Posts Tagged ‘antioxidants’

By flavoring your meals with these 10 supercharged spices, you can:

Increase your metabolism Reduce inflammation Speed fat loss Control blood sugar Reduce your risk of cancer and heart disease

Without adding a single calorie, these powerful herbs and spices can transform an ordinary meal into something extraordinary! These 10 herbs and spices are good for you body and contain a wide variety of some of the most potent antioxidants of any food.

There are more antioxidants in these …

Let’s get down to the carbohydrate truth about whether or not potatoes are a friend or a foe when it comes to fat loss!

Potatoes are categorized in the “white food” group.  Many health professions and fitness experts warn and admonish to avoid any of the “white” carbohydrates.  Sugar would be one of them, as would be white bread, and both are one of the worst things you can put in your body. Instead, choose to fuel …

Forget sour. The news about the health value of grapes just keeps getting sweeter.

Researchers at the Mt. Sinai School of Medicine in New York published a paper in 2008 that suggests grape seed extract might well slow down the onset and degenerative effects of Alzheimer’s disease. Certain polyphenol compounds in grape seed extract thought to prevent plaque buildup in cells that otherwise leads to the brain impairment of Alzhemer’s.

The Mt. Sinai scientists used a grape seed extract product …

Did you know that eating more chocolate may make you smarter?! According to

a recent article in the New England Journal of Medicine, countries that eat more chocolate produce more Nobel Prize winners. It doesn’t take a genius to know that eating large quantities of dark chocolate can boost your brain power.

Chocolate is one of the great superfoods out there, packed with nutrients. Dark chocolate can stimulate the brain because

of its …

I’m sure you can think of all sorts of condiments that are obviously NOT healthy…

What about Mayo?  Sorry…

With processed refined soybean oil as the main ingredient in most mayos, there’s NOTHING healthy about mayonnaise.  It causes internal inflammation and harms your omega-6 to omega-3 balance with excess omega-6 fats.   Tartar sauce has the same issues as mayo.  If you can find a mayo made with 100% olive oil instead of soybean oil, this would actually be a …