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Doctors, health experts, and advertisements always emphasize the importance of healthy eating and make suggestions on how to improve our diets. Some of these suggestions include eating fruits and vegetables, nuts, yogurt, fish, and lean meats. Recently, Tara-Parker-Pope quoted in the

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Researchers report that increasing your intake of vitamin E and lutein may decrease your risk of getting cataracts. A study took 35,000 subjects and monitored them for ten years. Compared with one fifth of individuals who used fewer antioxidants, the ones who…

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California has always led the way with the newest food trends that sweep across the country. There was vegetarianism, raw foods, and then organic produce. Today, the newest trend is immunity-enhancing meals, and a recent article in the

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Another study shows that taking antioxidant vitamins does not prevent heart attacks (Archives of Internal Medicine August, 2007). 8,171 women over the age of 40, all with a history of heart disease or with three or more risk factors for that disease (high…

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The green tea craze is among us. Green tea shots, ice cream, iced tea, and flavored drinks can be found just about anywhere thanks to our society’s increasing realization of the amazing benefits this tea leaf has to offer us. From…

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It’s hot out, you’ve finished your workout, you’re standing in front of the mini-mart fridge considering your options. Water isn’t quite enough, and you had a prerun sports drink. Here’s something new: a juice blend called pomegranate blue. Sounds refreshing and, as a bonus,…

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As more Americans embrace a healthier lifestyle, the popularity of fizzy beverages continues to wane.  Industry insiders even predict that the bottled water industry will overtake carbonated soft drinks within the decade. 

This news bodes well for flavored, vitamin-enhanced water makers like…

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Nutrition tip of the evening: According to the American Council on Exercise (ACE), there are 7 antioxidant rich foods that must become as familiar to your belly as your running route is to your legs. 

In no particular order: * Prunes…

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