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9 Tasty Weight Loss Snacks
Snacking while trying to lose weight actually helps your efforts. For one thing, snacking gives your body some needed fuel between meals. Sometimes dieting can deplete your nutrient or enzyme levels. If you are starting to lose steam before lunchtime or feeling some fatigue between lunch and dinner, then a nutritious snack could give you the boost you need.
So You Think You Can Drink Your Vitamins? Juicing vs Smoothies
The juicing craze has slowed down, but it looks like it will be around for a good while. Obviously, as a snack or meal replacement instead of fast food, juicing is a huge plus, but for meeting your daily nutritional requirements, it has some serious drawbacks. So, before you put all your eggs (or vitamins) in one blender, let’s look a bit deeper.
Why We Need To Boost Digestion
While indigestion has always been an issue, for a long time it experts thought it to be a byproduct of poor eating habits. Professionals have now begun to recognize a number of afflictions which can be linked to the malabsorption of nutrients. Many of these are now being identified as being due to a lack of / or problem with an individual’s digestive enzymes.
You Are What You Digest
It is important to understand that digestion is the foundation of your health and health is the measurement of how efficiently the cells in your body conduct thousands of life functions. These functions are possible only when enough energy and raw materials are present, and digestion is the process that makes these things available. Thus, the saying, “You are what you eat” or “You are what you absorb” should instead be, “You are what you digest.”