Have you been looking for an easy diet plan? If you have decided that you need to lose weight, no matter what the reasons, it's oftentimes challenging to distinguish where to begin. There are so many different plans, methods and diets to attempt that it's nearly impossible to make a knowledgeable conclusion. Luckily, weight loss usually comes down to a few important rules, and these are where you should start. This article aims to take you through the most basic rules of all –...

The little vegetable asparagus has amazingly wide range of health benefits.

Let's first have a look at the nutritional facts of asparagus:

A serving of six cooked fresh asparagus spears has:

Folate -                        131 mcg

Vitamin A...

The nutritional fruit avocado has a pear-like shape and an alligator-like texture. It is blackish green in color and has a large seed.

The nutritional facts of avocado is as follows:

100 gm of avocado contains:

ü      Energy:             245 Calories

ü     ...

Rich in nutrients, vast in variety, fruit and vegetables are a mainstay of the natural bodybuilding lifestyle. Try these tips to meet or exceed your recommended daily quota of nature's health-boosting bounty.

Make a well-stocked fruit bowl the welcoming centrepiece of your home. Top it up with the colorful bounty of the season, and encourage family and friends to treat it as a help-yourself snack bar, rather than an ornamental arrangement.

For a protein-packed...

Bariatric surgery procedures involve a lot of skin removal and numerous incisions. A post-bariatric patient therefore requires abariatric nutritionthat will enable the body to recover well. Thisbariatric nutritionshould also form the base of proper dieting to prevent chances of the patient relapsing into an overweight situation again. A post bariatric patient can typically not consume a whole...

It is really difficult to resist the temptation of sweet, ripe watermelon, however its not just the taste but there are more than one reasons to get attracted by this wonderful juicy fruit. Do you know watermelon has enormous health benefits?

Nutritionists have been educating people about watermelon's health benefits for a long time now. Recently, American Heart Association has endorsed their view by recognizing watermelon's nutritional properties with the "heart...

The acai berry (ah-sigh-ee) grows in the Amazon Rainforest on acai palm trees and looks like a purple marble or purple grape. The Acaí berry (fruit) is 90% seed pit and 10% acaí pulp and must be carefully handled before it can be consumed. During the process the acaí berries with water are put into a machine and are agitated against one another. This process separates the acaí pulp from the seed to produce a thick acaí fruit pulp puree.

Isn't coconut cream the culprit that causes weight gain and triggers heart disease? In fact, coconut cream benefits your health more than what you've heard and learned for the past decades. So how does coconut cream promote health?

Essentially, coconut cream benefits you with its medium-chain fatty acid (MCFA) structure and its lauric acid content. Let's first look at how its MCFA structure provides health benefits for you.

On surface, coconut cream's saturated fat seems...

So here’s the dilemma: If it’s produce, then the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) wants to call it a food. If you use it to heal you in some way, then the FDA wants to call it a drug… There is a very fine line in most peoples’ minds, but any line left between the two the Acai berry has just totally erased.

If one plant serves two different needs, such as a root sold as produce that can be used as a healing agent, (Ginseng and Green tea leaves...

Bistro MD meals are deliberately designed to maximize their nutritional potential, and that goes beyond just achieving the nutrient balance most conductive to weight loss. For instance Bistro MD has worked directly with the sources that produce our vegetable side dishes. We buy at peak season, when the vegetables are richest in their natural vitamins and nutrients. Then they’re field processed for our meals as soon as they’re picked, unlike some commercial vegetable crops...