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Lactose intolerance in the United States

admin — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 03:20:45 +0000

It is believed that thirty and fifty million Americans are are lactose intolerant. Lactoste intolerance is the inability to digest the main sugar found in milk. It is sometimes hard to diagnose.
The embarrassing and sometimes painful symptoms can range from mild to severe, and depend on many factors. There are a few ways that lactose intolerance can be diagnosed, even in infants.
There are some well known causes of lactose intolerance, and some not so well known causes. Lactose intolerance is common but it need not detract from a person’s ability to live a healthy life.

As many as eighty to 100 percent of African Americans, Native Americans and Asian Americans are lactose intolerant to some degree. It is treated with limiting trigger foods, or taking a
lactase enzyme supplement with the first bite of food. The most well known cause of lactose intolerance is that as a person ages their body naturally produces less lactase. People who are lactose
intolerant need to ensure that they eat enough foods that contain calcium, as this is one of the main nutrients the body receives from dairy products. Living life with lactose intolerance is not hard but
takes knowledge and dedication.

What Makes a Food A SuperFood?

admin — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 22:56:53 +0000

You here the word superfood get thrown around a lot today. You here it most when people refer to nutrition products. So the question is what does it mean and how does it effect people who eat or drink these superfoods? There is no hard and fast definition for what qualifies a food as a superfood but there is some general rules of thumb that have to be met before a food is considered for this title. A lot of foods are very high in one certain area but lack in others. Superfoods have to be high and rich in many nutritional areas not just one. They also have to this way with out any doctoring or extra things being added to boost nutritional levels. Many other things go into considering a food for superfood status. Some of which we will talk about in later posts.

Experience Wellness with long term Nutrition

admin — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 22:37:50 +0000

A lot of people decide to one day to flip the nutrition switch. Which means that they go from eating drive thru and drinking soda almost every night to drinking water and only eating salads. The fact is that 90% of all people that do this fail. One of the main reasons for this is because you can not just decide to shock your body by doing a 180 degree turn on the type of food you eat. A better way to do it is to sit down and decide that you are going to take 2 or 3 days a week and eat healthy and the other nights you just might decide not to. The point is to ease your body into this new habit of eating healthy so it can get used to it and not throw fits when it doesn’t get what it is used to. If you take this approach, most likely you will find the transition much easier.

Cooking in order to Experience Wellness

admin — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 21:53:57 +0000

Many people realize that they need to eat right in order to keep their lives healthy. One of the biggest problems that we face today, is that when people think about eating healthy they always get a bad taste in their mouth. However thanks to the digital age, it is extremely easy to get a hold of easy to prepare healthy meals that everyone in the family will love. It is as simple as going to google and typing in easy healthy meals. If you are not sure how do to that please feel free to click on the link.

Acai Juice has many benefits

admin — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 20:07:46 +0000

One of the great benefits of acai juice is that it is rich in the mineral calcium. Most people think of milk when calcium is mentioned. How ever with Acai you do not have to drink as much to get your recomend daily dose. It also works great for those who are lactose intolerant. Because you have to consume much less of it the amount of calories that you have to ingest goes way down when you get your calcium from Acai Juice instead of milk, which makes weight loss that much easier.

Goji Berries are powerful Superfood

admin — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 18:32:28 +0000

The goji berry has become very popular in the west over the past 6 years. It is mainly consumed in a dried berry form or in a juice form. Which ever way you decide to consume this tiny little berry it is claimed to have amazing healing properties. One of the reasons that it has become so popular is the amount of antioxidants that it contains. In fact goji berries contains so many great beneficial properties that some even call it the most nutritious food source on the planet. If you would like to learn more about this great fruit click on the goji berries link.

Mangosteen Fruit

admin — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 22:26:25 +0000

The mangosteen is another fruit that has been said to have medicinal purposes. The fruit is said to have properties that can help with issues such as diarrhea, bladder infections, and gonorrhea. It is even said an ointment was created from the fruit that could be applied to skin rashes and decrease their severity. There has been hot debate over whether or not such folklore has any real evidence and while there has not been any displayed as of yet there has not been any to say that the sayings are false either.

Acai Juice Named Number One Superfood By Oprah

admin — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 20:00:41 +0000

On her show Oprah Winfrey has named Acai Juice as the number one superfood on the market. The reasons for this is because acai is very high in antioxidants which have been said to help the body with many things. This berry comes from the amazon rain forest so finding the fresh berry is hard to do in the US. The two most common forms of acai is powder and juice.

Experience Wellness

admin — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 21:11:04 +0000

We wish the best health to everyone. People should have the right to be informed and educated on and about the foods and supplements they take. This site has been brought to you by people that are just like you and would like to have all the information we can about certain products. Please stay tuned so we can grow our knowledge about nutrition together.