Eating For Health

Everyone is complaining about high grocery prices.   And groceries have gotten more expensive.   What are some superfoods that you might want to add to your grocery list?        1.   Choose Extra Virgin Olive Oil over Coconut oil For years my students would say coconut oil was the healthier oil.   I always taught them that was not the case.   Still many people swear by coconut oil, even putting it in their morning coffee.   And many cook with coconut oil thinking this is a healthy thing to do.   What is so bad about coconut oil?   The high saturated fat content, “a whopping 12 grams of saturated fat per tablespoon.”   What’s the problem with saturated fat?   According to Medline Plus , ‘too much saturated fat can cause cholesterol build up in your arteries (blood vessels).   Saturated fats raise your LDL (bad) cholesterol.   High LDL cholesterol increases your risk of heart disease and stroke.”   ...

So many commercials on TV advertise how one can ease their chronic pain and inflammation with one product after another.   But rarely is there anything about nutrition and chronic pain.   My daughter gave me an interesting article she found in the Cooperative Living magazine, Slowing Pain.   A nutritional approach for easing chronic pain .   While medications and therapies are common treatments, nutrition also plays a crucial role in managing these conditions.   How can you use nutrition to help ease chronic pain and inflammation?   What causes inflammation?   According to the Cleveland Clinic , “Inflammation is the body’s immune response to toxins as it works to “purify” itself.   The resulting inflammation not only causes pain in the body.   Over time, it also can trigger chronic diseases, such as heart disease and strokes, diabetes, Alzheimer’s disease and even depression.”   How can food help fight inflammation? The good news...