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  • How High Fiber Foods Work In Favor Of Weight Loss
    Despite oodles of advice touting the next best thing in weight loss, one thing remains certain: high-fiber foods can help. In addition to promoting healthy blood sugar levels and even eliminating calories from the foods we eat, fiber interacts with a hormone called cholecystokinin (CCK) to provide some pretty neat benefits to those who want to shed the pounds.

    Many people are unaware that the small intestine produces this nifty little hormone that actually increases satiet...
  • High Fiber Foods For Healthy Aging
    Fiber and Brain Health

    As we age, our bodies begin to deteriorate. No matter how well we take care of ourselves, we become slower, more fragile, and our mental capacity suffers. The good news, however, is that a diet rich in high-fiber foods may help support brain and bone health—two of the most common concerns among elderly Americans.
    More than 4.5 million Americans suffer from Alzheimer’s disease, and every year more than 350,000 new cases are diagnosed in the United St...
  • Drink To Your Health: The Whole-body Benefits Of Water
    Before you reach for that sugary soft drink, consider this the next time you feel a little parched: Clean, pure water is essential to every function your body performs. Second only to the air you breathe in its vital importance, it makes up roughly two-thirds of your body. Deprived of it completely, you may not even survive a week. And even the mildest case of dehydration can cause fatigue, dizziness, headaches and muscle weakness. No wonder health experts are constantly tell...
  • Overcoming Constipation Naturally
    Constipation may be defined as infrequent or incomplete bowel movements often characterized by stools that are hard, dry and difficult to pass due to slow transit time through the gastrointestinal tract. Transit time is the amount of time that elapses between the ingestion of food and when it is excreted in the form of stool.

    In conventional medical circles, it is considered “normal” to have a bowel movement as infrequently as three times each week, but many holistic pract...

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