Healthy diet

Alessandra Ambrosio has become the new face of Moschino.

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We all know a healthy diet can help prevent cancer, but diet is just as vital for cancer patients going through treatment, CBS station WCBS-TV reports. Chef Dana Jacobi, author of the “12 Best Foods Cookbook,” explains in her book how superfoods – foods containing high concentrations of nutrients - build stamina during cancer treatment. Common superfoods include, blueberries, oats, beans …

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We all know a healthy diet can help prevent cancer, but it’s just as vital for cancer patients going through treatment. They know what it’s like to be sick with cancer, and keeping up a nutritious diet is a challenge. Neil Brody was diagnosed with neck cancer eight years ago. “They’ve taking out 57 lymph nodes. For the six months after the radiation and treatment I basically lost all my taste …

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As part of its Healthy for Life community education series, The Westerly Hospital will sponsor a free program called “Managing Your Diabetes” from 6 to 7:30 p.m. May 6 in the hospital’s Henry J. Nardone Conference Center.

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Nanny state ideas to further regulate the food industry promoted by visiting academic, Professor Philip James, offer nothing new to the obesity debate and don’t reflect the good work being done by New Zealand food companies to reformulate their products and promote healthy eating, says NZ Food and Grocery Council (FGC), Chief Executive, Katherine Rich.

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DR. MARK WATKINS SPECIAL TO THE BLADE This is one of a series of columns about health issues written by staff members of ProMedica and Mercy Health Partners. It can lead to blindness, kidney failure, and heart disease. It can also be delayed or, in many cases, completely avoided. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, more than 23 million Americans have diabetes. To better …

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BLOOD pressure moves that vital red stuff around our bodies and keeps us alive. Unfortunately one in five of us, or millions of people worldwide, have blood pressure that is persistently too high – that’s hypertension.

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We toss around the term “heart-healthy” a lot, but what does it really mean? We are looking at diet recommendations from the American Heart Association, whose mission has been to battle the No. 1 killer of Americans: heart disease. Here are seven simple steps to follow to keep heart disease at bay: •Get active: Strive for 30 minutes a day of physical activity.

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As a child, Iris Sherer never learned about proper nutrition. For her, family gatherings always meant overeating, and the food was never very healthy. A member of the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe, Sherer was taught to eat whatever was put in front of her.

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