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Functional Ingredient Spotlight: Green Coffee Extract
Unroasted #coffee beans contain higher amounts of chlorogenic acid (CGA) — the #phytochemical in coffee that provides many of the health benefits — than roasted coffee.
Studies using CGA have found that it decreases fasting blood sugar, insulin levels, triglycerides, and LDL cholesterol as well as reducing body weight and decreasing body fat.
So let’s talk about green coffee extract, a popular #functionalingredient…
Protect Your Brain Now. Hypertension in your 30s means worse brain health later
If you’ve got high blood pressure as a young adult, don’t wait to get it under control. A new UC Davis study finds that individuals in their 30s with hypertension have worse brain health in their mid-70s.
Earlier Meals Mean Better Blood Sugar Control
Choose More Blue Foods for Improved Health
The blue foods include fish, crustaceans (crabs, shrimp, krill, prawns, lobster), octopus, squid, mollusks (clams, cockles, sea snails, mussels, scallops), aquatic plants like water spinach or watercress, seaweed, and other aquatic animals such as sea cucumbers, sharks, and eels. There are over 2500 different types of blue foods that contain important nutrients for optimum health.
Defeating Depression Through Diet
Mediterranean Diet for Better Mental Health
Functional Ingredient Spotlight: Turmeric
According to a market analysis report, #functionalingredients are expected to grow by 6.4% annually over the next seven years.
#Turmeric is one of the most popular functional ingredients, so let’s talk about it in more detail…
Ultra-processed Food and Mental Health
Vegetarian Stuffed Peppers
Summer Farro Salad
Healthy Gets a Reboot
Functional Ingredient Spotlight: Collagen
We choose what we eat for a variety of reasons: taste, convenience, cost, and #health concerns. Food manufacturers capitalize on consumers’ desire for healthy foods by adding ingredients that are marketed to help protect our #immune system, improve #mood, and increase #energy levels. One of the ways they do this is through #functionalingredients like #collagen…
Fat Math
Research Highlight: Highly-palatable food strikes again
High-fat Diet May Lead to Overeating
Food News: Shop with 3
Here are three easy goals to keep front and focus when you are grocery shopping.
3 Cancer Risk Reduction Strategies
The National Cancer Institute has revealed that some risk factors for cancer can be controlled. Choosing the right health behaviors and preventing exposure to certain environmental risk factors can help prevent cancer development. In other words, taking steps can reduce your risk of cancer is possible. Let’s look at some specific strategies.
Pleasure versus Hunger Eating
The research on cravings suggests that eating for pleasure versus hunger may drive us to crave highly palatable foods.
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