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In response to your desire to eat better, you have decided to reduce your intake of fried and desserts. Bravo! It is a very good start! But still remain on the lookout: several other foods, seemingly harmless, may cancel such beautiful efforts …

1. Salads
Of course, lettuce provides virtually no calories, and vegetables that provide added fiber and a host of antioxidants, vitamins and minerals. However, if your salad is bathed in vinaigrette, you may eat as many calories and fat if you eat a large serving of fries! For example, a Caesar salad (lettuce, croutons, Parmesan, chicken salad dressing and mayonnaise-based) contains 660 calories, 46 g fat and 11 grams of saturated fat. This corresponds to about one third of energy needs and fat to a healthy person for a day and more than half of the recommendations [Read the rest of this entry...]

It is a highly contagious respiratory disease that affected pigs. It produces one of the many influenza viruses. The mortality rate among humans, however, is low (between 1% and 4%). Infection is transmitted by direct contact with carrier animals, whose immune system is very similar to humans. Infections in humans are rare. Much more surprising is that it occurs between individuals.

The symptoms of swine flu are very similar to those of human influenza (cough, fever, headache and muscle pain), so it can get out of control if the guests of the virus do not attend promptly to the health authorities. The cases have been recorded in swine influenza infection in humans are scarce and the vast majority of cases have affected only people closely related to pig farms. [Read the rest of this entry...]

To keep your body all the nutrients it needs to function properly, made up the four major food groups, either 1) vegetables and fruit, 2) grain products, 3) and milk substitutes and 4) meat and substitutes, at every meal.

Vegetables and fruits
Vegetables and fruits are full of colorful nutrients: vitamins and mineral wealth of phyto chemicals, of the fiber and carbohydrates energy. All these elements will protect you against the adverse effects of aging, cancer and heart disease. [Read the rest of this entry...]