Nutritional planning involves balancing macronutrients, understanding calorie formulas, and identifying the functional properties of whole foods to manage weight and chronic conditions effectively.
Vitamin A provides health benefits that extend beyond ensuring healthy vision. This fat-soluble vitamin plays an important role in immunity and red blood cell formation. You can get vitamin A from your diet or a supplement. You can also find it as an ingredient in some skincare products in the form of retinol.
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One of the numerous functions of everyday life for your body is maintaining the internal balance or homeostasis of the body. Your body has several mechanisms for controlling its internal environment -- from temperature control to energy production to urine production.
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If you suffer from frequent night urination, you may want to monitor the sodium content of your diet. Sodium has a direct impact on how your body manages water. This role affects all aspects of body function from blood pressure to pH control to proper digestion.
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Fruits provide a variety of nutrients including vitamins A, C, K and the B-complex vitamins. These vitamins play several essential roles in the body and are vital for proper function. Health conditions may arise primarily due to deficiencies in one or more nutrients.
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A fever is a defense response of the immune system to fight infectious diseases. Its purpose is to create an inhospitable environment for the disease-causing agent to help the body destroy it. Other conditions might also cause an elevation in body temperature, such as sunburn, some medications and immunizations.
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Probiotics and antacids can provide relief from gastrointestinal symptoms, albeit stemming from very different causes. Each of these supplements acts on naturally-occurring processes within the body to either enhance an effect or to neutralize its consequences.
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Your diet has a direct impact on how well your body functions. What you eat helps provide the nutrients that your body cannot manufacture on its own or those it does not store.
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Protein provides the necessary materials for the body to build and repair tissue, and produce hormones, among other vital functions. Most Americans get more than adequate amounts of protein in their diet, making deficiencies rare. Adult women should get 46 grams per day, adult men 56 g.
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The foods you eat provide the raw materials for energy production and body function. Your body reacts differently to the foods you eat based on their chemical composition. High-carbohydrate foods provide a good source of energy. These foods are especially beneficial if they are also low in sugar.
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Both green tea and ginger have been touted for their health benefits, which scientific evidence does support. They have a long history of use as culinary and medicinal products coupled with a rich array of folklore. Ginger was believed to be a preventive for death by poison.
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Both magnesium and vitamin B6 are essential nutrients for proper body function. Each nutrient plays a role in different body processes. Their chemical differences determine how each will be used by the body.
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If you have high blood pressure or are at risk, you may be concerned about the sodium in your drinking water. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that one in three American adults has high blood pressure.
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Water purification is a two-step process of disinfecting water and removing contaminants. Coliform bacteria are one type of impurity that might be present in your water. It is one of about 90 contaminants that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency monitors for its drinking water standards.
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Nature has adapted to pollution and stresses in the environment which have influenced the evolution of the natural water purification process. Both natural and man-made impacts can affect water quality.
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The ability of the body to use zinc and calcium is dependent upon their absorption. Most absorption of minerals occurs in the small intestine, explains the National Digestive Diseases Information Clearinghouse. Once absorbed, these two vital nutrients can carry out their roles in body function.
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The term pH is a measure of the concentration of hydrogen ions in a diluted solution. It can range from 0 to 14, with 7 denoting a neutral value. Acidic water has a pH below 7; alkaline water, above 7. The health effects of pH on drinking water depend upon where the pH falls within its range. The U.S.
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Grapefruit is high in vitamin C, soluble fiber, and antioxidants which makes it a good addition to any diet. A 2006 study in the "Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry" found that grapefruit can help lower blood triglyceride levels, especially in patients suffering from coronary artery disease.
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If you regularly eat salmon, you are probably well aware of the potential health effects of mercury. Typically, salmon is available as wild or farm raised.
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