Monthly Archives: January 2015

Guide To Taking Creatine Monohydrate

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The Nutritional Content of The Shrimp

Shrimps or prawns are crustaceans that belonging to the arthropod group of animals, in a subgroup that includes barnacles, crabs, krill, lobsters and crayfish. Prawns have a tough outer shell (like all crustaceans), covering a semi-translucent flesh that can be … Continue reading

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Vitamin D In Human Milk

Traditionally vitamin D has been viewed as an essential nutrient necessary only for correct calcium metabolism. This is reflected in the classic vitamin D deficiency diseases of the bones including osteomalacia and rickets in adults and children, respectively. However, more … Continue reading

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Water Hardness: Does It Affect Trace Mineral Status?

If drinking water percolates through areas containing dolomite, limestone or chalk, the calcium and magnesium within the rocks can increase the mineral content of the water considerably. Water with a high calcium and magnesium content is described as hard water, … Continue reading

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Vitamin C Interactions With Vitamin B6

Vitamin C is perhaps the most well known vitamin amongst the general population and vitamin C supplements are widely available, cheap and popular. Evidence from the nutritional literature that vitamin C in gram amounts is beneficial at preventing infection and … Continue reading

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Weight Training: Are you Eating Enough Food?

Weight training is a great way to improve body composition. However, weight training is very expensive metabolically, which means that energy requirements can increase considerably. This is good news for those that want to lose body weight because the increase … Continue reading

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Food Form and The Glycaemic Index

Increasingly fibre is being seen as essential to human health. This is because the fibre contained within plant foods may be required for the correct digestion and absorption of the starch also within the plant material. In particular, the fibre … Continue reading

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Microorganisms Of The Rumen

It is only recently that the importance of the microbiota in the human gut has being fully appreciated as pivotal to human health. This is surprising, because the colonisation of the guts of ruminant livestock is known to provide essential … Continue reading

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The Neuroprotective Effects of Tea

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Big Mike Says Go Bananas

Bananas cultivation may have originated in Malaysia over 4000 years ago, but has since spread to Africa, the Middle East and America through colonisation. Bananas are worthy of nutritional consideration because so many are produced and consumed Worldwide. In fact … Continue reading

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