Most parents would worry that if they keep their children from eating those fatty foods that they love, and only offer vegetables, that the children will starve, or have nutritional deficiencies.  These parents feel that the kids will just not eat the food.  If you think about it this way, how much nutrients are they receiving from the fatty, processed foods now?  If their diet consists of French fries, mashed potatoes, apple sauce, chocolate pudding, and maybe chicken...

I'm going to show you how to build muscle quick. A lot of people want to build muscle, but really don't have the slightest clue on how to do this. There is a lot of misinformation out there when it comes to training our bodies and I think this is the main reason people don't even try anymore. They gave it a try once, but failed miserably. Surprisingly, if you just pay attention to the "big guys" at the gym, you can learn a lot about what it takes to put on muscle quickly. I'll...

The Green Tea (Camellia Sinensis scientific name) is a Chinese variety of Long Jing, rich in health benefits, such as polyphenols and catechins, which are substances that help with a draining effect and antioxidant.

Green tea began to be used 3,000 years ago in China for its remarkable health benefits. Since ancient Chinese knew that green tea had the power to cure a headache, and helps eliminate toxins and preserve youth. But for years no other culture had given importance...

Many people think sports drink and energy drink are the same things but they are made for totally different consumers.

Most of the time we end up buying energy and sports drinks. We usually buy these products without knowing the difference between energy and sports drink. Many a times energy drinks are bought to have instead of a soft drink or to quench thirst but in reality that is not the purpose of energy drink. All you are doing is taking in lot of calories without making...

The delectable, creamy and flavorful unsweetened chocolate is an aspiration of each dieter and can have flavorful low calorie sweets when involved to South Beach or Atkins dieting, and that places a quality low calorie chocolate in superior necessitate.

A sugarless chocolate is obtainable in bars, chocolate truffles and in bunch of boxes of chocolates. Top quality makers as the Whey chocolate supplies low calorie chocolate that is yummy to numerous dieters looking for low...

The medical community continues to debate the exact reasons for poor vein health. It may be due to aging or being overweight or just a tendency towards venal insufficiency. In some cases, weak valves may be responsible for poor venous circulation and the pooling of blood that has flown backward. This also leads to an increase in the volume of blood in the veins and enlarges them till they look purple and blue and like cords that are twisted and bulging. Some might even be swollen and...

Black beans - nature's complete nutritious foods loaded with protein, cholesterol free, and they are noted as a quick delicious way to a healthy meal. In all bean recipes, we must always remember to drain and rinse the beans before using. Below I will give you some healthy recipe ideas for your healthy living with black beans.

Black Bean Saute
In a skillet treated with 1 tsp olive oil brown one small onion. Stir in one clove minced, and cook for a minute. Stir in one can...

Everyone has secrets, even beautiful, talented celebrities such as Kate Beckinsale. In a recent interview for a popular magazine, Kate admitted that she suffered from anorexia when she was a teenager. Now in her thirties, Kate looks great, and she admits that she now has a healthier body image. If you want to know more about Kate's weight loss and workout secrets, then continue reading below:

Clueless?

* The star revealed that when she was in her twenties, she didn't have a...

Soup is known to be a comfort food. Besides eating soup to get well or even to take the place of a meal when you are too lazy, you will find these soups are a delicious in so many ways. For the lovers of vegetables you will find that you can make great tasting vegetarian soup recipes.

You will find these myriad vegetarian soup recipes on the internet and also from cookery books that have soups listed down. Each of these soup recipes has lots of interesting ingredients and...

Wheatgrass is a commonly found herb in India and is known for its nutritional value. It is known, as Triticum aestivum in its biological terms. It contains enzymes like protease, cytrochrome, amylase, lipase, transshydrogenase and SOD (super oxide dismutase). Besides these enzymes, it also contains all the essential amino acids especially alanine, asparatic acid, glutamic acid, arginine and serine, which are helpful in providing good amount of protein in body.

Wheatgrass is...