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What You Need to Know About Healthy Bones

Paul Rogers — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 00:22:55 +0000

Worrying about their bones is not something that teenage girls give high priority to – not in relation to how strong they are going to be in 20 years anyway. Nevertheless, building strong bones in adolescent and teenage years is crucial to having strong bones throughout life and into old age. Some older men and [...]

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What You Need to Know About Healthy Bones

Maintaining the Ageing Brain for Wellness

Paul Rogers — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 05:07:51 +0000

The brain wears out; it’s as simple (or as complex) as that. The ageing brain has a propensity to lose function, but you can do a lot to slow or halt this progress. Various dementias and Alzheimer’s disease are possible outcomes. Both result in substantial and progressive loss of mental capacity — and in the case [...]

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Maintaining the Ageing Brain for Wellness

Why You Can’t Substitute Fat and Protein for Carbohydrate in Athletic Endeavour

Paul Rogers — Mon, 31 May 2010 06:58:59 +0000

Low-carb dieting still has many followers after many years. Some people find it works for weight loss — if they can stick to it for any length of time. Yet the proponents and supporters of low-carbohydrate dieting are always looking for one more angle to boost the somewhat low credibility of low-carb eating among most [...]

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Why You Can’t Substitute Fat and Protein for Carbohydrate in Athletic Endeavour

The Truth About Saturated Fat

Paul Rogers — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 07:01:43 +0000

Traditional dietary advice for prevention of heart disease says we should keep our intake of saturated fat low and eat more unsaturated fats like vegetable seed and nut oils and olive oil, which have some saturated fat but are much higher in the polyunsaturated and monounsaturated fats. Although some vegetable oils like coconut and palm oils are high [...]

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The Truth About Saturated Fat

How to Improve Restrictive Diets with A Few Tweaks – Atkins, Ornish, Vegan

Paul Rogers — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 06:36:36 +0000

I’m not a big fan of low-carbohydrate diets, or most other restrictive diets for that matter. For one thing I’ve been doing hard exercise since I was 10 years old and I’m not about to stop anytime soon. You need optimal quantities of carbohydrates and a reasonable quantity of quality fats and protein for health [...]

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How to Improve Restrictive Diets with A Few Tweaks – Atkins, Ornish, Vegan

Acid and Alkaline Foods – What Are They?

Paul Rogers — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 05:45:36 +0000

We all know that citrus fruits and pineapple are acid foods: right? Coffee and tea are acid forming: right? Wrong. Much of what you may have read from the alternative health movement over many years is just that. Wrong! Here’s how it works. The body very carefully maintains a crucial balance of acidity and alkalinity in the [...]

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Acid and Alkaline Foods – What Are They?

A Low-Fat Mediterranean Diet – Is It Possible?

Paul Rogers — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 01:35:00 +0000

This may seem like a contradiction in terms for anyone who has been used to the propaganda that the traditional dietitians’ low-fat diet and the traditional Mediterranean diet are poles apart. Frankly, it’s bunkum. In fact, the differences between the early Mediterranean diets of Crete and similar regions, and a well-constructed low-fat diet are not much at all. Here’s what it [...]

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A Low-Fat Mediterranean Diet – Is It Possible?

What You Don’t Know About Saturated Fat That Could Harm You

Paul Rogers — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 01:22:29 +0000

What you probably do know is that most dietary recommendations say that you should keep your consumption of saturated fat and cholesterol in food low in order to lower your blood cholesterol and consequently your risk of heart disease. The usual recommendations are that saturated fat should be no more than 10% of total calories [...]

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What You Don’t Know About Saturated Fat That Could Harm You

Recommended Dietary Intakes – Do You Need Supplements?

Paul Rogers — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 01:32:45 +0000

Here’s a quick definition of RDIs — or RDAs as they are called in some countries. Recommended Dietary Intakes (RDIs) (or allowances, RDA) are the levels of intake of essential nutrients considered, in the judgment of national health and nutrition authorities on the basis of available scientific knowledge, to be adequate to meet the known nutritional needs [...]

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Recommended Dietary Intakes – Do You Need Supplements?

The Diet Wars Really Are Over

Paul Rogers — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 03:41:48 +0000

John Tierney over at TierneyLab recently had a bit to say about the New England Journal of Medicine study that compared an American Heart Association low-fat diet with Atkins and Mediterranean diets. I’ve discussed the details and the implications in a longer page post called Diet Wars, but the upshot of this and many other [...]

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The Diet Wars Really Are Over