Nutrition

Starchy foods often have a bad reputation, but are you aware that there are different kinds of starch in food? One in particular, amylose, can actually help your body to maintain a healthy gut and ...

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Is sugar bad for you? While natural sugars are necessary, it's no secret that excess sugar is detrimental to health. In fact, a high-sugar diet has been associated with a slew of health conditions, from ...

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What is nux vomica? Well, there is a Nux Vomica band, but I'm talking about nux vomica as in the homeopathic medicine that — despite known dangers — is used for a range of common ...

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Elemental is defined as "primary or basic, related to or embodying the powers of nature." The elemental diet is a medical dietary strategy that uses very simple food solutions to provide essential nutrients, without adding a ...

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Nestled in parts of Europe and the Mediterranean lives a plant that looks, at first glance, like a disproportionate holly bush, but which packs some great circulatory benefits. I’m talking about butcher's broom, the small ...

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With the new year comes a host of health-related resolutions: exercise more frequently, perhaps cut out unhealthy ingredients like artificial sweeteners or maybe even reduce screen time and nomophobia. There’s one resolution, however, that’s often overlooked, ...

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Since its discovery more than three decades ago, gellan gum has become a common additive in the food, beverage, personal care, industrial cleaners and paper-production markets, especially over the past 15 years. According to KP Celco, ...

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Vanilla extract is widely used in both commercial and domestic baking, perfume manufacturing and aromatherapy, but many people don't realize the array of health benefits that come from using vanilla oil, even though it is not ...

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Across America, food "scraps" are often trimmings, skins and seeds tossed in the garbage. But as I started investigating these "waste products," I quickly found many of these actually serve as edible food parts with ...

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After being demonized for much of the 90s, dietary fats have made a strong comeback over the past two decades. Most people now realize that including healthy fats in their diet is important for many ...

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