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Chickpeas - Food of the Month
(HealthCastle.com) In celebration of Heart Month, here's another food to add to a heart-healthy menu: chickpeas. While North Americans are more familiar with the cream-fleshed variety of chickpeas called kabuli or garbanzo beans, a smaller-sized variety called desi is more prevalent in other parts of the world. About 85% of chickpeas produced worldwide are the desi variety and 15% are kabuli.
5 Reasons Why Coffee Can Be Good for You
(HealthCastle.com) Do you need a jolt of coffee in the morning before you can function? The average American coffee drinker consumes close to 3.5 cups a day. With this much java flowing through our veins, it is interesting to note some emerging research that sheds a positive light on the health benefits of drinking coffee.
5 Reasons Why Coffee Can Be Good For You1. Reduce Risk of Type 2 Diabetes
Diet Strategies To Manage Hot Flash
(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 FlashAvoid the following food items in your diet. Most women found these foods make hot flashes worse.
A Quick Test to Avoid Unhealthy Packaged Snacks
(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.
Top 10 Foods to Lower Cholesterol
(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?
Pizza: Surprising Ingredients You Should Worry About
(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.
Have a Sore Throat? Try These Food Remedies
(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!
Beware: You Can Still Overeat with "Healthy" or "Natural" Foods
(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 GainChristine Avanti, the health consultant for the show Fat Chef, identified the following common challenges among the show's participants:
What to Eat Tonight? Five Healthy Breakfast Ideas for Dinner
(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.
Beyond Semolina: Top 5 Non-Wheat Pastas
(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!
Top 5 Non-Wheat PastasBrown Rice
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?
You Can Cook: Wheat Berries
(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.
Why You Should Try Sea Vegetables
(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.
No Gimmicks: Five Foods for Weight Loss
(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.
#GoUnDiet Party: New Year New Habits
(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!
The Healthy Skin Diet: 5 Food Secrets
(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.
Is Natural, Nitrate-Free Ham Better?
(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?
Seven Snacks to Curb Your Sweet Cravings
(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.
Nutrition Faceoff: Quaker Quick Oats vs. Instant
(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?
Tuna - Food of the Month
(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).
Mercury Concerns
