July 1, 2022
Category :Healthy Advocacy| Healthy Recipes
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Knowledge of what to eat is good practice for a healthy heart. However, practicing the knowledge of what to eat is tough, especially when it involves changing your eating habits. Cardiovascular diseases are a group of chronic diseases that affect the heart and blood vessels (especially the arteries), and can be acquired from our eating habits that started during our childhood days. Well, it is never too late—we have to take steps to start.
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June 22, 2022
Category :Diabetes Facts
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I remember peanut butter being my favorite palaman on ‘tasty bread’. I’d come home from school and a peanut butter-guava jelly sandwich would be waiting for me for merienda. Through the years, I’ve been cutting back on peanut butter (and telling dieters, too), knowing that it is high in fat and calories. But peanut butter is not totally bad. In fact, in recent years, it has been found to have many health benefits, even for diabetics like you! » Continue Reading
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cardiovascular risk, diabetes and heart disease, glucose levels, insulin sensitivity, inverse relationship, jelly sandwich, merienda, nut consumption, peanut butter, saturated fats, tasty bread, type 2 diabetes
April 1, 2020
Category :Health Watch| Healthy Advocacy
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Generally, the menu offered in Fast food chains contains excessive amount of calories, which if not properly burned will be stored as fat, which in the long run can cause weight gain and obesity. A typical burger and French fries has combined caloric content of 900 which is already half the amount of calorie intake a person needs in a day.
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burgers and fries, caloric content, fast food restaurants, saturated fats, soft drinks