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Tips_Advice -
Whole Grains
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Any breakfast is better than no breakfast, but try not to have doughnuts or pastries all the time. They're high in calories, sugar, and fat. They also don't contain the nutrients a kid really needs. And if you have a doughnut for breakfast, you won't feel full for long.Foods made from grains are an important part of a healthy diet.From breads to cereals and from rice to popcorn, grains provide a nutritious source of carbohydrate. |
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Hazard -
Trans Fat
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Companies like using trans fats in their foods because they’re easy to use, inexpensive to produce, and last a long time. Trans fats give foods a desirable taste and texture.Partially hydrogenated oils are attractive to food manufacturers for several reasons. Partial hydrogenation reduces rancidity and consequently increases product shelf life and decreases refrigeration requirements Many restaurants and fast-food outlets use trans fats to deep-fry foods because oils with trans fats can be used many times in commercial fryers. |
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Diet -
Teens
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In fact, preschool-age children who are overweight before age 5 are five times more likely to be overweight at age 12 than those who were not overweight before age 5, a new study finds.Another data suggest that levels of physical activity decline precipitously in girls in the United States during adolescence. Although the decline in our study began at the outset of adolescence, its rate accelerated so that by the ages of 18 and 19 years, the majority of the girls engaged in virtually no habitual physical activities other than those performed during school. |
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Pregnancy -
Post- pregnancy
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The benefits of breast-feeding are well established. Breast milk contains the right balance of nutrients for your baby, and the antibodies in breast milk boost your baby's immune system. But in some cases, exclusive breast-feeding isn't possible or practical.Breast-feeding for at least four months helps boost your baby's immune system. Breast-feeding throughout the first year is ideal. Most breast-feeding mothers may wean their babies between ages 9 and 15 months.Milk has biologic specificity—meaning that every species of animal who breastfeeds their babies makes a milk that is unique for the young of that species.The amounts of nutrients change to match your baby's rapidly changing needs. The germs in the baby's environment, to which the mother has been exposed, cause the mother to produce antibodies to that germ, which are passed on to the breastfeeding infant. An infant may be breast fed by its own mother or by another lactating female. Breast milk may also be expressed and fed to a baby through a bottle and pasteurized donor human milk may be used. |
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Natural Source -
Fiber
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For thousands of years this Ispagula Husk has provided relief for many ailments involving the intestinal system. So, if any one not familiar with this term “Ispagula Husk”, then the first question will be arises, what is Ispagula Husk? It is the epidermis and the collapsed layers removed from the dried ripe seeds of Plantago ovata Forssk.(Fam: Plantaginaceac). The plant is a herbaceous annual indigenous to the Indian subcontinent and Iran. Ispagula Husk contains mucilage and hemicelluloses. Cold water extraction yields a polysaccharide which on hydrolysis yields D-xylose(46%), L-arabinose(7%) and the aldobiouronic acid(40%). Subsequent extraction with hot water removes a xylum composed of D-xylose(80%) and L-arabinose(14%). It looks pale buff brittle flakes, more or less lanceolate, up to 2 mm long and 1 mm wide at the centre, much broken into smaller fragments.  Image: Ispagula Husk |
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Natural Source -
Protein
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By contrast, eating too much animal protein has been directly linked to the formation of kidney stones and has been associated with cancer of the colon and liver. Also too much protein intake, could weaken the bones. Although more research is clearly needed to define the optimal amount of daily protein, these results suggest that long-term high-protein diets should be used with caution, if at all. |
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Natural Source -
Vitamins_minerals
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No acute illness occurs more often in the human being than the common cold. There is a variety of interesting research currently being done to treat/prevent the flu symptom as a whole. But all of the currently available preventive measure or the treatment can’t prove their affectivity up to the mark, except the vitamin C, which can improve the immune system of our body against the Flu virus. In the following points, I can tell you, why the medical science can’t justify all the excitement, that they have discover in the field of cold management excluding vitamin C. |
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Disease -
Cancer
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As you provide care to sick women and their families you may have the opportunity to teach them about nutrition. Everyone can benefit from this information, whether they are sick or healthy. Good nutrition can help caregivers and family members remain healthy, even when things are difficult for them. Eating right helps the body fight sickness. Good nutrition can help sick people feel better and healthy people stay healthy. |
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