Drink Your Vegetable Juice
October 20, 2009 by Peggy Rowland
Filed under Women's Health
How long has it been since you had a glass of vegetable juice?
Many of us don’t get the recommended daily servings of vegetables in our diets. Two new studies, presented at the International Symposium on Human Health Effects of Fruits and Vegetables, show that the convenience and enjoyment of vegetable juice are crucial to their success in helping people get their daily recommended servings of vegetables.
A 12-week study by the University of California-Davis revealed that the people in the study who drank at least two cups of vegetable juice met daily vegetable recommendations. However, only 7% of the non-juice drinkers …read more
Eating at regular intervals essential to good health and less diabetes
July 24, 2008 by Kendra James, RN
Filed under Diseases & Conditions
There are so many diets and crazy plans out there to lose weight. You know the cabbage soup diet, the Adkins diet, the peanut diet- yes that is real- and they all say when to eat and how often. What we need to remember is that how frequent we eat is almost as important as what we eat.
People who eat at irregular times run a greater risk of developing insulin resistance and ultimately diabetes. Metabolic syndromes also can be triggered by such intake. Here is what one study found…
The participants that said that they rarely ate a regular breakfast, lunch …read more




