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Drink red wine to cut off the risk of heart diseases and keep your heart healthy

September 10, 2009

Red wine is good for your heart

After realizing my first food chart, I’ve decided to write something more about the most important foods of the Mediterranean diet and their effects on health.

Wine is one of the main foods of the Mediterranean diet. Everybody know its effects and benefits on health.

Today I’ve read an interesting news about the healthy effects of red wine reducing heart diseases.

After a little explanation of why red wine helps your heart, you can read a list of resources about preventing heart diseases with examples of recipes, meals and links to find out more info.

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[Video] How to cook pasta – Tricks and Instructions to cooking it perfectly

September 5, 2009

Directions

When the water is rolling boil, add salt.
Add all the pasta to the boiling water at once
Cover the pot to make it boiling as soon as possible.
Stir it often with a wooden spoon to prevent sticking.
One minute or so before the stated time (see the pasta package), check the pasta to see how chewy it is.
When the pasta is ready drain it immediately without rinsing.

Tips and Tricks

Proportions: 1 quart of water for 3 ounces of pasta and about 1 teaspoon of salt per every quart of water
Use a big pot
Add salt when the water is rolling boil
Keep the pasta completely submerged in boiling water

Doing so you can be sure to stay on weight and keep its nutrient intact.

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Cancer prevention and health benefits of eating an apple a day

September 1, 2009

An apple a day keeps the doctor away

Now we know that it’s true. A recent study confirms the health benefit of Apples.

A diet rich in fruits and veg has a preventive role in avoiding the risks of cancer and diseases.

[Translated] The study conduced by the Italian Cancer League [Translated] says that eating 1 apple a day helps in reducing the risk of Cancer and heart diseases.

The results are clear. The cancer cells development is reduced by

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[Video] Diet and foods that naturally lower blood pressure

August 28, 2009

In this video dr. Robert Kowalski shares his tips on how to lower blood pressure with food.
He explains how to lower blood pressure with the Mediterranean diet.
The Mediterranean diet is so famous thanks to the studies conduced by Dr. Ancel keys (The father of the Med diet concept) about the lower heart disease rates of [...]

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A healthy snack idea: The Mediterranean cracker with cheese and tomatoes

August 10, 2009

Here a single idea to choose a snack that mix all the Mediterranean in a cracker…
It’s a product of the Barilla Group that I buy in Italy.

Ingredients:

Wheat flour
Tomato (20%)
Not hydrogenated vegetable fats
Extra virgin olive oil (2,8%)
Salt
Cheese grain (Parmesan) (1,65%)
Barley flour
Oregano (0,5%)
Natural yeast
Eggs

Nutrition information for 1 serving (1 ounce)

135 Kcal
Protein 2.8
Carbohydrates 21.2
Fat 4.3

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Recipe – Italian Spaghetti with Eggplants and Tomato

August 5, 2009

Ingredients for 4 people:
- 3 Eggplants
- 1 Piece of Garlic
- Pepper
- Salt
- Olive Oil
- Tomato sauce
- Pasta (spaghetti) 400 gr.
Process:

Step 1: Cut the eggplants into slices and put them in salted water for 30 minutes
Step 2: Fry the eggplants with olive oil
Step 3: Prepare the tomato sauce

Put in a pan the tomato sauce with a [...]

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Interview of Nicki Heverling, the mind under Mediterranean Mark. A guide to help you choose healthy traditional foods, drinks and products.

February 11, 2008

Nicki Heverling is the program manager of the Mediterranean Mark, a new educational program to guide consumers to healthy traditional Mediterranean food, drinks and products.
1.Please Nicki tell us a bit about yourself and Oldways. Why do you promote healthy eating?
Oldways is the widely respected non-profit “food issues think tank” credited with successfully translating the complex [...]

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9+10 Eating tips to follow for an healthy living and weight maintenance

February 9, 2008

9 Things to do while on a diet

Do not start doing the “Fad” diet of the moment – The risk is to not having the desired effects. Choose a fairly healthy diet and suitable to your food habits.
Do not believe to miracles – Don’t expect that your food change will transform your body in a [...]

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Foods have 50% less nutritious in respect to the past…5 tips to improve our health

February 2, 2008

Nutrition and agro-food technologies experts denounce a reduction by more than 50% of the nutritional properties of foods so called “friends of health” caused by:

Loss of seasonality
Pollution
Agricultural policies of some countries

Have been accused especially fruit and vegetables and other “ingredients” of the Mediterranean diet. They are no longer those of the past.
The reasons?

The procedures [...]

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And the real cause of coronaric heart diseases is…sugar!

January 26, 2008

Thanks to Cranrob
Last day I was reading some articles on Sicilian red oranges and I’ve found a very useful article about the effects of sugars consumption and the risk of coronary heart diseases.
The study was conduced by Dr. Linus Pauling, a famous Nobel prize winner, that says:
The coronary disease, including angina pectoris seem to be [...]

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