BALANCED DIET A balanced diet is one that provides an adequate intake of energy and nutrients for maintenance of the body and therefore good health. A diet can easily be adequate for normal bodily functioning, yet may not be a balanced diet. An ideal human diet contains fat, protein, carbohydrate...

Vitamin supplements: What do most Americans need? Vitamin supplements: What do most Americans need? That is the question I will be attempting to answer in the following few pages. To start, I will talk about their beginning as well as their recent growth in popularity in the past decade. I wi...

Energy and Nutrition Being a young adult can be overwhelming and exciting. Every one says that young adults don't care about health, heart attacks, cancer or dying-only about hair, nails, weight and cloths. Young adults don't care to learn about nutrition. They think everyone is agains...

The sports world has a plethora of products including pills, potions and tonics that provide loads of promises to give the athlete that winning edge. Their promises include improved performance, better endurance, increased strength and better recovery. These can be achieved by...

You Are What You Eat People are, as the expression goes, what they eat. After all, the muscles in a person’s body, and the blood flowing through their veins, are all supplied by the food that he or she consumes. Understandably, these foods would also have an effect on the way the br...

Sports Nutrition and Athletic Performance If you exercise regularly or if you are an athlete in training, you are trying to make your muscles work better. You want to be stronger if you are a weightlifter, you want to be able to throw a blistering fast ball if you are a baseball pitcher or you wa...

Hypoglycemia About four years ago we started to notice that my dad was having problems sleeping, he was very moody, and he started getting headaches a lot. After it got to a point where my dad was feeling bad every day we all started to worry. So as any normal person would do, my dad went to the ...

Life today is not like how it was before. Along time ago, people ate foods that are very good for their health. They ate foods that do not contain chemicals, preservatives, artificial colors, and artificial flavors. People also had a lot of time to cook their own foods. Therefore those people were n...