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Archive for October, 2007

Steam your cabbage, preserve the nutrients -

Broccoli, brussel sprouts and other members of the cabbage family contain glucosinolates, powerful cancer fighting nutrients. The down side is that these nutrients are partly lost by cooking the food. With cooked broccoli 23 percent is lost, with sprouts 42 percent and with colliflower 25 percent. If you want to preserve the glucosinolates it is […]

Popularity: 24% [?]

Athletes sensitive to vitamin B shortage -

Athletes, who use a lot of vitamin B, are very sensitive to a shortage of these vitamins. This is the result of a large literature study into the subject published in the International Journal of Sports Medicine. A shortage of vitamin B has an immediate negative impact on athletic performance, recovery capacity and the immune […]

Popularity: 15% [?]

Food is getting more and more sweet -

British researchers are concerned about the fact our food is getting more and more sweet. By adding big amounts of sugar to our food they are no longer as healthy as they were 30 years ago. Especially breakfast cereals, whole wheat bread and soups have been make a lot sweeter. In some cases the sugar […]

Popularity: 6% [?]

Slimming down with nuts -

Nuts are very healthy, but because they also contain a lot of calories many people don’t eat them. Now Spanish research with 9000 people shows that people who ate nuts at least two times a week had 31% less chance to gain more than 5 kilos in the 28 months of the research. So nuts […]

Popularity: 7% [?]