Is Green Tea Good for Health

Whether or not green tea is good for health really comes to how you interpret good health to be. People claim green tea can do everything from fight obesity to reduce bad cholesterol to prevent cancer. The problems with these claims is that often it's impossible to isolate the effects of green tea from a person's diet and fitness routine. In other words, if you take 500 healthy individuals who eat right, exercise right and happen to all drink green...

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Drink Advice from the Dietary Guidelines for Indians

Yes, in addition to nutrition and weight loss, the 2011 edition of the Dietary Guidelines for Indians (i.e. the 2nd time it was EVER written) also provides us all with what and how much of what to drink. As with the rest of the advice, it's current and useful. You might think the "current" part to be a given but considering that the last time they published the Dietary Guidelines for Indians was over a decade ago, its an important...

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5 Low Calorie Cocktail Recipes [Web]

A big reason to not say "no" when you feel like a drink is deprivation inevitably leads to binging. Rather than go crazy on the weekend, you're better off having a drink when you feel like one. And the wonderful folks running the "internets" have made life even easier by providing us with low calorie cocktail recipes. And if 5 low calorie cocktail recipes aren't enough for you, then check our list of 100 calorie vodka and 100 calorie rum...

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Best of Cocktails in 2010

If you've been following the Drinks category of Healthy Living India, you would already be familiar with all the drinks on this list. What we tried to do all year is to put the focus on drinks that, from a pure calorie standpoint, won't undo all the hard work of the day or week. And we firmly believe that if you designate a day or two a month to drink, you're more likely to binge and binge on all the...

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100 Calorie Vodka Cocktail Recipes

The weekend is here and everyone gets another opportunity to undo all their hard work in one night of irresponsible drinking. The sad thing with vodka cocktails is that most of the good ones, Black Russians, Caipiroskas and Cosmopolitans are all around the 200 calorie mark. The classic Bloody Mary comes in at a moderate 118 calories. But if you're trying to keep the calories under control, you will have to sacrifice fancy for efficient. The idea here is to be clever and...

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Halloween Punch Recipes from the Web

It's Halloween and that means it's Halloween Punch Recipe time. Halloween 2009 featured a punch invention called Putrid Eyeball Halloween Punch. A deliciously morbid drink but perhaps a little undead on the calories i.e. something that would've required you to actively save some calories in order to enjoy it. So the idea for Halloween 2010 was to look for what the web had to offer for Halloween punch recipes that weren't so ghoulish on the calories. So I searched for...

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