‘Nutrition’ Category
Absorbing Iron
Iron occurs in two forms in food. Some is bound into heme, the iron containing part of the hemoglobin and myoglobin in meat, poultry, and fish. Some is nonheme iron, found in foods from plants and in the nonheme iron in the meat. The form affects the absorption. Heme iron is much more reliably absorbed [...]
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Osteoporosis: Can Lifestyle Choices Reduce The Risk?
It's estimated that 44 million people in the United States, (the majority of them women over 50) have or are developing osteoporosis. Each year, a million and a half people, (30% of them men) break a hip, leg, ankle or other bone as a result of having osteoporosis. Of these hip fractures prove the most [...]
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Why Be Physically Active?
Why should people bother to be physically active? While a person's daily food choices can powerfully affect health, the combination of nutrition and physical activity is more powerful. People who are physically active can expect to enjoy a list of benefits which include: Reduced risk of cardiovascular disease, increased cardiovascular endurance, increased muscle strength and [...]
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How Much Protein Do People Really Need?
For adults, the DRI recommended intake is set at 0.8 grams for each kilogram (or 2.2lbs) of body weight. For example: weight = 130lbs. 130lbs divided by 2.2 = 59kg multiplied by 0.8 = 47 grams. Protein recommendations are based on nitrogen excreted from the body with nitrogen ingested in food. The DRI does not [...]
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Cardiovascular Disease
In the United States today, almost 80 million men and women suffer from some form of disease of the heart and blood vessels, and almost a million people die from these causes each year. At the root of most forms of cardiovascular disease (CVD) is atherosclerosis also known as hardening of the arteries. A diet [...]
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