Nutrition & Health

How healthy you are depends largely on your nutritional intake. And the amount and quality of nutrients your body absorbs come from the food you eat. Knowing that plant-based foods offer the best quality and most nutrients on earth, I'll only show you the nutritional benefits of select plant foods that will help keep your health in the best tiptop condition. All-natural and chemical-free!

Featured Articles on Nutrition & Health

  1. Coconut Cream's Health Benefits
    I love adding coconut cream when cooking curry. Nothing can replace the flavor of coconut cream in curry. Its sweet aroma simply enhances the taste of the dish and gives a smooth, silky consistency to the curry when...
  2. Coconut Oil's Health Benefits
    Is coconut oil a friend or foe to your health? Over the years, coconut oil was badly criticized worldwide as one that may increase your cholesterol level, elevate your risk of heart disease and make you grow fatter and fatter. All because of one thing...
  3. Olive Oil's Health Benefits
    Unlike most other vegetable oils, olive oil is no ordinary fat. Besides effectively protects you against high blood pressure, heart disease and stroke, it may also help to prevent brain damage and failure of your adrenal glands. Oh, good news if you're overweight, olive oil can slash some pounds off your body mass too. What gives olive oil such preventive and protective power?
  4. Flaxseed's Health Benefits
    Today, we need flaxseeds as much as we need oxygen. Why? According to research and studies, western diets (including the average American and European diets) contain way too much omega-6 and insufficient omega-3. Even the Asians are lacking omega-3. Vegans and vegetarians are not spared either in the danger of omega-3 deficiency since most processed plant foods are stripped of the essential super nutrients...
  5. Dried Apricots' Health Benefits
    You can eat apricots raw, cooked, dried, or canned. But dried apricots will benefit you even more. In making dried apricots, fresh apricots are stripped of their water content without tampering with their nutritional properties. And do you know that 5 pounds of fresh apricots produce only one pound of dried apricots? For this reason, dried apricots carry a much higher...
  6. Apples' Health Benefits
    Meet your new healthy snack
    the easy-to-carry, filling, juicy and refreshing... apple. So how can apple benefit your health?
  7. Bell Peppers' Health Benefits
    Other than their colorful array and crunchy taste, why do you think bell peppers are so popular worldwide? Because they destroy free radicals. Or specifically, the army of antioxidants in bell peppers is the curse against free radicals. In order to appreciate the health benefits of bell pepper, you need to understand...
  8. Chili Peppers' Health Benefits
    Chili pepper contains a "hot" substance that can cure poor appetite, clear blocked nose, prevent some cancers, and best if you want to melt some pounds. Learn about that magic substance and how you can turn "heat" in favor of your health.
  9. Strawberries' Health Benefits
    Strawberries are as attractive on the outside as their inside
    they are filled with many necessary nutrients a body needs. No wonder they are crowned "The Queen of Fruits". You can also choose strawberries as perfect ingredients for salads, smoothies, bread, cakes and desserts, especially fondues. Due to their bright, appealing appearance, chefs also love to use them as...
  10. Brain Food — Foods for Brain
    Have you been ill-treating your brain? Do you know what exactly your brain needs? As an office worker or even working at home, your probably got so busy that you skip meals or simply just grab some junk food to save time. Are you aware that poor diet can inflict damages on your brain and cause it to malfunction? Here's how you can boost your brain power...

