The daily recommended intake of sodium (i.e. salt) is less 1 teaspoon per day. Now keep in mind that when you're cooking a dish for 4 people, the salt that you add gets divided 4 different ways so chances are that not many people will answer yes to "Are you eating too much salt." Most of the time, the question of "are you eating too much salt" comes into play if you are eating a lot of junk food or...
US News and World Report just announced their list of Best Diets 2012 with the DASH Diet taking the #1 spot as the Best Diet of 2012. 25 diets were voted on by 22 health professionals and the Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension or DASH was the one to take the top spot. That's right - a diet that was designed to stop hypertension actually beat out overall diets. Not surprising if you look at the details to find that...
Health myths exist because people refuse to listen to reason. The body needs carbohydrates for energy to live. In fact, the dietary guidelines for Indians recommends around half the person's daily nutrition intake should be from carbohydrates. Then how does it make sense to believe that you can't eat carbohydrates if you want to lose weight? Yet the myth persists - people cut out rice from their diet, they stop eating their morning toast and they look fondly at the...
If you're somebody who gets tummy upsets very often then the answer to does your diet include dietary fibre is most definitely "No, it does not." Dietary fibre is that portion of plant foods that has two functions: Either they help in keeping you full (ensuring that you do not constantly feel hungry, thus eliminating the need to snack between meals) or it helps in keeping the digestive function regular. Dietary fibre along with sufficient amount of water intake contributes...
Today's Google Doodle celebrates vitamin C discoverer Albert Szent-Györgyi's birthday with a bright orangy doodle. Born in 1893, he received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "For his discoveries in connection with the biological combustion process with special reference to vitamin C and the catalysis of fumaric acid" in 1937. Stopping short of curing the common cold, vitamin C is associated with preventing immune system deficiencies, cardiovascular disease, prenatal health problems, eye disease, and even skin wrinkling. So, as...
Yes - cooked tomatoes are healthier than raw tomatoes when you're talking about its anti-oxidant properties. The oldest rule of thumb says that raw fruits and vegetables are the healthiest because cooking destroys a lot of the nutrients very quickly and most cooked vegetable dishes have very little nutritional value left in them. So tomato is an exception to everything - not only is it not actually a vegetable, cooked tomatoes are healthier than raw tomatoes as long as you're...
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