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Cooked wild rice, barley, brown rice or other whole grains make wonderful salads when combined with fruits, vegetables and seasonings. Here are four recipes to get you started. Experiment with your own combinations and favorite flavors; it’s hard to go wrong!

Wild Rice Fruit Salad
2 cups cooked wild rice
1/2 cup golden raisins
1/2 cup green pepper, chopped
1 cup seedless grapes
1 bunch green onions, sliced

1/4 cup chopped Italian parsley
2 T. lemon juice
1 t. curry powder
1/2 cup no-fat mayonnaise, or enough to moisten grains

Combine all ingredients and chill.

4 servings

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If your reading this you probably have been told you have elevated triglycerides and your doctor likely mentioned what high levels of blood fat can lead to. Triglycerides and cholesterol are the major sources of fat circulating in the blood and they are needed for energy. The major source of fuel that powers the heart muscle is triglycerides. It’s normal to have a certain amount of triglycerides in the blood but high levels may increase your risk of heart disease, stroke, and can cause inflammation of the pancreas which is known as pancreatitis, a painful and serious condition.

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If you have a high cholesterol reading for any length of time then there is an increased risk that you will get thickening of the artery walls. This can ultimately lead to other cardiovascular problems, in particular heart disease. Heart disease is a leading cause of death of people in many developed countries thus there is plenty of information on how to lower cholesterol. In general, it involves eating foods with less cholesterol and taking on regular exercise. There is another approach to reducing cholesterol that involves taking foods and supplements that can combat cholesterol. One such foodstuff that can help is niacin. This article will discus how niacin can be used to control cholesterol.

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First of all let’s agree on one thing, losing 5 pounds in a week is not the same as losing 10 pounds in 2 weeks. If you go on a diet that is designed to make you lose 5 pounds in week you will lose water and muscle mass, only a minor part of the 5 pounds is fat (and that is what you really want to get rid of, right?).

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The foods a person consumes plays a vital role in their overall health, both physically and mentally. A person who fills their daily diet with foods high in fats and sugars will definitely find they don’t feel as well as they once did. The problem of obesity is out of control in our society. It affects people of all ages and all backgrounds. While no one really enjoys being overweight there is a large portion of this population that refuse to take steps to change it. They simply decide to accept their physical appearance as it is. While this is an option each of us has, you simply can’t push the medical problems associated with a poor diet to the side. While a poor diet isn’t the only cause of chronic fatigue it can be a significant trigger.

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We have heard so many diet plans, start from calorie counting to calorie shifting. There are many names for different weight loss problems but whether they are effective or not is another question. Some people who called themselves as doctors or diet experts give us many programs and obviously they hope people will follow them.

Actually the simple definition of weight loss is to burn more calories than you eat. This is why people are suggesting us to eat only 20% fat (the other 40% is carbohydrate and 40% protein) in each of our meal. If we eat more fat than protein, it means we consume too much calories. In the end, we need to work harder to burn those unnecessary calories.

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Depression is a common disease that affects women twice as much as men. There are two kinds: unipolar and bipolar. The following symptoms are associated with depression: tendency to withdraw, and or hide from society, declining interest in pleasure and hobbies, feelings of worthlessness, chronically sad and depressed, angry and irritable, or display no emotion at all, thoughts of death, etc.
Most of these symptoms have two things in common: coldness and weakness via diet, menstruation (blood loss) and climate.

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