Expert Author: Emilia Klapp, R.D., B.S. | Category: Heart Disease Too often, different dietary plans are presented to us disguised as an Authentic Mediterranean Plan or Diet when the reality is that they have very little to do with it. Here are the 10 points that constitute an Authentic Mediterranean Diet.
Expert Author: Emilia Klapp, R.D., B.S. | Category: Heart Disease Research shows that we can derive the same benefits from fish than from fish oil capsules as far as Omega-3 fats is concerned, since both do an equally good job at enriching the blood and other body tissues with healthy omega-3 fatty acids.
Expert Author: Emilia Klapp, R.D., B.S. | Category: Heart Disease According to new research, watermelon juice has been found to be a new source of the essential amino acid arginine. Our body needs arginine to produce nitric oxide, which has been shown to lower blood pressure, reduce blood clotting and protect against heart attacks and strokes.
Expert Author: Emilia Klapp, R.D., B.S. | Category: Heart Disease Interest in the Mediterranean diet with its high content of Omega-3 fatty acids from fish has skyrocketed in recent years, after it has been observed that people living in regions bordering the Mediterranean Sea appeared to live longer and suffer less from cardiovascular disease. In particular, a Mediterranean diet that includes fish has long been associated with a low rate of heart disease in countries such as Spain, Greece, and Italy.
Expert Author: Emilia Klapp, R.D., B.S. | Category: Diabetes If patients with pre-diabetes lose between 5 and 7 per cent of their weight and they exercise half an hour every day, five days a week, the risk to develop diabetes type 2 mellitus can be lowered by 60 per cent in 3 years. In Part I of these two articles I indicated that obesity is the major risk factor for Diabetes Type 2, also known as Diabetes Mellitus. To understand how obesity can take you to a diagnosis of diabetes type 2, let us check a few facts.
Expert Author: Emilia Klapp, R.D., B.S. | Category: Diabetes Obesity is becoming one of the major risk factors for type 2 diabetes in industrialized countries; obese people have a much higher risk to develop the disease - about 8 times higher - than people who have a normal weight. Researchers don’t have to rack their brains to figure out the whys and wherefores of the high Type II Diabetes incidence that plagues us nowadays because the reason is quite obvious: our lifestyle.
Chinese food appeals to many of us because it is tasty and relatively inexpensive. We are also under the impression that Chinese cuisine is healthy as it includes large portions of vegetables and low amounts of fat. That’s true when the dishes are prepared the traditional Chinese way in China. But American-Chinese restaurants have modified their food for American tastes and as a result, it is not as healthy as the traditional one.
Expert Author: Emilia Klapp, R.D., B.S. | Category: Heart Disease For several decades, the widespread use of antibiotics has ignored the medical properties of garlic. Lately, however, interest in garlic has escalated and nowadays research is focusing on the role garlic plays in the prevention and control of heart disease.
Expert Author: Emilia Klapp, R.D., B.S. | Category: Cholesterol Studies have shown that people who eat dry beans regularly have a lower risk of suffering from heart disease than the ones who barely eat them. One main reason is because they lower cholesterol. For centuries, legumes or dry beans, as they are commonly known, have been a staple food in the Mediterranean countries where they have played an important part in the fight against heart disease.
During my childhood and teenager years I ate fruits and vegetables because my mother told me I had to eat them. After I left my parents’ house, I kept eating various fruits and vegetables on a regular basis because I was used to do it (not a bad reason in this particular case). However, when I moved from my hometown in Spain to the United States, I decided that I was too busy to eat fruits and vegetables. I was always in a rush. So a piece of Kentucky Fried Chicken and a biscuit for lunch became the norm.
Expert Author: Emilia Klapp, R.D., B.S. | Category: Cholesterol According to experts, walking at least 5 days a week is one of the best ways to be in good shape. It is a healthy exercise and it is easy to perform. It’s not expensive –a pair of good tennis shoes will do it- and it is free. If you don’t feel like going to the gym, here is what you can do to have great cardiovascular benefits.
The B vitamins have common dietetic sources such as whole grains, legumes, eggs, dairy products, meat, meat organs, fish and yeast. They are soluble in water and are quickly assimilated by our body. Since they are also eliminated through the urine, we have to ingest them in a daily basis through our diet. These vitamins perform many functions in our body; they are in charge of carrying out physical and chemical processes that keep us alive and healthy. Within this group we find...
Expert Author: Emilia Klapp, R.D., B.S. | Category: Heart Disease According to U.S. General Surgeon, heart attacks and strokes are highly preventable. Thus, if more people die from heart disease than from any other illness, we need to give a serious consideration to why this is happening so we can prevent being part of the American Heart Association’s statistics. In this article you will find the 7 main reasons why we die of heart disease.
Expert Author: Emilia Klapp, R.D., B.S. | Category: Weight Loss As many of us know, the virtues of the Mediterranean cuisine reside in the selection of its basic elements: fruits and vegetables, grains, fish and seafood, olive oil and red wine in moderation. But are we aware that a very important element of this diet is the portion sizes?
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