Nutrition Facts

(HealthCastle.com) Do you need a jolt of coffee in the morning before you can function? The average American coffee drinker consumes close to 3.5 cups a day. With this much java flowing through our veins, it is interesting to note some emerging research that sheds a positive light on the health benefits of drinking coffee.

5 Reasons Why Coffee Can Be Good For You

1. Reduce Risk of Type 2 Diabetes

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(HealthCastle.com) Hot flashes seem to be a personal experience. Many women we talked to tried various diet remedies and supplements but results are often inconsistent. Let's look at some common diet solutions for hot flashes and their scientific evidence.

A Diet to Manage Hot Flash

Avoid the following food items in your diet. Most women found these foods make hot flashes worse.

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(HealthCastle.com) February is National Snack Foods Month, a time when snack food manufacturers go into high gear to up sales and get packaged snacks into shoppers' grocery carts and homes.

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(HealthCastle.com) Just about every super food claims to help lower cholesterol. So which one actually lives up to its claim? Our Heart Smart Nutrition section is one of the more popular sections on HealthCastle.com.  Whether you are a regular reader or not, can you spot the 10 foods in this poster?

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(HealthCastle.com) Despite the flurry of media reports, the U.S. Congress did not declare pizza to be a vegetable. What actually happened is that school lunch regulations now count 2 tablespoons of tomato sauce or puree (as would be found on pizza) as a vegetable serving, while the serving size for all other vegetables is a half-cup. Critics claim that this gives the food manufacturers an easy way out in meeting the required number of fruit/vegetable servings in school lunches.

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