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Get Your Motor Running
Chromium plays an important role in carbohydrate metabolism and may also have some benefits in weight loss, athletic performance, and in lowering cholesterol.
This nutrient is the active component of the glucose tolerance factor, or GTF. Chromium works closely with insulin-a hormone produced in the pancreas and vital in the transport of glucose from the bloodstream into cells, where it is converted into energy. This essential trace mineral is found in tiny amounts in such foods as lean meats, vegetables, whole grain breads and cereals, and good old-fashioned brewer's yeast.
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A Pinch of Salt
It lurks in many surprising places: that half cup of cottage cheese you had with lunch; the mayonnaise, tuna fish, and bread of your sandwich-even your breakfast cereal.
Salt is everywhere, and though it's vital for many important bodily functions, too much can put your health at risk.
"Salt has many crucial functions in our body," says registered dietician Nina Hirvi of the Copeman Healthcare Centre. Sodium, one of salt's main chemical components, is the key to keeping a proper balance of water and other fluids throughout your body.
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Your New Beau-Tea Secret
Green tea is best known as a healthy drink, a wise alternative to coffee, and a superb choice for the daily dieter.
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Coffee with a Cause
Enlightened coffee drinkers know that their buying choices can make a difference to the lives and health of the workers who tend and harvest coffee.
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Living an Authentic Life
In a world where success is defined by money, and happiness is just a weight-loss plan away, many of us have lost sight of our most valuable asset: our true selves.
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No Bed of Roses
The good-night wish, "Sleep tight, don't let the bedbugs bite" may have lost its charm with the recent spate of bedbug outbreaks.
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Pharmed Rice
Greenpeace calls it cannibal rice-a genetically engineered grain containing human proteins that poses health and environmental hazards-but the company developing this product calls it a lifesaving treatment; their company website refers to it as a Holy Grail.
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Making Sense of Soy
Soy is the Jekyll and Hyde of the plant world. With reported benefi ts often contradicted by accounts of negative effects, confusion about soy's true nature abounds.
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Corn Kernels of Truth
Dare to start a conversation about bean sprouts or broccoli at a party and watch those around you drift off toward the punchbowl.
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