Diet Guides

Nutritious Nuts

It’s common knowledge that nuts are a powerhouse of nutrients, and many books on diet and nutrition recommend eating nuts as a mid-morning or afternoon snack, instead of less healthy foods like biscuits or muffins, because they are high in carbohydrates as well as vitamins and minerals. But nuts are also known to be high in fat, so what are the most nutritious nuts and how do they compare in fat content?

You Are What You Eat

“One cannot think well, love well or sleep well if one has not dined well.” - Virginia Woolfe

Thinking is a biochemical process. For brain cells to communicate effectively with each other and create neural pathways, they require chemicals called neurotransmitters. Neurotransmitters are the ‘messengers’ carrying messages from one neuron to another. They are made from amino acids found in protein foods (e.g., meat, fish and cheese).

6 Simple Nutrition Tips

1. Don’t Go Shopping Without A List

This is huge. You must know beforehand what you need to get at the grocery store for two big reasons. If you don’t, you’ll end up making impulse buys of food you shouldn’t have in the house. Not if you want to stick to your nutrition program and show off your sexy abs. By having a list you can go directly to the food items you need and avoid all the junk food areas that the store tries to make you walk through since these are high profit items.

Nutritional Therapies For Mental Disorders

According to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 4 out of the 10 leading causes of disability in the US and other developed countries are mental disorders. Major depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, and obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) are among the most common mental disorders that currently plague numerous countries and have varying incidence rates from 26 percent in America to 4 percent in China.

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