(HealthCastle.com) Hot flashes seem to be a personal experience. Many women we talked to tried various diet remedies and supplements but results are often inconsistent. Let's look at some common diet solutions for hot flashes and their scientific evidence.
A Diet to Manage Hot Flash
Avoid the following food items in your diet. Most women found these foods make hot flashes worse.
(HealthCastle.com) February is National Snack Foods Month, a time when snack food manufacturers go into high gear to up sales and get packaged snacks into shoppers' grocery carts and homes.
(HealthCastle.com) Just about every super food claims to help lower cholesterol. So which one actually lives up to its claim? Our Heart Smart Nutrition section is one of the more popular sections on HealthCastle.com. Whether you are a regular reader or not, can you spot the 10 foods in this poster?
(HealthCastle.com) Despite the flurry of media reports, the U.S. Congress did not declare pizza to be a vegetable. What actually happened is that school lunch regulations now count 2 tablespoons of tomato sauce or puree (as would be found on pizza) as a vegetable serving, while the serving size for all other vegetables is a half-cup. Critics claim that this gives the food manufacturers an easy way out in meeting the required number of fruit/vegetable servings in school lunches.
(HealthCastle.com) It's swollen, and you feel grumpy. Often, you dread the simple task of swallowing. If you have a sore throat, you may want to try one or more of the following food remedies!
(HealthCastle.com) As the saying goes, you can have too much of a good thing. Nowhere is this clearer than the new show premiering tonight on Food Network, called Fat Chef, where overweight culinary professionals spend four months taking back control of their weight with the help of trainers, nutritionists, and therapists.
?Even Healthy Foods Can Cause Weight Gain
Christine Avanti, the health consultant for the show Fat Chef, identified the following common challenges among the show's participants:
(HealthCastle.com) Cooking even a simple hot breakfast can seem like too great an investment of precious time when you’re rushing to get out the door in the morning. But when day turns to night, even the most time-consuming breakfast is still quicker than most things you can whip up for dinner. With minimal cleanup, easy ingredients, and comforting flavors, breakfast for dinner makes the perfect meal swap for a healthy evening nosh.
(HealthCastle.com) As a pantry staple, one of the easiest ways to get more whole grain into your diet is to try the growing number of pastas made with whole grains beyond the traditional durum semolina. Thankfully, the days of cardboard-tasting non-wheat pastas are well behind us!
Fri, 20 Jan 2012 16:55:21 +0000 Kids' Nutrition, Gluten-Free The ADHD Diet
(HealthCastle.com) If your family is dealing with ADHD, you are probably looking for all the information you can get on how to help your child focus, control their impulses, and succeed in school. Does any of the common food elimination practices work?
(HealthCastle.com) Wheat flour is the main ingredient in many of our breads, pasta products, cereals, and other baked goods. Ever wonder where all that flour comes from? Wheat berries. In wheat berries, only the hull (the outermost layer of the grain, which is inedible) has been removed. In the store, you can usually find either white or red wheat berries. They are both whole grains and can be cooked the same way.
(HealthCastle.com) We know that the ocean provides a lot of amazing nutrition. One ocean item gaining popularity in North America is sea vegetables, or seaweed. In some countries, such as Japan, seaweed forms an integral part of the cuisine, so many types of sea vegetables are identified by their Japanese names.
(HealthCastle.com) If moving the scale in a downward direction is on your list of New Year’s goals, no doubt you’re especially motivated to make some changes. A plan as simple as strategically selecting the foods you eat can lead not only to losing weight, but also to loading up your diet with a healthy dose of nutrition.
(HealthCastle.com) It's been 2 weeks since you made your resolutions. What new habits have you adopted since the New Year? What specific healthy eating resolutions did you make? How did you make them stick? Share with us your New Year Resolutions and let's chat healthy eating habits!
(HealthCastle.com) True beauty comes from within, so the key to a healthy glow may not come from your cosmetics. Your skin is the largest organ of your body. If you nourish your body from the inside out, you will make a difference in the way your skin looks - and ages.
(HealthCastle.com) You may have come across natural, organic, or nitrate-free ham in the grocery stores. Ever wonder if they are better than conventionally processed ham?
(HealthCastle.com) Do you have a fierce sweet tooth? There’s no need to let your sweet cravings get the best of your healthy intentions. While it’s true that sometimes the best way to answer the cloying call is to indulge, the good news is that it often doesn’t take much to put your cravings to rest. In fact, just a small taste will do the trick. Skeptical? Give it a try. Check out these naturally tasty snacks to calm your sweet cravings.
(HealthCastle.com) If instant oatmeal is a breakfast staple at your house, have you ever wondered how close the microwaveable packets of oatmeal come to the actual oats?
(HealthCastle.com) This month we are talking about tuna. While tuna appears regularly on sushi menus, the most-consumed type in the U.S. remains canned tuna. Typically, canned tuna is either "white" (albacore tuna) or "light" (any one, or a combination, of the following: skipjack, yellowfin, or tongol tuna).
(HealthCastle.com) Everyone loves to know the "latest" super food list! I've come across some really fancy exotic recommendations; the problem is, I can't find them in my grocery stores! Really, super foods don't need to be exotic! They just need to pack nutrition punch! In my latest book, Go UnDiet, I've listed Top 60 Super Foods based on my recommended nutrition criteria.
Wed, 04 Jan 2012 16:01:02 +0000 Nuts & Seeds, Spices and Herbs, Fish, Healthy Snacks, Vegetables, Beans & Legumes, Yogurt Top 12 Foods to Try in 2012
(HealthCastle.com) Most of us like to start the new year off with new resolutions. If eating better is one of your goals for 2012, here are 12 foods that we think deserve another try or a more starring role at your table. Some may be new to your palate, while others may simply have been overlooked.
(HealthCastle.com) Winding down for the holidays has given us a chance to look at our work from the past 12 months. We're excited to highlight the top 10 most popular posts we published in 2011!
(HealthCastle.com) We are so obsessed with reducing salt that we sometimes forget to look at the other half of the equation: getting enough potassium. Potassium, as Go UnDiet author Gloria Tsang describes it, is "another mineral that can counteract the damaging effect of sodium." Potassium has been shown to lower blood pressure. Fortunately, there is a wide range of potassium-rich foods, making it easy to get potassium from the foods you eat and not from a supplement.
(HealthCastle.com) It's the pomegranate season again! If you have seeded a pomegranate before, you know how messy it can turn (and how your finger nails can turn red for a day!) Check out this trick by Chef John!
(HealthCastle.com) At this time of the year, gloomy weather and hectic schedules conspire to create a perfect storm of grumpiness for many. Fortunately, there is a growing body of research suggesting that some herbs and spices we cook with also have antidepressive properties, in addition to making our foods taste good.
