Nutrient Balance As Sensed By The Brain

There is no doubt that eating a balanced diet is essential for maintaining a healthy body weight as well as appropriate arousal and energy balance, but the details about how the nutrients we consume are detected and processed in the brain remain elusive…

The Balanced Diet: What It Means And Why It’s Important

Whether you have diabetes or are just trying to make healthy choices, you’ve probably heard that you should follow “a balanced diet.” But what is a balanced diet? Diabetes Forecast, the consumer magazine of the American Diabetes Association, seeks to answer that question and share helpful recipes in its June 2011 issue, which focuses on summer cooking and eating…

Live Well & Live Longer With Foods For Healthy Aging

Whether you are in your 20s, 40s, 80s or beyond, research shows that people who eat a balanced diet, don’t smoke, and exercise regularly lead longer, healthier lives. Making improvements to your lifestyle at any age can help you reduce your risk of chronic disease and improve your overall health. Aging can take a toll on many parts of your body, including eyes, bones, muscles, heart and mind…

Food as Medicine

Food as Medicine “Let your food be your medicine, and your medicine be your food.” – Hippocrates Obtaining or maintaining good health begins from the ground up. We can only be as healthy as what we choose to water and feed our body. Supplements vs. Food Do we really need to choose? The USDA has […]

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