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I am a professional writer in the fields of health, wellness, and psychology. I hold a BS in technical communication and nutrition and am currently working on my MS in professional counseling.
My previous clients include CVS Health, Arizona Farm Bureau, Pure Essence Labs, and Oxford Vitality.
It seems to me that everyone's favorite macronutrient is protein. Everywhere you go you hear people talking about how much protein their diet contains, and high protein diets are thought of as good diets (especially by men). Protein is an essential element to our diets.
Food
If you're anything like me, you love to create and then eat all manner of baked goods. Who doesn't love warm banana bread just out of the oven and smothered in rich, melty butter? Or fresh peach pie with a homemade, hand-rolled crust?
"Time for bed, please brush your teeth," her mother will call from our bedroom down the hall. A brief hesitation and then, "It's only 8:48. Yesterday you didn't ask me to brush my teeth until 8:55, so I still have...." Another momentary hesitation where, in my mind, I can see her using her fingers to count.
Health
Have you ever thought: I just don't have the strength to handle this today? Or maybe not just today, last week...month... the last year? Fight back with Nutrition!
If you are a person who is concerned with health and eating a disease-preventative diet, you have probably heard the terms 'free radical' and 'antioxidant.' Maybe you've even heard the term 'flavonoid.' And, like most, you are probably familiar with the connotations of each of these terms, but you may not be completely familiar with their definitions.
Insulin resistance, an excessive intake of sugar and refined carbohydrates, even eating a large amount of saturated fat... these are precursors for diabetes. But did you know that there is another issue out there? One with which some sources claim 35% of the adult population in the United States is afflicted?
Thirty-three percent of adults over the age of twenty have hypertension2 . In 2010, the death certificates of 1 in 9 individuals in the United States mentioned heart failure; 8.3% of the adult population had diabetes 2.
Personally, I do not understand how people can skip breakfast; I'm starving if I don't eat by 8! But I know that a huge portion of the population does skip the first meal of the day. For some, a cup of coffee is all they have for breakfast, and as a nation, we wonder why we feel fatigued!
We all know that we should eat more fiber because it aids in digestion. But you may not have known the other important functions of dietary fiber... and they are much more influential than just helping you go. A high fiber diet promotes healthy gut bacteria, too!
Fitness
With an ever-aging population, more and more time is being spent studying diseases like Alzheimer's and dementia. We know that an unhealthy diet can worsen, or even encourage the formation of these neurological problems. For example, a high carbohydrate diet has been linked as a possible causation of memory impairment and loss 1, while a diet high in unsaturated fats, specifically from fish, can aid in the preservation of brain function 1.