A crucial aspect in your daily dietary needs, fiber helps with weight loss in various ways, provides essential benefits for nutrition and can contribute to good health by preventing digestive problems, diabetes and heart disease.

What is Fiber?

A wide variety of descriptions exist for this indigestible material. But in general, it is referred to as threadlike and elongated structures in grains, vegetables and fruits that the human body cannot absorb or digest. For decades, it has been considered the ultimate food ingredient for preventing constipation, as well as, maintaining bowel regularity.

In some cases, it also regarded as an indigestible carbohydrate. Aside from roughage, fiber is also often called bulk. You may call it whatever you want, just as long as you realize that it’s a very essential part of a healthy diet. Continue reading →

While they are not, technically, a vegetable, seaweeds are often called sea vegetables. They are an integral part of Japanese cooking.

Cultures around the world, in fact, partake of various forms of sea vegetables. Practitioners of macrobiotics rely on seaweed as a staple food.

There are quite a few different types of these sea-dwelling, edible plants, all of which have great nutritional value. Here are some of the more common seaweeds, and the nutrients present in them: Continue reading →

The bad news is, if you’re 30 years old, your bone density is already started to decline. Considering our lifespan now is around 75 to 80 years, that’s pretty scary.

Why? Because over half our lifetime will be spent with less and less bone density.

The good news is, proper nutrition can help slow, and even stop, bone loss. Starting a diet program that is rich in bone supporting nutrients is key to avoiding bone loss from becoming a critical issue.

Let’s take a look at some of the best nutrients and vitamins to preserve and build your bones:

Vitamin B12

This vitamin is responsible for creating new blood cells in the bone marrow. People with lower levels of vitamin B12 experience greater bone loss than people with adequate vitamin B12. Eggs, dairy, and meats are good sources for vitamin B12. Continue reading →