You probably know that eating healthy, whole foods is the best way to get the vitamins and minerals that your body needs.

The shift back to food-focused nutrition is great because it benefits your health in so many ways that a vitamin cannot. However, there are some steps you can take to maximize the nutrition you get from food.

Plants With Meat

Have you heard about plant sterols? When they’re eaten in the forms of fruits and vegetables they can help reduce your LDL (bad) cholesterol and boost your HDL (good) cholesterol. When you eat vegetables with meat, the sterols actually help prevent the LDL cholesterol in meat from entering your blood stream. Continue reading →

The ads all say you should be taking a daily multivitamin. But, can you trust the ads? After all, they are companies trying to sell a product. So, should you believe what the ads say? Why should you take multivitamins? Is it really that important?

Getting your vitamins and minerals from food rather than supplements is the best method to ensure you are receiving all the nutrients your body needs.

However, there are several reasons this isn’t always going to work. Many of us just don’t eat right, and even when we do eat right, the nutritional levels in the foods we buy may not be as dense as they could be, or used to be. Multivitamins provide an easy way to get the nutrients you may be missing. Continue reading →

In order to eat well, you need to eat foods that will give you many nutrients without adding many calories. That’s why you should consider adding as many nutrient-dense foods to your diet so that you can keep your body healthy and eat fewer calories at the same time.

Here are the top five nutrient dense foods you should consider adding to your diet so that you can eat well and maintain a healthy weight at the same time:

1 – Salmon

Salmon is one of the fatty fishes, such as tuna and mackerel. It is rich in omega 3 fatty acids, which have been found to improve your health and decrease you risk of many different diseases. Omega 3 fatty acids aren’t made by the body and must be consumed in your food. Continue reading →