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If you want a tasty fruit to add to your diet that promotes health, try blueberries.

Besides blueberries, the only other commonly grown fresh fruits in the United States that rate a little higher on the ORAC scale are dark grapes and pomegranates.Yes, these are also healthy fruits to eat, but it’s nice to have a variety, and blueberries lend themselves to not only being eaten fresh, but are useful in cooking and baked goods.  (more…)

There is much discussion about the B complex vitamin and how it is essential for the body to perform a multitude of functions. However, the B complex vitamin is not just one big complicated vitamin, as the name may imply.

There are actually eight B vitamins in the B complex vitamin as well as a few other related substances. The eight vitamins that make up the B complex vitamin are: thiamine or vitamin B1, riboflavin or vitamin B2, niacin or vitamin B3, pyridoxine or vitamin B6, cobalamine or vitamin B12, folic acid, pantothenic acid and biotin.  Related substances also in the B complex vitamin include choline, inositol and para-aminobenzoic acid (PABA). (more…)

It is sometimes hard making healthy food choices for the family when there is so much controversy in the media all the time.One day a product will be good for your health and tomorrow it will be bad for you.With all the various varieties of products and the media usually contradicting themselves on a daily basis it really is not at all suprising that people get confused. (more…)

It’s almost time for summer in the nothern part of the world.  That means people will likely be drinking a lot more.  People are apt to be more thirsty during hot weather since the body loses fluids.

Consuming a soft drink full of sugar and chemicals isn’t a good way to replace lost fulids.  You don’t need artificial ingredients, high fructose corn syrup or massive amounts of other sweeteners, because there are lots of healthy beverages these days. (more…)

Have you thought about the safety of what you put in your body lately?

Take soft drinks for example. Coke is so acidic that it makes a great automobile engine cleaner, and it’s even rumored that it’s what the manufacturer uses to clean the engines of their own trucks. On top of that, the acidic liquid then sits, sometimes for years, in an aluminum can. Have you heard that aluminum in the body is associated with Alzheimer’s disease and dementia? That’s a combination I’d ask myself, “Is that safe?” I’d encourage you to do so as well. (more…)