Hunger and Appetite Because you need food to live, your body is no slouch at letting you know that it’s ready for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and maybe a few sna...
Why We Need Water? Your body is mostly (50 to 70 percent) water. Exactly how much water depends on how old you are and how much muscle and fat you have. Muscl...
Nutrition - Phytochemicals Did you take French literature in high school or college? If your answer is no, you may as well skip to the third sentence in the paragraph...
Who Need Extra Minerals? If your diet provides enough minerals to meet the RDAs, you’re in pretty good shape most of the time. But a restrictive diet, the circumsta...
Overdoses and Underdoses of Minerals The Recommended Dietary Allowances (RDAs) and Adequate Intakes (AIs) for minerals and trace elements are generous allowances, large enough ...
How My body Uses Minerals? Minerals are elements, substances composed of only one kind of atom. They’re inorganic (translation: They don’t contain the carbon, hydroge...
Who Needs Extra Vitamins? Maybe you. The RDAs are designed to protect healthy people from deficiencies, but sometimes the circumstances of your life (or your lifesty...
Too Much or Too Little Vitamin RDAs are broad enough to prevent vitamin deficiencies and avoid the side effects associated with very large doses of some vitamins. If your...
The Value of Vitamins Vitamins are organic chemicals, substances that contain carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen. They occur naturally in all living things, plants and...
Fiber and Your Heart Oat bran is the second chapter in the fiber fad that started with wheat bran around 1980. Wheat bran, the fiber in wheat, is rich in the in...