5 Ways to Make Your Diet More Heart Healthy
Did you know that heart disease is the 2nd leading cause of death in Canada? Diet can play a big role in reducing the risk and preventing heart disease.
5 Tips for Finding a Good Online Weight-Loss Program
Seeing your health practitioner virtually used to be reserved for accessing specialists remotely but now you can meet many of your health needs online these days. Tele-health is still a relatively new approach to health care, but has been shown to be very effective...
Micronutrient Monday: Vitamin B2
Vitamin B2 isn’t nearly as popular or trendy as vitamin C, but it’s still an important micronutrients for keeping us healthy. Often known as riboflavin, vitamin B2 is a water-soluble naturally found in some foods, added to some food products, and...
Micronutrient Monday: Vitamin C
At some point in your life, someone has probably suggested you take vitamin C to fend off a cold, or prevent you from getting one in the first place.
But what is this miracle vitamin thats protects us from all these germs?
Vitamin C (sometimes called L-ascorbic acid) is one (of many) water-soluble vitamins that we require to stay healthy. It can be found abundantly throughout our diet, and developing a deficiency is quite rare.
Top 5 Foods to Avoid for Weight Loss
Weight loss doesn’t just happen overnight, and any diet promising to help you drop 10 pounds in a week is definitely too good to be true. Weight loss takes time and changes in not just your lifestyle but also your diet too.
Micronutrient Monday: Vitamin B6
Vitamin B6 (also known as pyridoxine) is one of eight B vitamins. Our bodies are not able to produce vitamin B6, so we need to get this vitamin from our foods and supplements.
Unlike vitamins D and E, vitamin B6 (and all the other B vitamins) is water-soluble. This means that excess amounts of the vitamin are not stored in the body, but rather lost in urine.
Low Calorie, High FODMAP
Normally, low-calorie sweeteners pose no risk to us (unless consuming in huge amounts) but, they can be troublesome for individuals with GI conditions. But for some, this could be aggravating GI conditions and triggering unpleasant symptoms.