Healthy Salads

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Healthy Salads

Salads can be an effective tool for weight loss. A salad with greens, vegetables, fruits and nuts is perfect before a meal, or a salad can be the meal if you make it big with lots of healthy vegetables.

Want to know how to make a salad that is high in nutrition an fiber, without a lot of calories? Here is how to create a healthy salad.

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Debunking the biggest health myths of 2008

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“Calories eaten late at night are more likely to be stored as fat.”

“Sugar causes hyperactivity in kids.”

“You lose most body heat through your head.”

These are just some of the myths debunked by Rachel C Vreemanand Aaron E Carroll in this article in this week’s British Medical Journal. (Myth-debunking has become an annual tradition for Vreeman and Carroll, who published a similar list last December.)

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