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Can God Help You to Lose Weight?

August 9, 2011 / Staff

Obesity is a huge problem in the U.S. especially in the South.

Church leaders recognize that their constituents often head the word of God over the word of their doctors.

This may be a great opportunity for the church community to step in and have an impact on the health of the population.

Weekly access to members offers churches an effective means of both dispensing information and discerning needs, said Elizabeth Williams, an assistant professor of public health at Tennessee State University and an associate pastor.
A growing awareness of those assets has prompted churches to use weekly bulletins to address a host of medical issues, develop health ministries and connect members with primary health care services.
Those who prepare the meals offered after services at Williams’ church in Nashville have eliminated fried foods, cut back on salt and opted for turkey-based products over pork

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Convince Your Brain to Crave What’s Good For You!

August 5, 2011 / Staff

Eating healthy food may just be a matter of convincing yourself to do so.

By surrounding yourself with healthy choices, feeding your cravings can be accomplished with fruits, veggies, whole grains and low fat dairy.

Changing your habits will change your cravings.

“For most of human history, people didn’t have enough to eat, so fat was something you really needed to seek out,” says Marcia Pelchat, a food psychologist at the Monell Chemical Senses Center in Philadelphia.
Pelchat adds, however, that while we’re born with certain cravings, there’s also evidence we start to crave whatever we eat in large quantities. She found this when she put study subjects on a vanilla-flavored drink low in saturated fat. After consuming it every day for two weeks, about a third of the subjects reported craving the drink, even though she says, “It was chalky and not very yummy.”

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10 Food Additives to Avoid for Better Health!

June 22, 2011 / Staff

Food additives are now a main ingredient of the American diet.

Additives, which were developed to help preserve food freshness, have become a health hazard to millions.

Read on for more details.

These top ten are particularly harmful.

Artificial Sweeteners
High Fructose Corn Syrup
Monosodium Glutamate
Trans Fat
Common Food Dyes
Sodium Sulfate
Sodium Nitrate/Sodium Nitrate
BHA and BHT
Sulphur Dioxide
Potassium Bromate

A typical American household spends about 90 percent of their food budget on processed foods, and are in doing so exposed to a plethora of artificial food additives, many of which can cause dire consequences to your health.

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Your Multivitamin May Not Contain All the Nutrients on the Label

June 21, 2011 / Staff

Vitamins are expensive and the research is out on whether or not they are as effective as we hope that they are.

Recent studies about the potency of some supplements and multivitamins is discouraging.

“While medications are closely overseen by the federal Food and Drug Administration, supplements like vitamins don’t get regular testing by any government agency. So there’s no way of knowing — outside of independent testing — whether a bottle of supplements contains what it’s supposed to … Although low levels of certain nutrients can be a problem, doses that exceed recommendations are especially worrisome. Several products evaluated … including some designed for children, had this issue.”

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Calorie Restriction for Longer Life?

May 26, 2011 / Staff

Could calorie restriction help you live a longer healthier life?

There is some research on mammals to suggest that less food promotes a longer life, puts less stress on the digestive system and limits the amount of free radicals produced in digestion.

Recent research from Washington University scientists found that people who slashed their calorie intake have lower core body temperatures than those who eat more. Core body temperature is the temperature at which all of the functions in the body can operate at maximum efficiency, so the link looks like a positive one, according to some researchers.