Blueberries and Red Grapes
The sugar consumed by eating whole fruit is not the same as refined sugar contained in soda. And the nutrition content of fruit is beneficial. It has been noted that eating fruit does not aggravate blood sugar for diabetics like eating junk food. Blueberries, apples, grapes and grapefruit appear to be beneficial for diabetics. Blueberries and red grapes may work with vitamin D to boost immunity. (Source: Fixin' Healthcare)
Source: Fixin' Healthcare - September 18, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Source Type: blogs
Top 5 Foods to Help You Sleep Better and Stay Healthier
Many adults today suffer insomnia. If not that, they rarely have a restful night's sleep. They are usually restless, cannot seem to find a comfortable position to sleep in, and are easily distracted by odd sounds that are common at night. There are also people who get enough hours of sleep, and yet they wake up tired, sluggish, and wanting to crawl under the covers again.
The usual solutions are to get a prescription from a physician (for those who are diagnosed to be insomniacs), and to change the bed for a moderately softer mattress—preferably, ones stuffed with memory foam. Pillows that are too soft or too hard are a...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - September 18, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Adana Baro Tags: health and fitness self improvement diet insomnia productivity tips sleep sleep better Source Type: blogs
What I've Done for You Lately
This week I've written a number of new articles:
Low-Bacteria Diet
How Beneficial is a Low-Bacteria Diet?
How Do I Follow a Low-Fat Diet?
Healthy Ideas for Apricots
Healthy Ideas for Grapes and Raisins
Healthy Ideas for Grapefruit (Source: About.com Nutrition)
Source: About.com Nutrition - September 10, 2013 Category: Nutritionists and Food Scientists Source Type: blogs
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This week I've written a number of new articles:
Low-Bacteria Diet
How Beneficial is a Low-Bacteria Diet?
How Do I Follow a Low-Fat Diet?
What are the Six Classes of Nutrients?
Healthy Ideas for Apricots
Healthy Ideas for Grapes and Raisins
Healthy Ideas for Grapefruit (Source: About.com Nutrition)
Source: About.com Nutrition - September 10, 2013 Category: Nutritionists and Food Scientists Source Type: blogs
Fruit and Veggies – More Matters Month
September is Fruit & Veggies – More Matter Month. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) promotes healthier eating through this awareness campaign. Look for fresh, in-season fruits and vegetables like grapes, pomegranates, squash and Swiss chard. The CDC recommends filling half of your plate with fruits and vegetables. Find healthy recipe ideas, tips and facts about fruits and vegetables on the Fruits & Veggies – More Matters web site: http://bit.ly/19fIsmY. There’s even a Food Champs game and information center meant just for kids.
Make the most of the focus on childhood ...
Source: BHIC - September 3, 2013 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Gail Kouame Tags: Children and Teens Public Health Websites Source Type: blogs
Low-FODMAP Diet: A New Fad?
By Amy Campbell
Back in 2009 (can it really be that long ago?), I wrote a short series on irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). IBS is a condition (not a disease) characterized by a number of symptoms including bloating, cramping, gas, diarrhea, and constipation. About one in five Americans has IBS, and having it can range from being mildly annoying to downright debilitating. There are different kinds of treatments available, including changing one's diet, exercising, stress reduction, and medication.
A treatment from down under
People who have IBS will tell you that sometimes the above approaches work for them, and sometimes th...
Source: Diabetes Self-Management - September 3, 2013 Category: Diabetes Authors: Amy Campbell Source Type: blogs
Top stories in health and medicine, August 30, 2013
From MedPage Today:
Fruit Takes a Bite Out of Diabetes Risk. Eating more fruit, particularly apples, grapes, and blueberries, meant lower type 2 diabetes risk.
Congress Probing VA Bonuses to Doctors. A congressional committee is using a recent report questioning performance bonuses given to Department of Veterans Affairs physicians as reason to examine a range of pay-for-performance issues at the VA.
Financial Woes Muddle the Brain. Financial problems — real and theoretical — were associated with decreased cognitive skills among poor people.
Greater Array of Gut Bugs Points to Metabolic Health. People who hav...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - August 30, 2013 Category: Family Physicians Tags: News Diabetes Endocrinology GI Neurology Source Type: blogs
Fruit Skewers with Peanut Butter Dip Recipe & Enter to Win a $100 Walmart Gift Card
I love quick and easy recipes that get the entire family involved. These yummy fruit skewers with peanut butter yogurt dip are both easy to make and a fun way to get the kids involved in what they’re eating.
Try serving these skewers as a quick after-school snack or as dessert after dinner. Hey, with football season starting, you can even pass these around at your next tailgating party. It’s delicious and nutritious, leaving both parents and kids with a smile on their face!
Ingredients:
8 large strawberries, washed and stems removed
8 large green or red grapes, pulled off the stems
8 large pineapple chunks
1 (6 o...
