Category: Diet & Nutrition

The Keto Diet has become huge over the last several years and more people have an interest in trying it. The results are staggering, so no wonder it might be tempting switching up one’s usual meal plan for one rich in fat. This diet showed its efficacy not only in weight loss, but it also…

Table of Contents How Many Calories are required? Keep It Heart-Healthy Watch Calcium Intake Nutrition And The Aging Adult Dietary Requirements Fiber, Vitamin D And Calcium There are huge physical, emotional, social and intellectual changes happening during your teen (adolescent) years. These changes all impact how one feels about what they eat and their nutritional…

All athletes try to increase their performance and very often they subscribe to ergogenic aids. Dietary nutritional supplementation for a long time has been a method of performance improvement. Huge amounts of money are spent annually on the so called performance enhancing products. It seems that when athletes and their trainers try to experiment with…

The current view on obesity is that the focus should be on rehabilitating obese patients and cultivating preventative behaviors that they can instill in themselves and their children to stop weight gain from becoming a problem in the first place. Because of this focus on rehabilitation, methods such as exercise and diet programs, and counseling…

‘Healthful eating’ implies a balanced diet which provides the nutritional needs of persons (www.tipsandtreats.com). The consumption of healthful foods substantially reduces the threat of chronic diseases including heart disease, diabetes, osteoporosis and also cancers. Diets high in fruits, vegetables and whole grains and low in saturated fat and salt can make big differences in health.…

Sports nutrition is an extremely complex subject particularly for sports persons who aspire to achieve the best athletic performance by looking for a balanced, healthy and at the same time, gratifying diet. In order to comprehend the role of nourishment for supreme performance in sports, it is essential to take a simplified view of the…

There was a time when the only type of grill available for cooking was the charcoal barbeque stove. But today, portable gas grills are found to be the most common type of grill in residences. A gas grill is simply a grill that uses gas from a tank or a natural gas line for fuel.…

Obesity is defined by most people simply as a person who is fat. That definition holds a little bit of the actual truthful definition of the word. In reality, obesity is the result of excess proportion of total body fat and is usually calculated using the body mass index formula. A person is overweight once…

Table of Contents Introduction Managing triglycerides Diet to reduce triglycerides: Exercise to Reduce Triglycerides References Introduction Triglycerides are the chemical form of fat that is present in human body. The carbohydrates, proteins and fat that we consume are utilized for various functions in the body in the form of calories. However the excess of these…

There are enormous advantages of milk consumption but the controversies surrounding the consumption match the benefits. Milk is the white substance synthesized in the mammary glands of all female mammals. It contains many nutritional elements except iron and its products and by-products are of huge benefits to the human body. Milk usage dates back to…