This is one fairy-tale that refuses to die. Vitamins are not found loose in the soil just waiting for plants to soak them up into their roots. Plants make vitamins from several building blocks in the soil. Minerals are taken up from the soil, but if there is a deficiency in a mineral needed for […]
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Why Eating Nutrient-Poor Food and Making Up the Difference with Supplements, Will Not Promote Your Health or Success. Read these articles too: Why would you need supplements when eating Nutrient Rich? Aren’t all the nutrients in the food you’re eating? The Supplementation Myth The marketplace is full of “scientifically-formulated” or “clinically-proven” supplements to reduce your
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#2 The “Everything in Moderation” Trap: Why does this seemingly sound principle fail us when it comes to eating? This trap is particularly effective at snaring the unwary eater because it’s regularly passed off as a principle. “Moderation in everything” is used to end nutritional discussions before they begin, as if it were a “universal
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Trap #1: “The Ultimate Diet Trap: Eat Less, Exercise more” If you’re overweight, eating less makes sense, at least on the surface. Why is it a trap? Because both overeating and under-exercising are effects, not causes. So let’s focus on why do we overeat? 1. Most of us are chronically exhausted and overwhelmed, so we
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Every diet has something valuable to offer in terms of learning, and yes you can learn from going on every diet. It seems many people actually do this; not you, but other people. And we’ll go as far as saying that sometimes this is helpful. Sometimes you can’t appreciate the real thing or the right thing, until
Being diet trapped is the foundation of dieting; the act of manipulating your food, eating less of nutrient poor foods that don’t serve your nutrient needs to begin with, or eating substitutes for real food, doesn’t work! What most people don’t know is what it means to be diet trapped. This is different from the act of
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Happy Thanksgiving! Tomorrow kicks off the Nutrient Rich Holidays and for most of us and this means lots of food! Do you find it difficult to eat healthy during the holidays? If so, you are not alone. Most people find it hard to resist the pies and the candies amidst all the homemade foods that
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15389873/ …and you all thought it was a joke when they said broccoli was good for the libido! Well, it seems that all those green vegetables that a lot of men shun, could improve your virility more than you realize. Men who don’t get enough produce have lower sperm motility, study says "Men hoping to
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http://www.forbes.com/forbeslife/health/feeds/hscout/2006/10/20/hscout535636.html More and more evidence is coming out to show that the problem with our nutrition is not so much in the amount we eat but the quality of what we eat. Tufts University determined that the ingestion of refined carbohydrates directly correlated to an increase in abdominal fat. Now studies coming out of Milan,
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I am a gadget geek, especially when it comes to kitchen gadgets and if they are time saving gadgets, even more so! I finally parted company with my worn out non-stick pots and replaced them with a set where the lids actually form a seal. How amazing is that? I even invested in a slow
