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sxc.hu: bluegum
A soft food diet may be recommended by your doctor if you have swallowing difficulties, or if you’ve had surgery of the jaw, mouth or gastrointestinal tract.
While it can be difficult, especially in the early days, your diet doesn’t have to be boring.
Thankfully, it’s much more than a soup and jelly diet!
sxc.hu: cobrasoft
Recently one of my readers emailed and said,
“This maybe sounds weird because you always teach us how to lose weight, so do others, but how can I gain weight? I’m a 178cm tall guy, but I only weigh 55kg.”
Far from being weird, this is a really great question.
I do deal quite a bit with how to lose weight on this blog. But, gaining weight can also be a major problem for some. The issue for most is knowing exactly how to gain weight safely.
sxc.hu: lusi
The guidelines have recently changed concerning eating peanuts during pregnancy and breastfeeding.
Here in the UK, the advice was that peanuts and peanut products may need to be avoided during pregnancy and breastfeeding if your baby was at high risk (i.e. had a parent or sibling with allergic conditions such as hay fever, asthma and/or eczema).
This was precautionary advice, based on the concern that by eating peanuts there may be a transfer through to the developing infant, which could affect whether they would develop a peanut allergy in childhood. Click to Read More »»
sxc.hu: evah
Do you know people who always seem to be sick?
I know I do, and I often attribute it to their unhealthy diet–I know I’m a bit biased!! But, I really do think if you eat well, you’ll feel well.
Now this isn’t to say you’ll never get sick, but in my opinion a healthy lifestyle goes a long way to helping you ward off colds and flues.
So, what exactly can you do to help prevent flu? Click to Read More »»
sxc.hu: wgroesel
In order to function properly, the body requires vitamins and minerals daily. And, if health problems exist, such as high blood pressure, this is good reason to supplement the body with additional vitamins and minerals.
Examples of important vitamins are folic acid, thiamin, riboflavin, vitamins A, C, E, and D. While important minerals include calcium, phosphorous, iodine, iron, magnesium, and zinc. Click to Read More »»
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