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Supporting Your Gallbladder with Supplements
Vitamins A and C are just two of the nutrients your body requires to keep this important organ operating at peak performance. Whether you are plagued with gallstones or just want to head off any future problems with your gallbladder, a good diet with sufficient healthy fat and protein and reduced carbohydrate is essential, as Read More
Scientists Concerned with Plummeting Nutrient Levels
Nutrient levels in fruits, vegetables and some other food crops have declined dramatically over the past 50 years. New research indicates that the old maxim “you can get all the vitamins you need from food” is less and less true. Recent studies of vegetables, fruits and wheat have revealed a 5-35 percent decline in some Read More
Healthy Diet, Healthy Eyes
Macular degeneration is a condition of the eyes that leaves sufferers with only limited sight. Also known as AMD for age-related macular degeneration, it affects over 30 million people worldwide, and is the leading cause of blindness in people over 50. You might not think nutrition has anything to do with the eyes, but it Read More
Get the Most Out of Your Fruits and Veggies!
Fruits and vegetables are amazing- but the benefit you get from them may have a lot to do with what else you’re eating (or not eating). Almost everyone knows that eating more fruits and vegetables is one of the best ways to insure a long and healthy life and to lower the risk of cancer, Read More
Don’t Forget to Take Your Supplements
Vitamins and minerals are important for everyone. More and more doctors are treating their patients (whenever possible) with vitamin and mineral supplements in lieu of pharmaceuticals. Over the last two decades, thousands of physicians and more health practitioners have learned how to practice such nutritional pharmacology. Complementary medicine combines the best of conventional and alternative Read More
Discovering Soy Foods
The most complete vegetable protein, soy is also rich in vitamin E, fiber, calcium, magnesium, lecithin, riboflavin, thiamine, folate, iron and essential fatty acids. Here’s good news for people who don’t want to consume red meat, seafood or poultry with every meal: Soy protein is virtually complete, missing only the essential amino acid methionine. In Read More
Diet and age-related macular degeneration: expanding our view
In the current issue of the Journal (1), Chiu et al describe their observations of a new aspect of diet that may be related to one type and stage of age-related macular degeneration(AMD)of the eye: a diet that is high in foods with a high glycemic index. This aspect of the diet adds to the Read More
Can Foods Forestall Aging?
Scientists are excited about a new way of measuring the antioxidant power and health-promoting benefits of foods, and some foods are emerging as true superstars. Studies at the Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging (Tufts University in Boston) suggest that consuming fruits and vegetables with a high-ORAC value may help slow the Read More
Antioxidants, Vegetables and Heart Disease
The value of vegetables is a basic tenant of any healthy living approach, including the Atkins Nutritional Approach. The importance of vegetables- and the vitamins, minerals, fiber and nutrients they provide- has been so established by research that more research seems almost redundant. Yet the research just keeps coming. Recently, researchers at the University of Read More
Another Reason to get Antioxidants at Every Meal
A healthy intake of antioxidants is one of the guiding principles of the Atkins Nutritional Approach for robust good health. Antioxidants help protect cells and DNA from damage which not only ages us but also makes us more susceptible to disease. For that reason, maintaining high levels of protective antioxidants in your blood is an Read More