Intermittent fasting has fast become a diet trend worth noting. For the past two years, the IFIC Foundation’s Food and Health Survey has found that intermittent fasting…
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What is Potassium?
Highlights Potassium plays a vital role in nearly every aspect of our health. It’s responsible for regulating fluid balance and blood pressure, maintaining heart and kidney function,…
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What is the Paleo Diet?
Highlights The Paleo diet attempts to model the foods that may have been commonly eaten by humans during the Paleolithic era—meat, fish, fruits, vegetables, nuts and seeds. Some research has demonstrated a beneficial effect on body weight and…
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What is Calcium?
Highlights Calcium is the most abundant mineral in the body. It’s essential for bone health and proper functioning of the cardiovascular, muscular and nervous systems, among many…
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What is the Pegan Diet?
The pegan diet is a mash-up of two popular styles of eating: vegan and paleo. With the vegan diet’s strict adherence to animal-free eating and paleo’s reputation…
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What is Folate?
Highlights Folate is a water-soluble B-complex vitamin that is found in a variety of vegetables, legumes, pulses and animal foods. Folate is essential in our body for…
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What Is Mannitol?
Highlights Mannitol is a type of carbohydrate called a sugar alcohol, or polyol. Mannitol contains about 60 percent fewer calories than sugar and is half as sweet. Mannitol occurs naturally in fresh mushrooms, brown algae, tree bark…
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What is Chromium?
Highlights Chromium is used by our bodies for carbohydrate, fat, and protein metabolism, and is essential for maintaining normal blood sugar. Chromium supplementation may be beneficial in…
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What is Sorbitol?
Highlights Sorbitol is a type of carbohydrate called a sugar alcohol, or polyol. Sorbitol contains about one-third fewer calories than sugar and is 60 percent as sweet….
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