Nutritional planning involves balancing macronutrients, understanding calorie formulas, and identifying the functional properties of whole foods to manage weight and chronic conditions effectively.
Soccer is strenuous and requires a lot of physical stamina, and proper hydration will reduce your risk of injury as well as help you maintain peak fitness levels after the match.
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Folic acid supplements are given to pregnant women to reduce the likelihood of a neural-tube defect in their unborn children. Women are encouraged to take a vitamin with folic acid before becoming pregnant, but doctors recommend at the very least starting a vitamin regimen as soon as there is a positive pregnancy test.
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Some enthusiastic dieters may be tempted to seek out extreme weight loss plans to shed unwanted pounds as quickly as possible. Severe calorie restriction diets, such as the HCG method typically restrict dieters to 500 calories a day. Strict diets of fewer than 1,110 calories pose numerous health risks.
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Like the rest of your body, your brain depends on food to run at peak performance. That's why you may feel sharp as a tack after a healthy lunch and mentally sluggish on a junk-food diet. For peak mental function, include a wide variety of foods in your diet, as no one nutrient can provide everything your brain needs.
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While it's OK to eat Italian sausage, it's not the type of meat you should eat all the time or in large quantities. Made with pork and flavored with garlic and fennel or anise, Italian sausage -- whether sweet or spicy -- is high in calories, fat and sodium.
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The 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans recommend that you should get between 45 percent and 65 percent of your daily calorie intake in the form of carbohydrates.
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Cellulose is a thick, strong fiber that that gives vegetables and fruits their structural integrity. It is one type of dietary fiber that can be eaten but is not digested. Many fruits and vegetables are rich sources of cellulose.
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Many new moms-to-be look forward to their pregnancies with anticipation, but one thing most pregnant women do not welcome is the muscle pain that come with a burgeoning belly. Back aches are common, as is ligament pain around the abdomen.
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Vitamin B-12 helps maintain the health of your metabolism, red blood cells and nerves. When you have a vitamin B-12 deficiency, your doctor might prescribe vitamin B-12 shots, especially if you have an intestinal disorder that prevents the proper absorption of the vitamin.
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Lentils are a member of the legume family, and with their small, delicate shape and nutty flavor, they are a versatile bean. You can use lentils in soups, salads or as part of a side dish. Often sold dried, lentils are soaked in water before getting cooked.
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You shouldn't take iron supplements while consuming coffee because coffee inhibits iron absorption from both supplements and food.
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White rice lacks one of the elements known to support weight loss: fiber. It's a rich source of carbohydrates, which are essential for sustaining energy as you cut calories, but the carbs in white rice can cause a surge in blood sugar that undermines weight loss.
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When you consume more calories than your body needs, both carbs and fats end up stored in muscles and in other areas throughout the body. The body stores dietary fats in the form of triglycerides, whether in muscles or fat cells. Carbs are first turned into glycogen, which is stored in the liver and muscles.
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Whey protein is often included in supplements marketed for weight loss and muscle gain. A 2001 study published in "International Journal of Sports Nutrition and Exercise Metabolism"
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Despite being composed mostly of sugar, natural honey has properties that make it a better sweetener than table sugar.
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That soft noodle filling the bowl of your Vietnamese pho is not spaghetti but vermicelli rice noodles. These noodles, made from ground rice, are found throughout Asia and are used in a number of different cuisines including Thai and Chinese, in addition to Vietnamese.
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Drinking a sweet and spicy beverage may warm you up and satisfy a need for something honeyed, but it may not detox your body of harmful substances or promote weight loss as claimed.
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Ten percent to 15 percent of adults in the United States experience the abdominal pain and bowel irregularity caused by irritable bowel syndrome, according to the National Institute of Digestive and Diabetes and Kidney Diseases. Finding ways to manage the disease not only improves symptoms but life quality as well.
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Many people have changed their shopping habits to take advantage of savings reaped by purchasing large pack sizes. If you have recently purchased food in bulk, you have discovered that although it stretches your budget further, you have a new problem to solve.
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Lavender is appreciated for its blue-violet flowers and light fragrance, but this plant also serves medicinal purposes.
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