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  • High Fiber Foods Win The Fight Against Flab
    So if you are like many people today, you slave away on the treadmill, you sweat it out in step class, you watch your calories and fat grams, but still you fail to win the battle of the bulge. What's missing in our regime, and what can we do to keep our bellies flat and our weight in check?

    Let me ask you a question. How much fiber do you eat everyday? Despite the fact that high fiber diets are encouraged by the American Dietetic Association, The National Institutes of...
  • How To Get High Fiber Foods: 20 Simple Ways To Get Your Daily Dose
    Doctors and nutritionists tout the benefits of high fiber foods for everything from cholesterol to regularity. Here are some quick tips to make sure you get the daily 25-30 grams recommended by the experts:

    1.Have Oatmeal for Breakfast - A cup of cooked oatmeal has 4 grams of fiber per serving and the complex carbohydrates will keep your energy high till lunchtime.

    2.Wrap it up – Mediterranean style wraps are all the rage. Chop or grate fiber rich vegetables and prepare...
  • High Fiber Diets Work
    These days, the ease of prepackaged snacks and accessibility of fast food restaurants has made our diets as well as our arteries thick with fats and processed sugars. We’ve decreased our consumption of fresh foods such as fruits and vegetables, and as a result, our fiber intake has severely dropped.

    The Surgeon General, American Dietetic Association and the National Cancer Institute recommend that adults consume 20-35 grams of fiber every day for optimal health. They e...
  • Total Body Cleansing Supports Detoxification And A Weight Loss Plan
    A question commonly asked by dieters is, “What can I do to support my healthy weight?” As a digestive care educator, my simple answer to that question is “cleanse & detoxify!” Simple dietary changes such as adding more fiber, and seasonal colon cleansing can help you promote regularity & associated weight loss.

    Colon cleansing is often the first thing we think about when we hear the words cleansing and detoxification. Everyday at work I speak with countless individual...
  • Eliminating Constipation And Dehydration To Eliminate Weight Retention
    Does your practitioner ever stop to ask you how are your bowels moving? What about your nutritionist? Your personal trainer? Chances are, unless you are suffering from a serious bout of irregularity or IBS, no one has brought it up yet, have they? It’s interesting, because the more you think about what you eat, the more you should be concerned about what is making its way out!

    The old saying goes, “You are what you eat.” Generally speaking, our meals travel through our di...
  • Why Eat Fiber?
    Nutritionists and health care practitioners often recommend a high fiber diet to their clients. Touted for its benefits to the cardiovascular system, experts suggest fiber will help us do everything from maintaining healthy cholesterol levels, to supporting a healthy blood sugar balance. As a digestive care educator, I typically discuss the benefits that fiber provides to our intestinal tract. In particular, that fiber can help promote regularity and assist with the normal...
  • A Diet That Cleanses The Body
    As our environment becomes increasingly toxic, and with the average American battling obesity, IBS, fatigue and countless other problems caused by lifestyle, it is no surprise that experts are calling for us to cleanse and detoxify our bodies.

    Cleansing is the elimination of toxins, stored wastes and other unwanted substances from the body. Detoxification is the body’s natural process of changing these harmful toxins into a less harmful form. Cleansing & detoxification...
  • Healthy Food Can Taste Good
    We are encouraged to eat a high fiber, low fat diet to support good health. But often, high fiber is equated with cardboard crackers and chalky powders. Experts in the natural foods arena are often asked if there will ever be a diet consisting of healthy food that actually tastes good! In fact, most of us assume that if it tastes good, it couldn’t be good for us.

    This is often the case for individuals who eat what nutritionists refer to as, ‘The Standard American Diet.” (...

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