The Best Vegetables for a Healthy Diet
If you are aiming to have a healthy diet then including an ample amount of fruits and vegetables is a plan that you can't really go wrong with! These foods are high in nutrients, low in calories, and low in saturated fat - making them all-round winners for supporting good health.
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Get Your Five A Day The Simple Way
Including at least five portions of fruits and vegetables in your diet every day is generally widely accepted as good nutrition guidance. If your diet does not currently include many fruits or vegetables, then this may initially seem like a difficult task!
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Choosing Healthy Carbohydrates
Carbohydrates are an important food group and are generally considered to be essential to optimum health. This is something that we have explored more extensively in a previous article. Today we are going to take a closer look at which foods are arguably the best carbohydrate sources for a healthy diet.
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Surprising Foods for Healthy Bones
The role that our bones play when it comes to overall health and fitness is not to be ignored! While we have long been told that dairy milk is beneficial for the optimum health of our bones, there is increasing evidence that points to other foods perhaps being of greater benefit!
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The Importance of Hydration
We talk frequently on the Onto Orthopedics blog about the essential things that your body needs to survive, thrive and be as healthy as possible. However, we have not paid much attention to the most important thing of all - water!
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Simple Steps to a Healthy Diet
Exercise and proper nutrition are the two best ways to keep the body and the bones as healthy as possible. Both of these things can often become neglected when we lead such busy lives and have many demands put upon our limited time. This can often cause people to choose unhealthy fast foods that they can buy from an establishment instead of cooking for themselves. Although this may appear to save time and money in the short term, it will do extensive detrimental things to your long term health and is simply not worth it!
Junk Food and Bone Health
The connection between junk food and poor bone development has been researched extensively with reports being presented in the popular journal, Osteoporosis International. The research has suggested that those who grow up within close proximity to several fast food establishments are more likely to consume junk food, and they have discovered a link between the presence of these food choices in the diet and poor bone development.