Food Sources of Vitamin C, Vitamin C Supplements Benefits

While the grapefruit diet was a popular fad diet of the 80s and 90s, recent research shows that vitamin C ingredients of grapefruits, in addition to a myriad of other fruits and vegetables, provides consumers with incredible fat burning benefits. When consumed in natural or juice states, or even if consumed in a supplemental form, [...]

The Benefits Of Green Tea

Green Tea has become the latest buzzword in terms of good health. Its nutritional and medical benefits have in fact, been discovered in China and Japan several thousands of years ago, but has just recently become popular in the West. Containing just a quarter of the caffeine found in coffee, green tea made from unfermented [...]

The Benefits of a Vegetarian Diet

The benefits of a vegetarian diet range from reduced rates of obesity, hypertension and coronary heart disease, to lower incidences of diet-related cancers, diverticular disease, type II diabetes, constipation and gall stones.
In 1997, The World Cancer Research Fund recommended opting for a diet rich in fruits, vegetables and legumes, and decreasing the intake of processed [...]

The Benefits Of Eating Broccoli

In 1992 a researcher at Johns Hopkins University announced the discovery of a compound found in broccoli that not only prevented the development of tumors by 60 percent in the studied group, but it also reduced the size of tumors that did develop by 75 percent. Broccoli is now one of the best-selling vegetables in [...]

Benefits Of Eating A Low Cholesterol Diet

The liver makes most of the cholesterol in the body, but dietary cholesterol plays an important role in controlling all the cholesterol levels in the body. The levels include the total cholesterol and the good and bad cholesterol.
Good cholesterol, the HDL (high-density lipoproteins), protects the heart by helping to transport excess cholesterol from the arteries [...]

Benefits Of High Fiber Diet

A high fiber diet is a popular choice amongst health conscious individuals these days because of the possible benefits and advantages that it can give you. A high fiber diet usually contains food with high fiber. Fibers are undigested carbohydrates. Our enzymes are unable to break them down and therefore fibers are not absorbed into [...]

Benefits of eating vegetables – cooked or raw

With the right vegetables, however, you can eat as many as you want how many times you want it and not gain a pound. Exercise caution, however, by picking the right kinds of vegetables, as not all can keep you slim. This is because there are vegetables that are high in calories while there are [...]

Benefits Of Brussel Sprouts

Brussel Sprouts are very important nutritionally because they have a long season and are one of the top providers of vitamin C, a cupful weighing 100g (4oz) will give, when raw, over 100mg of vitamin C, which is more than twice as much as the same weight of orange.
After boiling, the vitamin C goes down [...]