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Articles about african american diets (0-31 of 31)
- Living With High Blood Pressure: Simple Changes That Will Change Your Life
By: Jack Landry | - The term high blood pressure is heard across America as statistics show that one in three adults have high blood pressure.
However, only 77.6% of those who have it are aware that they have the condition which is also known as hypertension.
Blood pressure in the amount of pressure that circulating blood exerts on blood vessels as it travels around your body.
This pressure is an important vital sign and helps tell how well your heart is doing.
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- Ways You Can Prevent Prostrate Cancer
By: Anant Ratanakovit | - Prostate cancer prevention holds exciting possibilities for the future and suggests some prostate cancer prevention strategies for men to use now. When deciding on what prevention strategies to adopt, keep in mind that several of the strongest known risk factors for prostate cancer are wildcards. They are simply beyond your control. These include genetics. The risk of prostate cancer is higher if other men (father or brothers) in your family have had the disease.
Prostate cancer ...
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- Boost Brain Power With These Brain
By: Jillian McMullen | - When it comes to food, you have a wealth of delicious choices. And each one not only tastes good but also supplies unique health benefits. From blueberries to dark chocolate, leading nutritionists and physicians are pointing to certain foods that enhance brain power and, they say, a heart-healthy lifestyle.
Although there"s no conclusive research about the healthful brain benefits of particular supplements, food sources rich in vitamin E and Omega 3 fatty acids may provide ben ...
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- Prostate Cancer: Symptoms, Risk Factors And Treatments
By: Joseph Mix | - Prostate cancer means that cancer cells form in the tissues of the prostate, the walnut-sized gland that surrounds the urethra in men. It is the most common cancer in American men after skin cancer. Prostate cancer tends to grow slowly compared with most other cancers and may require 10, 20, or 30 years before the tumor gets big enough to cause symptoms. Eventually, cancer cells may metastasize (spread) throughout the body.
By the time symptoms appear, the cancer may be more ad ...
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- Do You Need African American Diet Instructions?
By: Shalisha Alston | - It is no secret that African Americans suffer to a greater degree from weight-related illnesses than other groups. That's why as a community we need African American diet instructions.
We Need What?
I can just hear the black women now saying, "What exactly would African American diet instructions look like?" Well, before I get into that, let's examine the types of African American foods that we eat on a regular basis that make us fat.
Grits Eggs and ...
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- Top 5 Alabama Diet Solutions For Mega Weight Loss
By: Shalisha Alston | - When it comes to obese countries, the United States reigns supreme. In the United States, 70% of Americans are overweight. A heavy percentage of overweight and/or obesity lies in the southern states.
As of 2003, 24.5% of adult Alabama residents are obese. Alabama is also one of the top 7 states in the nation leading in obesity. In addition, 38% of the rest of Alabama residents are overweight. Alabama diet solutions are in dire need.
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- The Five Causes Of Obesity In The African American Diet
By: Shalisha Alston | - I do not know about you, but when I was growing up, my mom cooked fried chicken (no, not oven "fried" chicken, we are talking about southern deep fried chicken), macaroni and cheese topped with tons of butter and mounds of cheese, collard greens cooked in chicken fat, hot buttered biscuits and brown gravy for dinner - at least twice a week.
Yes, I know you are salivating right about now. Here is another past time favorite to which I am sure you can relate - deep fried catfish, re ...
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- How Do I Avoid Pancreatic Cancer?
By: Arkaitz Arteaga | - Cancer is a condition which most people dread. There are certain types of cancer which respond very well to modern chemotherapy and have excellent chances of recovery. Unfortunately, pancreatic cancer is not one of those cancers which is amenable to treatment. In most cases, the diagnosis of pancreatic cancer comes very late, when the disease has already progressed and involved the surrounding organs. This makes prevention a very important part of keeping oneself healthy. This article discuses t ...
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- Gourmet Salts And How To Use Them In Your Creative Cooking
By: Carole-Anne Stanway | - Perfection on earth with the creation and taste of gourmet salt on your fabulous recipes. It is my intention to advise you about these gourmet sea salts and just what they can do for your cooking. Many of these gourmet salts are produced by a company called "Saltworks". The differences will be pointed out to sort one from the other, so that you will know when cooking just what to choose. But first, a little information on salt.
Sea salt is obtained by evaporating sea water. Co ...
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- Weight Loss Surgery In Mississippi
By: Craig B. Thompson | - Mississippi is in deep trouble. According to data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, the Magnolia State is in the grip of an epidemic: the epidemic of obesity. Across our state, the number of overweight and obese individuals is rapidly increasing. In fact, almost 66% of the population of Mississippi is overweight or obese, making Mississippi the nations least healthy state. Diabetes, stroke, and heart disease are endemic in Mississippis population, especially within ethni ...
