Health

by: John Gibb

Nutrition for a healthy lifestyle can be a large step in maintaining your body’s physical performance and your mind’s well-being. Proper nutrition is often neglected in this day and age, with most people opting for fast food’s convenience and low price. However, there are plenty of foods you can eat that are simple to prepare and low in cost that can help give your body the materials it needs to be in its best working condition.

by: Chris Robertson

Health food doesn't need a definition, does it? We all know what health food is it's yogurt and granola, whole-grain cereal and organically grown vegetables and fruit. It's 100% natural, no preservatives or dyes, unadulterated, pure. When you put all that together, you should have healthy food, yet all too often, what's marketed as health food these days barely classifies as food, let alone health food.

by Eli Davidson

“You have got to be out of your mind” was a sentence Isabella was getting used to hearing. Friend after friend rolled her eyes as she told them of her plans. Isabella was 80 years old, for God’s sake! No amount of eye rolling was going to dissuade her. Even if her friends were moving into assisted living facilities, she was going to build a new home in Montecito and give it to her favorite charity. No strings attached. Except that her gift remain anonymous.

by VC Staffers

Tomato - the rich red classy fruit has been a mainstay of kitchens and evokes images of juice trickling down our chins as we take a deep bite of a fresh firm fruit.

Widely found and easily cultivatable in kitchen gardens, the tomato has found its way from farms and fields to the small manicured gardens that are now a part of urban life. The fruit can be grown easily in flowerpots and in small patches of soil wherever sunlight is available.

by VC Staffers

Our traditional image of the couch potato tossing nuts into his mouth and falling ill is wrong. It now seems that the nut tossing individual was right all along. He surely knew something we did not. Modern research has now proved that people who consume nuts regularly have much better health in comparison to those who do not.

Detailed Studies

One study is particularly interesting. 31000 whites (Californian Seventh Day Adventists) were studied to determine their health and nut consumption patters. The study found that sex, age, exercise patterns, eating habits and similar characteristics were irrelevant. In this group, those who ate nuts regularly had a 60% lesser incidence of heart trouble as compared to those who ate them once a month or less. The study was repeated with African Americans with similar results. The health benefits of nuts were so startling that more studies were done which proved that regular nut consumption reduced heart disease, Type II diabetes, dementia and gallstones.