Eating For Health

Are you getting your daily vitamin C?   Growing up everyone had juice glasses in their homes and almost everyone drank some real, 100% juice for breakfast.   This could be orange juice, tomato juice or grapefruit juice.   Now, juice glasses are a rarity in people’s home.   And, rather than real, 100% juice, the people that do drink “juice” often choose a fake juice or a fruit drink that contains little or no juice.   But you do not have to drink juice to get enough vitamin C.   Many fruits and vegetables are rich in C. What is vitamin C?   Vitamin C is an essential vitamin that is also known as ascorbic acid.   What does “essential” mean?   It means your body does not make vitamin C and you need to “eat it to get it”. Since it is water-soluble vitamin, your body does not store it and you should eat some vitamin C rich foods every day.   How does vitamin C help keep you healthy? Some people hear “vitamin C” and they think of colds...

Most people know we need vitamin C daily.   Are you getting the vitamin C you need each day?   Just because a fruit drink is labelled rich in vitamin C, it doesn’t mean it is a healthy choice.   What foods and beverages have vitamin C and why do our bodies need vitamin C? Enjoy some vitamin C rich foods every day. What is vitamin C? You may see “vitamin C” on a label or you may see its scientific name, ascorbic acid, on a label.   Our bodies don’t make vitamin C so we must get this important vitamin from the foods we eat or the juices we drink.   Why do our bodies need vitamin C? Healthy Skin : Vitamin C is important to our bodies in so many ways.   Want healthy skin?   Then eat foods rich in vitamin C as vitamin C helps our bodies boost collage production.   To make collagen, your body needs vitamin C.   Vitamin C not only supports collagen production, it helps stimulates collagen production .   Vitamin C also protects your ...

Growing up it was common for people to have a glass of juice with breakfast.   If you eat the hotel breakfast, they usually offer a selection of juices.   Today, many people eat a grab-and-go breakfast and never think about drinking some real juice.   Or, they buy what they think is “real juice” and have a glass of what really isn’t juice.   In fact, some “juice” people drink has no juice in it at all.   Are you drinking real or fake juice?   A student in my class told me they bought SunnyD for their family to drink as their “juice’.   When I said Sunny D isn’t real, 100% juice, the student commented, “But it is cheaper than juice”.   Yes, it is cheaper because so little of it is real juice.   It is mostly sugar water. Consumer Reports has a good article, Decoding Fruit Juice Labels .    And one really has to look at the label to find out if it is real juice, some juice or no juice.   As the CR nutritionist notes, “Juice...