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- Take Care Of That Skin On Your Head: Scalp
By: Esteri | - The information concerning the care of your skin you are likely to spot a lot is that of acne.
In this article though, I would like to explore what goes on underneath your hair or in other words your scalp.
Just like acne causes lots of pain and discomfort to your face, upper chest, arms and back skin, so are the problems that may affect your scalp.
Some have very sensitive scalps while others do not and this is what brings all the difference if thes ...
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- Understanding The Early Symptoms Of Diabetes
By: The Alternate Medic | - Diabetes is a disease that can be traced in the genes of certain families. If you have a family history of diabetes in your family, then you need to be careful and extra vigilant in recognizing the early symptoms of diabetes. Being able to catch the early symptoms of diabetes can decide whether your diabetes is severe or manageable with just medications and a strict diet.
It is now widely understood that some races are more prone to diabetes compared to others. This affects those ...
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- Complete Information On Copper Deficiency
By: Juliet | - Copper is essential in the proper development of the central nervous system, correct bone growth, and hair pigmentation. Copper-deficient goats have difficulty conceiving kids and, if bred, abortions are not uncommon. Copper deficiency can be the result of low levels of the mineral in the soil and in forages raised on the soil; this is primary copper deficiency. Copper deficiency can cause a syndrome of anemia or pancytopenia and a neurodegeneration in humans or other mammals. Cases of human ane ...
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- Why Eat Apricot Kernels
By: Joni Bell | - Apricot kernels are, like most nuts and seeds, very nutritious. Among the nutrients they contain is one called amygdalin, which is also known as vitamin B17. This attacks cancer cells, and thus can help prevent cancer from breaking out in our bodies.
Amygdalin (vitamin B17) is contained in many hundreds of foods, but ones that are particularly rich in amygdalin have disappeared to a large extent from our Western diet. Peoples throughout the world who still eat a traditional diet, ...
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- Hoodia: The Weight Loss Plant
By: M. Shabir | - Scientific Researches on Hoodia:
CSIR - Council for Scientific and Industrial Research of South Africa isolated the ingredient in Hoodia in 1977, which is now known as P57, responsible for this appetite-suppressant effect and patented it. The CSIR then granted United Kingdom-based Phytopharm a license, and they collaborated with the pharmaceutical company Pfizer to isolate active ingredients from the extracts and look into synthesizing them for use as an appetite suppressant.
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- Herbal Hair Loss Solutions
By: Lachlan Walker | - Nettles are rich in vitamins A and C, several key minerals and lipids that can be beneficial to the hair. Nettle Root Extract has been used successfully in Europe as an inhibitor of 5-alpha reductase in treating BPH. As mentioned earlier, 5-alpha reductase is a key component in turning testosterone into DHT, the substance that causes the atrophy of hair follicles. Therefore there is great promise in its use as a component in natural hair loss treatments. Nettle Root Extract is available at healt ...
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- Diabetes Prevention And Treatment
By: Peter Hutch | - Diabetes is a serious disease, affecting millions of Americans and growing at epidemic rates, with one million new cases each year. But, there is good news: Diabetes can be prevented. By losing a modest amount of weight by getting 30 minutes of physical activity 5 days a week and eating healthier, people with pre-diabetes can delay or prevent the onset of the disease. The "Small Steps. Big Rewards. Prevent type 2 Diabetes." campaign, the first-ever national diabetes prevention campaign, spreads ...
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- What Are The Risks Of Getting Prostate Cancer And What Can You Do To Lower The Risk
By: Don Saunders | - For many years now there has been a great deal of argument about prostate cancer and the subject of preventing prostate cancer in particular is still to some extent controversial. Although, as is the case with many cancers, men are not themselves the cause of their own prostate cancer, there are clearly many risk factors for developing the disease and there is a lot that can be done, if not to prevent it, then unquestionably to lessen the risk of developing it.
The first step in p ...
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- Tips On Preventing Hypertension In Women
By: Mike Jennings | - In women 45 years of age or older, sixty percent of Caucasian women and seventy-nine percent of African-American women have hypertension. It is estimated that thirty percent of elderly women over 65 years are diagnosed with isolated systolic hypertension. Therefore, as you age your risk of developing high blood pressure increases drastically. Although the risk factors are similar between men and women, gender differences have not been documented conclusively by research studies.
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- A Chef's Guide To Vegans
By: Josh Stone | - A "vegan" and a "vegetarian" are two different things. That's one thing you have to get straight. While most vegetarians simply refrain from eating anything that had a heartbeat, but still allow eggs and dairy products, vegans go one further and exclude anything related to animals in any way, shape or form. This means that even though chickens are perfectly happy to lay eggs and bees are glad to make honey, most vegans won't touch either, based upon the concept that to do so would be to exploit ...
