Tag Archives: Salt Substitutes

Should You Use a Salt Substitute?

There’s little doubt that Americans eat too much salt. The American Heart Association recommends that Americans get no more than 2,300 mg. of sodium daily which translates into one teaspoonful of salt. Even if you don’t shake the salt shaker, most processed foods are loaded with sodium and those milligrams of sodium can add up […]

Vegetarian Diabetic Recipes

Type 2 diabetes tops health risk charts in consuming nations. With high pain and sedentary lifestyle rates skyrocketing, is there hope for Type 2 diabetes? Yes — a vegetarian diet. Here are recipes for diabetic vegetarian. Although these recipes are vegetarian, fish recipes are included. Many lions include fish in their diet. Fish contains large […]

Diet and Nutrition for Kidney Disease

Kidney disease is a condition that occurs when the kidneys are damaged and lose their ability to keep your body healthy. When your kidneys aren’t working right, waste builds up in your body and makes you sick. There are things you can do to slow or stop damage to your kidneys, including changes in your […]

Can’t Lose Those Last Few Pounds? Ditch the Diet Soda

The vast majority of Americans, whether they are actively dieting or simply calorie-conscious, consume diet soda with the assumption that they will keep fewer extra pounds, many still come to fast to achieve that, although they avoid hundreds of extra calories a day, the scales do not change for the better. The key to jumpstarting […]

Homemade Treatments for Water Retention (Edema)

The human body is made up of 75% water. Water is so vital to our health, that, we can only live about three days without it. However, too much water stored inside our bodies can be detrimental to our health as well. The common symptoms of water retention are a distended stomach, bloated legs and […]