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nutrition & diet update

January 25th, 2007 by alameda

Cooking for Engineers
http://www.cookingforengineers.com/


Power Cooking!
– 9 ways to chop, sauté, and stir your way to better health
prevention.com
Wide variety of suggestions for food preparation and cooking to prevent loss of nutrients and increase the effectiveness through combination with other foods.

The Brain Diet: The Connection Between Nutrition, Mental Health, And Intelligence

The Brain Diet explains the connection between diet, mental health, and realizing the full potential of our intelligence. It shows how poor nutrition adversely affects our mental health and success, and what can be done to achieve our full intellectual capacity (and to help our children do the same).
Despite being just 2 percent of total adult weight, the human brain demands an enormous amount of energy and an ample flow of blood for it to work most effectively. Our ability to think, to reason, to create art and music, to develop technology and perform complex work, and much more is at stake in what we eat. The Brain Diet explains the science behind how our brains function and provides suggestions for eating a healthy diet.


Wii Sports Weight Loss?

Diet Blog

On the list of exercise ideas – I have listed “video games with movement”. It may seem improbable to link video games with exercise and even weight loss, but a gaming blogger has done a comprehensive experiment using the new Nintendo Wii.

comments on this Diet-Blog post…
Wii Sports is awesome in generating a sweat. The Boxing especially. 30 mins (for me) playing boxing is as tough as Tae-Bo. Cardio? Definately. I am already adding this gaming system to my exercise routine. Wii Sports also includes a Fitness Trainer. The system will randomly pick any 3 of the games (Boxing, Tennis, Golf, Baseball, and Bowling) and offer a great challenge.
A definate possibility for any video game lover!


Teenage Weight Loss: How and Why

Diet Blog

The book Weight Loss Confidential describes in detail how 104 young people (preteens and teenagers) were able to lose weight and keep it off for 2 years or more. Author Anne M. Fletcher interviewed 41 boys and 63 girls from the US and Canada and discovered what worked.

Weight Loss Confidential: How Teens Lose Weight and Keep It Off – and What They Wish Parents Knew
available from Amazon
Eating to Keep It Off
excerpt from the book (PDF) describing these strategies.


Nutrition News

Top 10 Sources
Lots of links to interesting nutrition blogs and individual posts.


Nutrition Alamanac

HealthNewsDigest.com
Just released – Nutrition Alamanac Sixth Edition


White Tea

Quest for a better brew
Interesting Thing of the Day
There is a good overview of the “nutition” of tea in the body of the article and links to a lot more information about tea in all colors.


Foodfacts.com

the world’s first credible and comprehensive source on food ingredients.
Diet Blog
Additional tools include a powerful diet and nutritional planner, weight tracker and food allergy alert system. There are links to a number of diseases and conditions with good descriptions and lists of foods that can affect them.

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