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- Who Is At Greater Risk For Type 1 Diabetes?
By: Tom Norman | - Some folk are at higher danger than others of developing diabetes. Any individual with a household story of diabetes has increased danger. Diabetes too occurs more often in Native Americans, Hispanic Americans, and African Americans.
Because it tends to run in families, the major risk factor for type 1 diabetes appears to be genetics. The risk of developing type 2 diabetes increase progressively as body fat increases, especially around the midsection. Compared to a normal-weight p ...
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- Excess Sodium And Hypertension
By: Paul Kanute | - Hypertension is persistent high blood pressure. It affects nearly one quarter of American adults and more than half of people over 65. Most cases are essential hypertension, in which the cause is unknown.
Left untreated, the excessive pressure of blood on the arteries eventually scars and narrows them, reducing their elasticity. This is increase the likelihood of atherosclerosis, because fatty plaque accumulates where arteries are damaged. The heart force to work much harder pumpi ...
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- What You Need To Know About The Prostate And Its Diseases
By: Bruce Brightman | - I had heard of prostate diseases for years but never thought much about it till a friend developed prostate problems.
His situation was enough to get me curious about prostate diseases.
First I learned that the prostate is a doughnut-shaped cluster of glands at the bottom of the bladder between the rectum and the base of the penis. It produces most of the fluid in semen.
I then learned that there are three main diseases of the prostrate: cancer, pro ...
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- Early Diagnosis Reduces Death Rate For Prostate Cancer
By: Riley Hendersen | - The most common type of cancer diagnosed in men is prostate cancer. The prostate is walnut-sized gland found only in men. According to the American Cancer Society, about 218,890 new cases are expected to be diagnosed in 2007 and about 27,050 men will die of prostate cancer. But the death rate is decreasing, perhaps in part because of early diagnosis.
In the early stages a patient may not exhibit any symptoms. However, after it is advanced, the patient may experience:
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- High Blood Pressure Symptom - Still Waters Run Deep
By: Stan Kitchen | - High blood pressure comes without any obvious warning signs. The inability to recognize something is wrong means you are at risk to fatal health conditions. Strokes, heart attacks and damage to other organs can result from having high blood pressure levels. And many Americans who think they are healthy fall victim to this disease because they do not bother to check their blood pressure. But there are ways to know if you have the symptoms of high blood pressure.
Seeing the Invisibl ...
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- Prostate Cancer Risk Factors
By: Verlyn Ross | - The exact cause of this disease has not yet been discovered. No one can explain why one man develops prostate problems along with cancer and the other man does not. Cancer cannot be caught from another person. It is not contagious. However, there are some risk factors that make it more likely for some men to develop this disease.
Age is the number one cause of prostate cancer. It is rare to find a man under the age of 40 to have the disease. The chances of that happening are ...
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- What Is The Beef About Protein?
By: Valerie Slaugther | - A recent study from the Johns Hopkins University and elsewhere discovered that if protein or monounsaturated fat are replaced in your diet for some carbohydrates, it could reduce blood pressure and cholesterol levels substantially. This reduction in blood pressure and cholesterol would result in a significant reduction in overall risk of heart disease.
Imagine, just by changing about 10 percent of carbohydrate calories in the diet to either protein-rich food, mostly from plant so ...
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- Take Hoodia Diet Pills With A Smart Diet, Not A Starvation Diet
By: A.Aitaken | - Could Hoodia weight loss supplements fulfill the expectations of dieters and impact the United States obesity troubles? Today fifty million Americans are attempting to slim down with just a low five percent sustaining the weight loss they are seeking. Can Hoodia, the new comer on the scene, assist you to be in that small percentage that gets there, one of the few that will be able to lose the pounds and not have it them come back? From initial reports it may have a chance if these Hoodia pills a ...
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- What Every Man Needs To Know To Stay Healthy
By: Freelance Writer | - In todays fast-pace world, who has time to worry about health? There is just too much to do. With the demanding responsibilities of school and work, it becomes stressful just to squeeze in time to relax. Tight schedule tactics are key. As every shrewd planner knows, the maintenance of personal health is essential. Health problems will most often monopolize the calendar. Proactive actions take up less time in the long run. It is never too early or late to start taking care of your health. Ther ...
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- What You Must Know About Diabetes
By: Scott Michaels | - Diabetes Mellitus is a disease in which the pancreas produces little or no insulin, a hormone that helps the bodys tissues absorb glucose (sugar) so it can be used as a source of energy. The condition may also develop if muscle, fat, and liver cells respond poorly to insulin. In people with diabetes, glucose levels build up in the blood and urine, causing excessive urination, thirst, hunger, and problems with fat and protein metabolism. Diabetes mellitus differs from the less common diabetes ...
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