Cacao Nibs – A Top 10 Superfood

Chocolate is often touted as a superfood, but the sugar it contains makes it a necessarily occasional treat for the healthy eater. Cacao nibs contain all the benefits of chocolate and none of the naughtiness. Peeled cacao beans, broken into small bits, have a bitter chocolate taste and can be sprinkled on to cereals for [...]

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Barley – A Top 10 Superfood

Barley’s ability to reduce cholesterol and blood sugar is slowly becoming appreciated. A 2004 study found that adults with moderately high levels of cholesterol who went on a low-fat diet began to improve only when barley was added to the menu. It’s also recommended for people with type 2 diabetes. Barley provides lignans, phytochemicals that [...]

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Acai berries – a top 10 superfood

Acai berries are an Amazonian rainforest berry that is reported to be the most antioxidant-rich food ever tested. Dark purple in color, the acai berry doesn’t look very impressive, but has quite a nice chocolatey taste. It is claimed that acai berries boost energy, cures hangovers and strengthens the immune system. It also protects your [...]

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Superfoods – The Top 10 Superfoods For Boosting Your Health

From Himalayan berries to Peruvian cabbage roots, there seems to be a new so-called superfood discovered every week. But are they as good for you as people claim? Let’s find out… Until recently, the concept of superfoods was limited to Pop-eye’s strength-giving spinach, and the belief that an apple a day kept the doctor away. [...]

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Viagra – its not just for improving your sex life

If your partner plucks up the courage to ask his GP for Viagra, he’s not just improving your sex life – it could reveal underlying health problems. It is 10 years since Viagra became widely available. Although controversial at the time, the little blue pill has transformed the sex lives of millions. But the drug [...]

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Downsides of Eating Foods High in Fiber

Some types of fiber interfere with your body’s ability to absorb important minerals such as iron and zinc. It is thought that your body adapts to a raised intake of fiber over time by increasing the percentage of these minerals absorbed in the intestine. But, if you are making a conscious effort to eat more [...]

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Can High Fiber Foods Help Lower Cholesterol

How does soluble fiber help to lower cholesterol and blood-sugar levels? The soluble fiber found in high fiber foods like apples and pears, plums and apricots; vegetables such as baked beans, peas and red kidney beans and porridge oats, literally grabs hold of cholesterol in your intestines and carries it out of your body. This [...]

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Why High Fiber Foods Essential To Health

Ever since the 1980s, when The F-Plan Diet exploded on to the scene, we’ve all known that high fiber foods are good for us and that we should all be trying to eat more of it. Audrey Eyton, author of that hugely popular slimming book, brought fibrous food into our modern-day consciousness by extolling its [...]

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