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Can dietary choices help relieve menstrual cramping and heavy periods?
Painful menstrual cramping and heavy periods can be largely attributed to chemicals called prostaglandins which promote inflammation. Prostaglandins are also associated with the constriction of blood vessels,...
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Seven Ways Salt Impacts our Health
With respect to sodium intake, the best advice may be to wait until we're seated at the table to shake on the salt -- if we choose to salt our food at all. Most of us like the flavor of salt. If we haven't been diagnosed with high blood pressure, is...
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Is Your Bad Breath Caused by Foods High in Sulfur?
Let's face it...halitosis, or bad breath...stinks! Approximately 60% of Americans complain of having bad breath. This common condition creates much social anxiety and can certainly hinder one's personal relationships. If you've searched the Internet...
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How do the Majority of Heart Attacks Occur?
Because heart disease is called "the silent killer," many patients aren't aware that they have cardiovascular disease until they experience chest pain or have their first heart attack. In fact, 64% of women and 50% of men who have suffered a major...
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Mushrooms Offer Protection Against Cancer
Several types of cancers are hormone-sensitive, meaning they use female/male hormones to develop and metastasize. Most breast and prostate cancers are hormone-sensitive. In an attempt to stop the progression of cancer, pharmaceutical companies have...
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Antioxidant-Rich Foods Dilate Arteries
In 1998, a pivotal discovery earning the Nobel Prize in Medicine, led to the discovery of a "miracle molecule" called Nitric Oxide (NO) . The Nitric Oxide molecule is a gas which is produced inside the endothelial lining of all blood vessels. The...
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Can a Plant-Based Diet be Used to Detox?
The New Year brings with it an opportunity to think about ways in which to improve our lives. Eating healthier and losing those unwanted pounds is the most common New Year's resolution. In an attempt to start fresh, and "cleanse" the body, many turn to...
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Endothelial Cells to the Rescue!
If you're familiar with Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn Jr., world famous and renowned author of Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease , then you're familiar with the term "edothelial cells" and the role these cells play in the prevention of heart disease. The...
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Avoiding Fried Foods Reduces Cancer Risk
muscles of chickens and fish are cooked at that temperature." Deep-fried plant foods form acrylamides, which may cause inflammation as well, resulting in cancer progression. Acrylamide is a "neurotoxic industrial chemical used in the plastics industry"...
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Incredible Egg? or Incredible Marketing?
Scrambled, fried, hard boiled, or poached - there's a way to prepare eggs to satisfy even the pickiest of eaters. I'm sure many people have fond memories of eating bacon and eggs for breakfast with their families on weekend mornings. Eggs are heavily...
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Low-Carb Diets Impair Blood Flow
War" (6) "Low Carbohydrate Diets are Unhealthy and Dangerous" (7) "The Leaky Gut Theory of Why Animal Products Cause Inflammation" (8) "The Atkins Scientific Research – Deceit and Disappointment" (9) PubMed - " Effect of a single high-fat meal on...
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True Hunger vs Toxic Hunger
and rich in high-calorie processed foods, sugar, animal products, and oils. This type of diet promotes oxidative stress, inflammation, and an accumulation of toxic metabolites. "When digestion is complete," Dr. Fuhrman says, "the body begins to mobilize...
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Impressive Results of the Biblical Daniel Diet
in blood pressure, cholesterol and insulin levels, insulin resistance, and C-reactive protein levels, a marker of inflammation within the body."
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Aspirin Benefits Without the Risks
Daily aspirin therapy is often recommended by physicians to reduce inflammation and the risk of heart attack and stroke. Recently though, researchers found that people who don't take aspirin have low levels of aspirin in their bloodstream. How did it...
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Sick Before Their Time: More Kids Diagnosed With Adult Diseases
be seen only in middle-aged adults. Years ago, physicians rarely saw children with hypertension, type 2 diabetes , joint inflammation, high cholesterol , and the beginning stages of heart disease , yet it is now considered normal for today's physician...
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Dietary Treatment for Painful Menstrual Periods
for this. For example, the micronutrient content and phytochemicals in a plant-based diet reduces and discourages inflammation. The high fiber content in whole plant foods also removes excess circulating estrogen which is associated with...
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salt
would like to stop using added salt to my meals. I read how it may inhibit healing from inflammation and want to include this step in my healing process. But my husband and son doesn't think it's safe to do this. They are worried about a deficiency...
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SALAD DRESSINGS
am trying to lose weight to reduce inflammation. Wondering what would make a healthy salad dressing.
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Allergies
Starch Smartest diet. But recently, I was reading about MSM (methylsulfonylmethane) and how it can be used to to reduce inflammation, improve immune system function and leaky gut sufferers--as well as allergy sufferers. Do you have any information on MSM?
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SNACKS
am following the Starch-Smartest program to lose weight and reduce inflammation. Usually I am fine between meals. I don't realy want to eat between meals. Any suggestions for if we get hungry?
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