Discovering different flavors and textures would be a good idea and this would certainly open a new window to nutrition. It is like adding new colors to the health. To improve the health and to protect the bodies from chronic disease bright colored fruits and vegetables provide a wide range of vitamins, minerals and phyto-nutrients. Eight to ten servings of fruits and vegetables a day is the recommendation of newly revised ‘Dietary Guidelines for Americans’. This type of diet is discouraging but it becomes practicable when it is divided according to some meal guidelines. Example is given below:

• Serve the breakfast with one fruit or 4-6 ounce of juice or ½ cup of frozen fruit or ¼ cups of dried fruit.
• Serve the lunch with 2 cups of salad.
• Serve the snacks with one fruit or vegetable.
• Serve the dinner with 2 cups of cooked vegetable or 1 cup salad and 1 cup cooked vegetable.
• Serve the snacks with 1 fruit or vegetable.

Have Pleasure with Taste Buds

One of the greatest pleasures in life is food. In standard diets favorite foods are banned. The defeat of diet is due to the deficiency that leads to intense desire and cheating. To stay healthy and have a balanced diet it is sensible to take in a sensible amount of the favorite food. Food should be eaten tastily and enjoyably. Blindly following a diet pattern designed without studying an individual’s health status could be even more harmful. So better be sensible in selection and take good advice from an expert.

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Scientists have been successful in producing technologically modified calcium rich carrots that help in significant enhancement of the rate of calcium absorption in the human body.

A recent study conducted at the ‘Texas A&M AgriLife’s Vegetable and Fruit Improvement Center ‘on the calcium consumption of people who ate the carrot revealed that there was a significant increase in the net calcium absorption rate.

The research study that was conducted in collaboration with the ‘Taylor College of Medicine’ also revealed that if this specially developed carrot is added to a normal person’s diet it helps in preventing related diseases like osteoporosis.

“If you eat a serving of the modified carrot, you’d absorb 41 percent more calcium than from a regular carrot,” said Dr. Jay Morris, the lead researchers at the ‘Baylor College of Medicine in Houston’. Findings of this research study have also been published in the “Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences”, in its online edition of January 14.

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According to a study that was recently conducted involving middle aged and older aged citizens of Norfolk in the United Kingdom, the average lifespan can be increased by as many as ten years by abstaining from smoking, being active, eating vegetables and fruits and moderating alcohol intake, when compared to individuals who do not do any of these things.

This study was published in an online open access journal called the Public Library of Science Medicine, regularly referred to as PLoS Medicine. The purpose of the study was to show the public and professionals in the health industry that healthy behaviors have a clear cut impact on longevity. This is because a lot of information currently available is contradictory or confusing in nature. Nobody is exactly sure what makes a healthy diet, or how much is enough exercise, or how much alcohol is harmful. While there is plenty of research on each of these individual activities, there is very little information pertaining to the combined effects of these actions.

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