Food Meditations: Health and Nutrition: Understand and Decode Food Cravings!

Monday, 19 October 2009

Health and Nutrition: Understand and Decode Food Cravings!

Between saying and doing many a pair of shoes is worn out. ~Italian Proverb

Nutrition on WomensHealth.com
Decode Your Cravings - The urge to scarf is more than a hunger cue gone wild. It's a window into your nutritional needs and your personality.
Who hasn't been there: in the throes of a food craving so intense that having Jillian Michaels appear in the flesh wouldn't hold you back from that bag of chips...or greasy slice of pizza...or chocolate confection. But why exactly are these common food joneses so powerful?
"Cravings definitely have a physical component, but they also give some insight into the type of person you are," ...
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... Decode Your Cravings; by Bridget Doherty

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Health on WomensHealth.com
Foods That Help You Avoid Colds
Raise your body's natural defenses with this eating plan and stop almost any sickness before it starts.
Nobody plans to get sick. On the contrary, your efforts to avoid it sometimes seem borderline OCD: Don't sneeze into your hands, always cook your chicken to exactly 170 degrees, and hose down every germ-carrying preschooler in sight with soap and water. And yet, no matter how many times you gargle with salt before bedtime or coat yourself in antibacterial hand cleanser, ...
Full Story: Foods That Help You Avoid Colds; by Philip Rhodes

Health & Fitness on the Seattlepi.com
Think of this before you eat that
Most of us have done it.
We've stuffed ourselves at the dinner table then consoled ourselves with lies.
"I'm sure I'll work off most of it doing the dishes," we say. Or, "The walk I took earlier probably made up for that blueberry cobbler." Exercise doesn't always burn up as many calories as you'd think, though. And it's easy to underestimate how many calories food contains.
We decided to take a look at how much activity it would take for a 180-pound person to work off the calories contained in these healthy and not-so-healthy food ...
Full Story: Think of this before you eat that; By Jessica Belasco
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