Source: Balanced Health and Nutrition Rebecca Scritchfield's Blog - August 28, 2013 Category: Nutritionists and Food Scientists Authors: rebeccascritchfield Tags: cooking fruits nutrition recipes giveaway peanut butter produce quick vegetables Walmart Source Type: blogs
Building Unity Farm - The Trails
Unity Farm has a rich diversity of natural woodlands, wetlands, meadows, paddocks, and orchards. The house and barn are located on an upland plateau surrounded by white pine, sweet birch, poplar, white ash, red oak, and red maple. The woodlands to the south, west and north wrap the upper plateau. The woodland zone includes a forested wetland that collects the upland water and directs it to the north via a swale. To the east, the land is a grassy 6:1 slope from the top of the orchard to the edge of the forested wetland that connects to the meadow.Over a mile of trails connects the natural features....
Source: Life as a Healthcare CIO - August 15, 2013 Category: Technology Consultants Source Type: blogs
Work on Stereognosis with food.
The other day I was eating a cup filled with blueberries, cherries, and tiny grapes, while driving. I would reach into cup holder with right hand and keeping eyes on road, so it was all via stereognosis, ie eyeballs on my fingers, that I would know which gruit it was. I realized it was a great way to work with kids on stereognosis in an efficient and motivating and fun way. For example you could fill a cup with items like small twizzler bites and cocoa puffs and have the kid figure out which one he was grabbing if he couldn't see. You could incorporate a lot of descriptive words and ask questions about whether it feels lon...
Source: Occupational Therapy Students (B)e(LO)n(G) - August 6, 2013 Category: Occupational Therapists Source Type: blogs
Summer Dish You'll Love: Arugula and Chickpea Salad
If you guys are anything like me, you're totally loving light, cool salads during these hot summer months, right? Well we were able to exclusively snag another one for you from celeb chef Michael Symon, who teamed up with Dannon Oikos Greek Yogurt to create this unique- dish featuring chickpeas, grapes and fresh dill. You'll love how the cool, creamy Greek yogurt-based dressing pairs so well with the peppery arugula, savory chickpeas and juicy grapes. Think of it as your new bikini salad. (Source: The ND Blog: Notes from the Nutritionista by Monica Reinagel, L.D.N., C.N.S.)
Source: The ND Blog: Notes from the Nutritionista by Monica Reinagel, L.D.N., C.N.S. - July 26, 2013 Category: Nutritionists and Food Scientists Tags: Recipes diet food nutrition Source Type: blogs
The Healthful Vegan Diet
‘Let your food be your medicine, and your medicine be your food.’ ~Hippocrates
By Leo Babauta
Eat plants. Those two words are the best things I’ve learned about diet, and if you stick to that, you’re likely be pretty healthy.
That said, eating a vegan diet (no animal products) doesn’t necessarily equate to a healthy diet, despite what many believe.
Yes, vegans on average are healthier and leaner than the average person. But that’s an average — there are unhealthy vegans.
How is that possible? You can eat lots of sweets, fried foods, processed foods, foods with white flour (br...
Source: Zen Habits - July 25, 2013 Category: Life Coaches Authors: zenhabits Tags: Health & Fitness Source Type: blogs
Detrimental Effects From Dietary Antioxidant Supplementation
At this point the general consensus is that dietary supplementation of antioxidant compounds is of either no benefit or mildly harmful to long term health. The only methods of extending life via the introduction of antioxidant compounds involve careful targeting to the mitochondria, such that damaging oxidant molecules generated there are swept up, but the oxidant molecules used in signaling processes elsewhere in cells and tissues are not. The benefits of exercise, for example, rest upon slightly raised levels of reactive oxygen species which can be blocked by high levels of antioxidants in the diet:
In older men, a natu...
Source: Fight Aging! - July 22, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
Is Undiagnosed Pre-diabetes Highly Prevalent in Early Alzheimer’s Disease?
The number of people with glucose intolerance (pre-diabetes) was much higher than expected. I was surprised by how many people didn’t know they were pre-diabetic, and these are individuals who already get the best medical care.
+Alzheimer's Reading Room
When Georgetown University neurologist R. Scott Turner, MD, PhD, began enrolling people with mild to moderate Alzheimer’s disease into a nationwide study last year, he expected to find only a handful of participants with undiagnosed glucose intolerance, as all the patients were already under a doctor’s care and those with known diabetes were excluded.
But Turn...
Source: Alzheimer's Reading Room, The - July 15, 2013 Category: Dementia Authors: Bob DeMarco Source Type: blogs
Why a Wine's Region Matters, Imaginary (But Amazing) Running Inventions and More!
Everyone knows that not all wines are created equal, but this holds especially true when it comes to health benefits. Some regions actually produce grapes with much higher levels of antioxidants and polyphenols. See which regions produce the most healthful bottles. [Fox News]
All of you hardcore runners have probably imagined at least one of these brilliant inventions at some point. So can somebody actually create the runner's brake lights already?! [Runner's World] (Source: The ND Blog: Notes from the Nutritionista by Monica Reinagel, L.D.N., C.N.S.)
Source: The ND Blog: Notes from the Nutritionista by Monica Reinagel, L.D.N., C.N.S. - July 11, 2013 Category: Nutritionists and Food Scientists Tags: Afternoon Snack Greek yogurt alcohol feet fitness gear health nutrition running shoes wine Source Type: blogs
