Health E-Education

Your Foods For Health Eating

Healthyou — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 15:25:53 +0000

This blog is about consumer health education. The program is about reducing or eliminating avoidable health risk factors that make us sick.

Healthy eating is all about eliminating the unhealthy eating risk factor from our lifestyle.

The program teaches that there are four food groups.
Can you spot and identify them in this photo?

Here is a link to the healthy eating guide:Click Here.

Finding a Balance to Lose Weight

Healthyou — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 19:59:27 +0000

This video is about finding a balance in one’s lifestyle, the balance necessary to lose weight and prevent obesity.

The two methods for treating overweight /obesity are healthy eating and physical activity.

Even if other methods such as medication, surgery or behaviour modification are employed, these two are vital and must be included. This means finding a balance in lifestyle with them.

Balancing the calories eaten with the calories burn would involved healthy eating, calorie control and physical activity.

Watch this video and see how some individuals were able to make changes to their lifestyle by finding a balance with healthy eating and physical activity.

Health Eating+ Physical Activity

The health program of this blog can prepare you for lifestyle changes and provides resources to help you achieve this balance.

Non Communicable Diseases (NCD’s)

Healthyou — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 18:15:01 +0000

Non-communicable diseases, called NCD’s have become a 21st century health challenge. Whereas diseases such as HIV, malaria,tuberculosis and the H1N1 virus have been given global attention, they have gone un-noticed.

The World Health Organization (WHO)and the United Nation Secretary General called for urgent action to solve the catastrophe.

Watch this video.
United nations Highlights threat of Non-communicable diseases.

The major NCD’s take 67% of the global deaths, they are:
-Cancer
-Diabetes
-Cardiovascular disease
-COPD

This blog is about educating consumers to reduce health risk factors that cause these diseases. By taking action to reduce one or more of these risk factors you are playing a role in solving this catastrophe.

The risk factors are: smoking, physical inactivity, unhealthy eating,obesity and air pollution.

Making a New Year resolution to reduce or eliminate one of them is a way to prevent illness and premature deaths due to NCD’s.

To take an active role through this blog start with our tutorial on Health Risk Factors, the program is self-directed.

You may also join the program through Facebook by becoming a Fan.
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Testing Your Healthy Eating Knowledge

Healthyou — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 19:00:25 +0000

Have you ever taken the time to assess your plate, grocery shopping bag or pantry shelves?
Some of your food products may be unhealthy, but which ones. Test your knowledge by watching this video.

Watch this video
Which of these foods are healthy?

If you haven’t a clue, here is the healthy eating guide, you may use it.

You may also use the guide to check your answers.

Uncooked Chicken Liver Pate And Food Poisoining

Healthyou — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 23:29:06 +0000

If you are catering for parties during the holidays, and are planning to use liver pate , cook the liver well to prevent food poisoining.

The Foods Standards Agency (FSA) is reminding caterers to cook poultry liver well to prevent the infection.

Uncooked chicken liver pate often served at weddings was linked to food poisoining.

Researchers analysed 18 outbreaks of Campylobacter, the most common form of food poisoining in Great Britain.
In the study 443 people became sick and one had to be hospitalized.

The symptoms of the food poisoining are:
-Diarrhoea
-General malaise
-Stomach pain
-Fever
-Cramps

The report is advising caterers to reduce the risk of people becoming infected by ensuring the liver is well cooked. The liver is considered well cooked when the center is no longer pink.

The warning applies to anyone catering for a wedding or special event.

Drinking Coffee Health Benefits- How Much Is Safe?

Healthyou — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 00:51:00 +0000

Many research studies have identified health benefits in drinking coffee.
There have been some studies that have linked it to reduced risk of prostate cancer, breast cancer , depression and even alzheimer’s.

Health experts and health departments are calling for caution on its use. They are saying that coffee sold at coffee shops varies on how much caffeine is in a cup and that can be a problem.

They are especially concerned about pregnant women who are advised to reduce theirs.

The advice on how much is safe varies.

Pregnant women are advised to have a maximum of 200mg per day, while for others experts believe 400mg is safe.

Caution should be used in adding sugar, cream and milk to coffee because of the health risks of sugar and fat in the diet.

Coffee without sugar and low fat milk is a healthier choice especially for those who need to watch their weight.

Click Here to read more on the recommended daily limit.

Foods High In Added Sugar- Surprise!

Healthyou — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 23:06:17 +0000

Sugar is one of the enemies of healthy eating along with fat and salt.
Too much sugar is a risk factor for obesity, obesity related illnesses, diabetes, cardiovascuar disease, poor immune system and some cancers.

Sugar is suprisingly hidden inplace we may least expect.

There are some foods that are high in added sugar, ones we should be aware of. They were taken from an article in the USNews.

Here are the common ones mentioned:
-Fortune cookies
-Baked beans
-Dried swweetened cranberries
-Ketchup
-Cream substitutes
-BBQ sauce
-Lemonade
-Granola bars

Read about each in more detail.

Consumers involved in our health program learn how to eat without added sugar; they learn how to make choices that will eliminate it from their eating plan.

Subscribing to the newletter method of this program is one way to participate.
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Unhealthy Eating Habits May affect Sperm Quality

Healthyou — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 00:16:17 +0000

According to a recent study a healthy diet produces healthy sperms.

In one study involving 18-22 year olds, researchers used factor analysis and identifid the participants diets as two types.

In one group participants ate a western diet of high intake of red meat and refined grain.

A second group ate a prudent diet of high intake of fish, vegetables and whole grain.

Researchers found the prudent diet to be associated with higher sperm motility.

In another study, men attending a fertility center completed food journals and underwent semen analysis.
Researchers found that a diet high in trans fat was negatively associated with sperm concentration.

Based on the findings researchers are continiuing to explore the impact of nutrition on male fertility.

Men, as it is with women, must include healthy eating in family planning.

Would Eating Slowly Help Weight Loss? Study

Healthyou — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 15:45:57 +0000

Researchers are working on studies that could determine whether eating slowly can help with weight control.
They are hoping to get a better understanding of how food,exercise, medication and sleep affect weight.

One of their first experiment is on the speed of eating.
This is a report on one of four patients taking part in the experiment.

Watch this Video.

A Collection Of Weight Loss Tips

Healthyou — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 18:37:15 +0000

Here is a collection of weight loss tips that I want to share with you, there are 25 of them.

My favourite eight are:
1-Set realistic goals.
Losing 5-10% of your present body weight is realistic, even the small changes help.

2-Weigh Regularly

3-Get help from family and friends.

4-Move it to lose it.
I developed a list of daily habits to modify a sedentary lifestyle. These habits once adopted will increase your level of activity without utilizing more than 24 hours in a day.
Click here to see them.

5-Clean out your refrigerator and pantry.
This one I love. Grocery cleaning and shopping are included in the weight loss program that I created. Anyone following this program will be doing so to develop their own unique plan.

6-Make some stealth changes.

7-Stock up on impulse fruits.

8-Keep track.
Keeping a diet and activity diary is vital to your success. Experts recommend them as there is evidence that they work.

Read about the entire collection, It mentions 25 of them.

Develop your own weight loss plan using our self-developed plan.
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