Related Articles on Nutrition & Health — Coconut Oil / Cream / Milk

  1. Health Benefits of Coconut Oil
    Modern medical science has uncovered many health benefits of coconut oil such that it can actually protect you against heart disease, diabetes, cancers, liver and kidney diseases, osteoporosis, dental decay and skin infections. But coconut oil's health benefits don't stop there. It also relieves symptoms associated with illnesses like...
  2. Benefits of Coconut Oil
    The benefits of coconut oil don't just cover internally to improve your health, but externally as well to give you a smooth, ageless skin. Here's the list of the advantages of eating coconut oil...
  3. Virgin Coconut Oil Health Benefits
    No other types of coconut oil can match the health benefits of virgin coconut oil. Let me explain. Virgin (unrefined) coconut oil is extracted via cold pressed (very low temperature) method with zero chemicals added, which retain its...
  4. Benefits of Extra Virgin Coconut Oil
    Before I show you the benefits of coconut oil, I just wanted to let you know that there's in fact no such thing as "extra virgin coconut oil". That's because coconut oil is not...
  5. Coconut Oil Skin Benefits
    Other than healing your health internally such as lowering your blood pressure, curing constipation, improving digestion, strengthening your kidney and liver, enhancing your immune system, burning more unwanted body fat and fighting various killer diseases including AIDS, coconut oil can also benefit you externally, as a skin care product...
  6. Coconut Oil for Skin Care — Tips to Achieving Flawless Skin with Coconut Oil
    How much have you been spending on skin care products all along? What if I tell you something much cheaper but yet can revitalize your skin even better than those chemical-laden skin care products, wouldn't you want to try? Yes, I'm talking about coconut oil, but these are the tips to help you maximize the healing effect of coconut oil on your skin...
  7. Coconut Oil for Acne
    There had been some arguments over the use of coconut oil for acne, that is, some got glimmering flawless skin after using coconut oil to treat acne while some suffered from acne breakout - worse than before! What actually happened? When using coconut oil for acne treatment, make sure you use...
  8. How to Use Coconut Oil for Acne
    Is coconut oil good for acne? Many say 'yes' while few say 'no'. Why the different response when using coconut oil for acne? In fact, coconut oil provides effective treatment for acne, however, it's too powerful for some people to accept it because some of them suffer...
  9. Coconut Oil & Weight Loss
    How does coconut oil relate to weight loss? "Eating whatever oils will make you fat" is the notion for the general public. But coconut oil is different, despite its...
  10. Coconut Oil for Weight Loss
    Is it true that you can eat coconut oil for weight loss? Many people thought that this oil (containing primarily saturated fat) bears the same fatty chain structure as animal saturated fats. Here's the difference...
  11. Buy Coconut Oil — Things You Need to Know
    When buying coconut oil, you want to make sure you get the best bang for your buck, and more importantly, get the right type of coconut oil to serve your needs. Find out now...
  12. How to Eat Coconut Oil for Health Benefits
    If I ask you to recommend a recipe using coconut cream, you probably thought of curry. What if I change it to coconut oil, what recipe comes to your mind then? Indeed, both provide similar nutritional and health benefits but coconut oil provides stronger health benefits due to its concentrated healthful components. This nourishing fat protects you against...
  13. Coconut Oil Uses & Benefits
    You don't just benefit from eating coconut oil to achieve good health, weight loss and gain more energy etc. In fact, you can also use coconut oil in various ways. Let's go check out on how coconut oil benefits you with its various other uses...
  14. Coconut Oil Benefits Vs Disadvantages
    If you already know about how coconut oil benefits your health, then all the more you should learn about how coconut oil's health benefits can turn into disadvantages... if you use it in the wrong way. Knowing this will help you become mindful of using coconut oil in your favor, so that you can avoid the undesirable effects coconut oil may bring to you...
  15. Disadvantages of Coconut Oil
    You've probably read a lot about the health benefits of coconut oil, but what about its disadvantages? Coconut oil does have its disadvantages despite its healthful characteristics. Let's go over them one by one and see how we can turn each disadvantage in your favor so you can minimize its negative effect and maximize its health benefits for you...
  16. Coconut Oil Types — Which Type Best Benefits Your Health?
    As more and more people begin to recognize coconut oil for its vast health benefits, it's good for you to learn about the different types of coconut oil so you know which one you should eat to reap the most health benefits...
  17. Coconut Oil Facts
    Because I know what exactly coconut oil can do to your health and skin via my personal close contact with this liquid diamond, you should take a serious look at these coconut oil facts so you know exactly how to...
  18. Coconut Health Benefits
    Tropical fruit like coconut benefits your health more than most of the fruits you've been eating out there. On top of that, coconut can be produced into coconut cream (or milk) and coconut oil to serve different dietary needs for you, so you can gain...
  19. Coconut Oil Vs Coconut Milk
    What are the differences between coconut oil and coconut milk in terms of health benefits? How are they made that causes the difference? To make coconut milk, you just add...
  20. Coconut Cream Vs Coconut Milk
    What's the difference between coconut milk and coconut cream? Is coconut cream the same as coconut milk? These are what most people ask. Let me take this opportunity to clarify their differences. First, coconut cream is...
  21. Coconut Cream Benefits
    Many people love adding coconut cream to enhance the flavor and thickness of curry, while I add it for one more purpose, its health benefits. "Are you sure coconut cream benefits your health?" is the shocking question people usually pose when I told them that coconut cream is actually...
  22. Health Benefits of Coconut Cream
    Isn't coconut cream the culprit that causes weight gain and triggers heart disease? In fact, coconut cream benefits your health more than what you've heard and learned for the past decades. So how does coconut cream promote health? Essentially, coconut cream benefits your health with its abundant supply of...
  23. Benefits of Coconut Cream
    Few people ever realize how coconut cream benefits their health greatly which leads to many avoiding it like a plague due to its high fat content. But do you know that coconut cream actually carries good...

Related Articles on Nutrition & Health — Olive Oil

  1. Health Benefits of Olive Oil
    Besides coconut oil that protects you with its medium-chain lauric acid and flaxseed oil that supply you with plenty of omega-3 essential fatty acid (EFA) to balance up your body's EFAs ratio, the next good oil that provides health benefits is olive oil. How olive oil benefits your health? Olive oil helps you...
  2. Disadvantages of Olive Oil
    All along you've heard way too many health benefits of olive oil. But did you know that olive oil can also impair your health in its most original form? Also, when handle improperly, your risk for cancer and other degenerative diseases will increase. Here I show you how you can eat it without suffering from its harmful effect...
  3. How is Olive Oil Made
    Not all olive oils are created equal — their quality is in essence, graded based on production method, acidity level and flavor. Although different grades of olive oil can mix together to produce other grades and types, there are 3 principal grades of olive oil purposely made to benefit your health more than others...
  4. Olive Oil Types — Which Type of Olive Oil Benefits Your Health the Most?
    There are about 6 types of olive oil available in the market. But we're only interested in the health benefits of olive oil, so I'll concentrate on the top 3 grades of olive oil and help you see which one will bring you the most health benefits...
  5. Buy Olive Oil — How to Choose the Best Olive Oil Off the Shelf
    When buying olive oil, how do you choose the best quality olive oil off the shelf? Here's a tip - choose the one that stands...
  6. How to Store Olive Oil to Retain Its Health Benefits
    Olive oil is sensitive to heat, light and air. So, what is the best way to store olive oil? Keep your olive oil best in...
  7. Olive Oil Facts
    Have you heard people singing praises of olive oil that you're now itching to try it out yourself, whether to improve your health, skin or solely for weight loss? Well, before anything else, I suggest that you learn some hard facts about olive oil before you jump on the olive oil's bandwagon...