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Your heart is an amazing machine, but how can you keep your heart in good working order? Learn how reducing the sodium, sugar, and saturated fat in your diet and making other nutritional changes can help protect your heart from disease.

Are you caught in the yoyo dieting trap? Have you successfully lost weight only to regain several months later? While reducing your weight may bring health benefits yoyo dieting may be anything but healthy.

“An apple a day keeps the doctor away” was coined in the 19th century when little was known about the health benefits associated with eating apples. Current research suggests eating apples may protect against some cancers, heart disease and more.

Diet after diet fails you. The perfect diet must be out there somewhere. How can you identify diet hogwash and prevent yourself from falling in to the yoyo diet and expanding waist line trap?

The Glycemic Index has been put forward as a means to control blood-glucose levels in people with diabetes. There may also be health benefits associated with consuming fewer high GI foods and more low GI foods for most people.