Ramen noodles won’t be winning any healthy food awards, but you can incorporate them into an overall diet of healthy eating. These Japanese-style noodles, sold in colorful packages in supermarkets everywhere, can become a bit more beneficial with some creativity and common sense.
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Eggs often have a bad reputation, thanks to their high amounts of cholesterol and fat. While eggs' high cholesterol content only presents a health risk to a subset of the population -- those sensitive to dietary cholesterol -- using egg whites in place of whole eggs still offers health benefits.
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Even if your baby’s hiccups are driving you to the brink of insanity, they are likely not annoying your infant and are not a life-threatening condition, Healthy Children says. Babies often get hiccups, particularly during feeding times, when their diaphragm goes into a spasm.
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Vitamin C is a vital vitamin, but too much of it can prove harmful to kids. Any children’s therapeutic diet that contains extreme doses of vitamin C puts up a red flag, as do the tablets themselves.
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Your knee joints are a hinge-style joint, and are meant to bend and straighten in one direction. There are many muscles around the knee that create force and exert pull on the knee joint. These forces and pulls can move the knee out of its intended movement path, which can create pain and injury.
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A sneeze is the body's reaction to an irritant or allergen. Sometimes you sneeze and the irritation is gone; however, if you have an allergy, your body releases histamine. This results in multiple symptoms that may include sneezing, coughing, a runny nose or swollen eyes.
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Sodium bicarbonate has many uses. Medicinally, it reduces stomach acid and can be taken after meals as an antacid to prevent heartburn and indigestion. It's a fizzy tablet dissolved in water, commonly known as Alka Seltzer.
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Aloe Berry Nectar, marketed and manufactured by Forever Living Products, contains aloe vera gel, apples -- including the pectin -- and cranberries. Lightly sweetened with fructose, each 8-oz serving has 120 calories, 60mg of sodium and 30g of carbohydrates.
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Candida, a form of yeast, is a fungal overgrowth in your system that can cause fatigue, weight gain, joint pain and symptoms similar to irritable bowel syndrome. Candida live in the digestive system, but can break through the wall of the intestine and get into the bloodstream and spread throughout the body.
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Sodium nitrite is used in curing meats to preserve color, add flavor, prevent fats from going rancid and stop botulism spores from becoming toxic. For example, a roasted leg of pork is brown, but add sodium nitrite and it becomes ham - pink, salty with a totally different flavor.
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Liberte is a Canadian company that started producing cheese in 1928 in Montreal. In 1964 the company started to make yogurt and now produces a variety of cow and goat milk dairy products. Liberte yogurts are made from “rBGH free” milk from the Champlain Valley in Vermont.
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Calcium aspartate anhydrous is an organic calcium compound based on L-aspartic acid and is a form of calcium supplementation. There is some evidence that calcium aspartate anhydrous has a much higher absorption rate than other calcium supplements -- 92 percent.
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Fenugreek is used as a spice in food preparation as well as taken as an herbal supplement. First used medicinally by the Egyptians, fenugreek eases congestion when brewed into a tea. Drinking water that fenugreek seeds have been soaked in may dissolve mucus in your lungs, throat and sinuses.
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Oat bran is the outer husk of the oat grain, which is high in beta-glucan, a type of soluble fiber that can decrease cholesterol if consumed on a daily basis, according to Canadian nutritionist Leslie Beck, RD. A half cup of oat bran cereal contains 3g of beta-glucan and may help decrease the risk of heart disease.
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Glutathione is a powerful antioxidant created by your cells to fight destructive free radicals. Glutathione helps create lymphocytes, the cells of your immune system, which keep your body's defenses strong and producing antibodies.
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Bragg's Raw Apple Cider Vinegar is an unpasteurized organic apple cider that contains protein enzymes, which give the vinegar a cloudy appearance. These live cultures help alkalize the body, and like probiotics, replenish beneficial bacteria that crowd out yeast.
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Coconuts may be classified as a nut, seed and a fruit -- but don't confuse coconut water with coconut milk. Coconut water is the thin liquid in the center of a young green coconut; coconut milk is made by mashing the meat of the coconut with water to make a thick pulp, which is then cooked.
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A coronary calcium scan, also known as a heart scan, measures the amount of calcium deposited in the arteries of your heart. The more coronary calcium you have, the higher your levels of plaque, which may lead to atherosclerosis, or the hardening and narrowing of your arteries.
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Limiting sugar and other simple carbohydrates can force your body to use stored fat instead of glucose for energy. When your body has to use stored fat for fuel, you lose weight.
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Probiotics are "good" bacteria that live in your gut and aid in digestion. The World Health Organization says probiotics are "live microorganisms, which, when administered in adequate amounts, confer a health benefit on the host."
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