Calcium Absorption and Health: Why You Don't Want to Sip Tea While You're Eating Yogurt
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Calcium Absorption and Health: Why You Don’t Want to Sip Tea While You’re Eating Yogurt

ByCathe Friedrich Reading Time: 4 minutes

You’re trying to get enough calcium in your diet, but there’s another factor you may not have considered. How much of it are you absorbing? Calcium absorption can be an issue, especially as you age and if you eat certain types of diets. Find out more about how your diet affects calcium absorption and ways to increase how much dietary calcium your body can use.

Six Herbs to Boost Weight Loss
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Six Herbs to Boost Weight Loss

ByCathe Friedrich Reading Time: 3 minutes

Folk medicine practitioners have used herbs for centuries to treat health problems such as obesity and diabetes. Modern scientific studies only recently started investigating some of these herbs to test such claims, but the encouraging study results indicate a few herbs may be important tools in the fight against fat.

Does what you eat matter in treating depression?
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Diet for Depression: Does What You Eat Matter?

ByCathe Friedrich Reading Time: 3 minutes

Does diet play a role in treating depression? Almost 10% of the population suffers from some form of depression. Even though there are medications to treat the symptoms of depression, recent research shows they may only be effective for treating severe depression. This leaves people with mild to moderate depression few treatment options that really work. What about diet? Does it play a role in treating depression?

Thirteen ‘Healthy’ Foods and Drinks That Are Stopping You From Losing Weight
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Thirteen ‘Healthy’ Foods and Drinks That Are Stopping You From Losing Weight

ByCathe Friedrich Reading Time: 6 minutes

If you are trying to lose weight or are doing your best to maintain a slim figure, you probably think of yourself as something of an expert on the subject of which foods are hazardous to your waistline. However, at least thirteen of the foods and drinks that people commonly think of as healthy are actually capable of stopping you from losing weight. Read on to find out which of these foods are the worst, and to discover more genuinely healthy substitutes.

The Role of Lactate for Improving Body Composition
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The Role of Lactate for Improving Body Composition

ByCathe Friedrich Reading Time: 3 minutes

Lactate has some positive benefits when it comes to building lean body composition. Find out how this poorly understood compound that builds up during intense exercise helps you get slimmer and more defined. You’ll also discover how to get the benefits of lactate training.

Surprising Health Benefits of Cinnamon
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Surprising Health Benefits of Cinnamon

ByCathe Friedrich Reading Time: 3 minutes

Few spices have been in use for as long as cinnamon has. Its healing virtues, however, have only recently begun to be discovered by modern science. Derived from the dried bark of a small tree that grows in Egypt, Vietnam, Indonesia, Brazil, India and Sri Lanka, cinnamon has been a fixture in Chinese medicine and Ayurveda. Nowadays it plays an increasingly important role in the practice of alternative medicine in the west.