Creating your weekly menu plan can be a great way to incorporate a healthy lifestyle into your home. You can also save a great deal of time when you know in advance what you are eating and what you need to prepare. For healthy living and effective time management, try creating your own menu plans.

When you are trying to stick with a healthy lifestyle you will want to be sure that you are eating the right foods. When you make use of a weekly meal planner you will be able to...

Recently, a controversy has developed over antioxidants and alkaline fruits and their effects on cancer. Specifically, some believe that cancer can be treated by consuming alkaline fruits and vegetables.

Many web merchants claim that an alkaline body may be able to significantly fight the pH of malignant cancer cells until they die. According to doctors, the claims of such merchants are false. Doctors from the Mayo Clinic, one of the world's most renowned medical treatment...

If you have been to the grocery store lately, you know that you can't walk by an isle without reading such labels as "enriched," "fortified," "natural," "Organically grown," etc. However, these types of product labels are often misleading and false. As a consumer, it is important to explore both sides of the product packaging and to be aware of false food labeling. There are certain key words which we can comfortably trust when it comes down to...

Why is it that you want to lose that thigh fat? Because thigh fat is often considered to be unsightly, right?

Tremendous anguish and frustration can be caused by this not-so-pretty thigh fat. The fact is that there are millions of people who are overweight and many more on the way to being overweight. Unfortunately, in today's ocular society, people tend to judge others by their appearance and though this is a cruel fact of life, it is the cause for so many people mistakenly...

Do you know the difference between hot cocoa and hot chocolate? Many people think they are the same but they are nutritionally on opposite ends of the spectrum. Hot chocolate is a sugar and fat filled mix that is mostly artificial chemicals and fillers with a chocolate taste.

Because chocolate is high in refined sugar and fat it is nutritionally void. However hot cocoa is the opposite. Nutritionally, hot cocoa is very beneficial. It is full of antioxidants and had been proven...

Phenylalanine:The phenylalanine is an essential amino acid. It is not synthesized in the body but in the micro-organism it is synthesized where one molecule of D-erythrose-4 phosphate and two molecules of phosphot-enolpyruvic acid are required. Metabolic breakdown of phenylalanine lead to formation of tyrosine, phenyl acetic acid, phenyl lactic acid, and tissue protein in separate reactions.

The phenylalanine gets first converted to tyrosine by phenylalanine hydroxylase. One...

Vitamin D is found to be of great importance in proper functioning of the male sexual drive. According to the latest research, Vitamin D enhances the stamina in men.

Vitamin D is found to play a very important role in maintaining the health of an individual. Vitamin D is an essential part of the endocrine system [1] as it controls several of the adrenal hormones, growth of cells, production of enzymes, and has other direct genomic functions. The key difference in definition...

The daily recommended dose represents the optimum contribution of nutrients calculated for a medium calorie intake of up to 2,500 calories per day.

In case of adult men of up to sixty-four years old the daily, the recommended dose of unsaturated fats is of up sixty-five grams, while the amount of saturated fats shouldn`t cross the twenty grams limit. Men should consume up to 300 milligrams of cholesterol, 300 grams of carbohydrates, twenty-five grams of fibers, and...

Sugar is all around us these days from obviously sweet candy and soft drinks to many other foods we may not even realize. We are bombarded with it on the food shelves and in advertising and of course... it tastes good even though too much is very bad for us! Many people simply believe that our society has lost its willpower to find out How to curb sugar cravings so we can be rid of these urges. Recently however medical science has discovered many things about sugar and how it affects...

What About Sugar and Artificial Sweeteners?

There are 4 classes of simple sugars which are regarded by most nutritionists as "harmful" to optimal health when prolonged consumption in amounts above 15% of the carbohydrate calories are ingested: Sucrose, fructose, honey, and malts. I’d like to discuss sugars and sweeteners. Personally, I don’t think that any of it is harmful in small doses, but I would prefer using natural sugar over an artificial...