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Green Tea Weight Loss Patch

By: Heather Colman

The low carbohydrate or low-carb diet has been one of the most influential diet programs of recent years. The demand for other diet products has grown on the back of its success. Just one of the new trends that have been developed is the weight loss patch.

The idea for these adhesive rectangles originated from the nicotine replacement patch that has successfully helped many smokers to quit their habit. Many diets relied on people taking tablets or capsules to encourage a smaller food intake.

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Asian green tea and Weight Loss

By: Bill Nad

Asian green tea has been around for thousands of year. It is believed that Asian green tea was discovered by a Asian emperor by accident. It comes from the same plant, Camellia Sinensis, as traditional black tea and oolong tea.

For centuries, Asian medicine has used it to treat headaches, digestive problems, lack of energy, and immune enhancement. The Asian diet green tea is produced by steaming the fresh tea leaves at high temperatures, leaving a significant part of the nutritional enzyme content intact.

Different from the black and oolong tea, the green tea is never fermented. Instead, its leaves bypass the fermenting process and steamed, baked or pan heated. The leaves are rolled and those tightly rolled leaves have long been considered as a sign of quality.

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Risks of Dietary Supplements

By: Chris Chenoweth

A dietary supplement is a product that is intended to provide enhancement or improvement to your diet that contains vitamins, minerals, amino acids, herbs or other botanicals. It is taken orally as a pill, capsule, or liquid.

There are now thousands of dietary supplements on the market. Most contain vitamins and minerals that supplement the nutrients we can be missing from our regular diets. There are also products that do not contain vitamins or minerals, but other ingredients like botanicals, herbs, enzymes and amino acids.

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Top Super Foods

By: Chris Chenoweth

There are some foods that are considered to be incredibly nutritious for your body, helping you to reduce your risk for many diseases and conditions. Eating these foods regularly can help you live longer and healthier.

SOY:

Whole soy foods are a great source of protein and contain other nutrients such as fiber, B vitamins, essential omega-3 fatty acids, zinc, and iron. Foods containing soy protein are a healthy alternative to meats and other animal products that contain cholesterol and saturated fat, because they provide all the amino acids, a type of nutrient that people need to stay healthy.

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Protein - Its Place In Your Weight Loss Program

By: Kay Blackiston

Any food that we take into our bodies is composed of macronutrients, micronutrients and water. The macronutrients (macro = large) are protein, fat and carbohydrates; the micronutrients (micro = small) are vitamins, minerals and trace elements.

Macronutrients provide the calories that provide energy for life; micronutrients have no calories but are an essential part of our diet. Without macronutrients we would starve to death, without micronutrients we would die from health deterioration.

So, What Exactly is Protein?

Technically speaking proteins are any of a large group of nitrogenous (containing nitrogen) compounds of high molecular weight that are essential constituents of all living organisms. They consist of 22 biological compounds called amino acids. (more…)