Do you ever come home from grocery shopping and think, "What did I get for all that money?" Here are 5 ways to shop healthy so that you obtain greater value out of the products you buy for your health and home.

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1.  Maintain a diet close to nature - Natural foods are considered to be minimally processed and do not contain artificial ingredients.  They are not "enriched" with isolated vitamins and minerals.  Natural foods do not include ingredients such as refined sugars, high fructose corn syrup, refined flours, hydrogenated oils, artificial sweeteners, artificial ......

By Cliff Smith

Soy has been a staple of vegetarian and Asian diets for generations, but is soy bad for you or good for you?  In the USA, there are hundreds of soy based products, which has led to increased scrutiny.  It is not uncommon to find soy on lists of “Best Foods To Eat” and “Worst Foods To Eat”.  In the video shown here, Dr. Reuben K Chen, MD answers the question, “Is soy good for you or bad?”

First, it is critical to understand the differences between SOY ISOLATES and soy in its WHOLE FOOD form.  Almost all experts agree that soy is much better for the human body when consumed in whole food form rather than as isolated protein (like in most protein drinks).

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By Cliff Smith

Even if weight loss is not one of your goals, weight control is something just about everyone pays attention to.

Here are 3 tips that provide the kind of lifelong weight control success people dream about.
   
1. Practice habitual eating.  

• In other words, eat the same thing for breakfast or lunch every day.  Research shows that if you repeat meals, (by eating the same healthy breakfast or lunch every day) you will consume less food overall.  This is thanks to an appetite-suppressing effect that comes naturally from restricting food choices. In a recent study, researchers fed volunteers the same dish every day for 5 days. By the fifth day, volunteers ate much less. In fact, on average they ......
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