Tag: sugar
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5 Foods that can Cause Cancer
Many everyday foods increase the risk of cancer and some of them can even promote it. Here are 5 categories of foods that can cause cancer and it would be good to limit their intake to a minimum because they act cumulatively and their negative effects after long-term frequent intake will be seen after several…
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Sugar and How It’s Linked to Cancer
It’s well known that sugar, in the form of glucose, is the main source of energy for every cell in our body. The same is true for cancer cells. However, cancer cells use glucose faster than many normal cells and absorb 10-12 times more sugar than healthy cells. Glucose in the growth of cancer cells…
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5 Food Categories to AVOID if You Have Arthritis
Arthritis is a group of diseases that affect the joints, causing inflammation, pain, swelling, and limited mobility. Arthritis affects people of all ages, but it is more common in older people and especially in women. The most common forms of arthritis are osteoarthritis (degenerative arthritis), rheumatoid arthritis, and gout. Other forms of arthritis are spondyloarthritis,…
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Foods and Drinks to Avoid if we have Diabetes
Diabetes affects your body’s ability to process sugar (glucose) in the blood. Eating a balanced diet can help people manage diabetes and reduce their risk of complications. Carbohydrates Carbohydrates are the body’s most important source of energy. The quality and quantity of carbohydrates we eat have the biggest impact on our blood sugar. There are…
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Sugar, is it Safe? and How Much Can we Eat Per Day?
The World Health Organization guideline for the intake of free sugars (monosaccharides such as glucose and fructose and disaccharides such as sugar, added to foods by the manufacturer, cook or consumer, and sugars naturally present in honey, syrups, fruit juices) in adults and children is to reduce it to less than 10% of total energy…
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Plant Based “Milks”(?)
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has decided that liquid products that come from plant sources and have a texture similar to milk can use the word “milk” on their labels. Soy, almond, coconut, pea, peanut, sesame “milk” are such plant products/beverages. Of course, just because the FDA said so does not mean that these…
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Nutrition for Candidiasis
Candidiasis is an infection by the Candida fungus and can affect parts of the body such as the skin, mouth, throat, genitals and blood. The Candida fungus is present in small inactive amounts in the human body, but can, with the decline of the body’s defenses, develop in warm and moist parts of the body.…
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Are they really Healthy Foods?
In recent years, when the internet has influenced all of our lives with the abundance of information options it gives us, we have noticed that the awareness of nutrition issues has increased and the interest is mainly focused on so-called healthy foods. Food companies could not remain without participation in this and immediately prepared foods…
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Celiac – Foods that DOES NOT contain Gluten
Gluten is a protein found in wheat, rye and barley. Any food made from wheat, barley or rye products contains gluten, some foods less and some more. Many people are sensitive to gluten, that is, to all products that contain it, but they do not cause damage to the small intestine as they do to…
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5 Best Nuts for Snack in Diabetes
Diabetes mellitus is a metabolic disease characterized by high blood glucose levels. The body produces less or no insulin (the hormone that promotes glucose into cells) or uses insulin in an ineffective way, resulting in an increase in the concentration of sugar (glucose) in the blood. The higher the levels of sugar/glucose that we consume…
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