Tag: vegetables
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5 Food Categories for when we’re Really Hungry

Hunger is the body’s natural need to eat in order to gain energy and continue performing its basic functions and meet its nutritional needs. Hunger appears gradually and can be postponed, unless too many hours have passed without food intake. When we are hungry, there is no desire and need for a specific food. A…
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10 Nutritional Tips and Foods for Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS)

Polycystic ovary syndrome is an endocrine problem that has different forms of clinical expression. It affects the body by disrupting the balance of hormones, resulting in ovulation not occurring or occurring rarely. It is considered one of the main causes of infertility. Polycystic ovary syndrome is the most common gynecological endocrine disorder and in addition…
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7 Foods to Avoid with Hemorrhoids

Hemorrhoids are normally found inside the anus. They help with defecation and stool retention, they look like small sacs filled with blood and are venous plexuses. When these sacs lose their support due to the constant and intense effort to defecate, they hang outside the anus, fill with blood and swell. Complications of hemorrhoids are…
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Nutrition for Healthy Preschoolers (PART 1 – the content of nutrition)

In the last 20 years, lifestyle has brought significant blows to the nutrition of preschool children. Nowadays, our young children eat less breakfast, consume less homemade food, while the intake of ready-made food that is not prepared at home has increased. Unfortunately, they now get more calories from snacks, consume more fried foods and foods…
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Foods that increase histamine

Histamine is a substance that is mainly involved in the functions of the immune and central nervous systems. Histamine initiates an inflammatory reaction to alert the body’s immune system to a possible attack. This inflammatory reaction causes blood vessels to dilate in order for white blood cells to act faster against the infectious agent. The…
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Summer Nutrition

When it is very hot (heat wave) the body naturally increases sweating, thus maintaining its temperature within normal limits. In the summer the body does not need as many calories as in the winter and this is because…. it gets hotter. The calorie is a unit of measurement of heat, so with more calories we…
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Vitamin C

Vitamin C, also known as ascorbic acid, contributes to the normal formation of collagen for the normal function of blood vessels, bones, cartilage, gums, teeth, skin, and acts as an antioxidant, helping to protect cells from oxidative stress that causes an increase in free radicals, which are considered the main cause of cellular aging. Vitamin…
