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Get fit with comprehensive diet and nutrition information from eHow’s health experts. With information on the Atkins, cabbage soup and South Beach diets, along with healthy eating tips and dietary supplement pointers, eHow’s your personal nutritionist. Feeling altogether too toxic? eHow can show you how to purify your system by doing a Master Cleanse. Experiencing fatigue during the day? Find the most effective ways to add rejuvenating vitamins to your diet with eHow’s help.

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How to Choose Vitamins for Youth Athletes

By eHow Health Editor

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Youth athletes and parents often turn to vitamin supplements with the idea that they are necessary or advantageous. It helps to have the facts surrounding the hype on vitamin supplements... more »

How to clear up your complexion grandma's way.

By 3Amy Jaine

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Is it true. Are you what you eat. That's what grandma says when it comes to your skin. Is it your diet that is keeping you from a clear complexion... more »

How to Combat Stretch Marks and Saggy Skin with Weight Loss and Pregnancy.

By teaves

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There's a lot of hype and a lot of misconception when it comes to loose skin and stretch marks. There ARE ways to treat, combat, care for, and even cure these common problems without spending a fortune or going under the knife... more »

How to Compare Jenny Craig With NutriSystem

By eHow Health Editor

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Jenny Craig and NutriSystem both offer popular weight-loss systems with many of the same features. However, there are enough differences between the two programs for you to compare and make an informed decision when you decide to enlist some help ... more »

How to Compare South Beach Diet to Best Life Diet

By eHow Health Editor

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The South Beach Diet and Best Life Diet use a three phase model. South Beach is not your normal low-carb plan. Instead, it teaches you to pick the right carbs--healthy, high-fiber breads and pastas. The Best Life Diet is a lifetime eating plan. ... more »

How to Compare Weight Watchers With Ediets

By eHow Health Editor

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Losing weight is something most people find themselves wanting to do in their lives. So many different diet plans exist; finding one that works best with your lifestyle and budget can be challenging. Two popular weight loss plans are Weight ... more »

How to Compare Whey and Casein Proteins

By eHow Health Editor

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Whey and casein are two different kinds of protein that are made into protein supplements. Each has different qualities that benefit your body in different ways. Whether you're getting into hardcore bodybuilding or you just want a supplement to ... more »

How to cook ' Pad Thai Shrimp '

By PORAMA

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A little bit about Thai Food before we start ,… I learned how to cook from my mom and my aunt, while I was child. How to make Simple “ Thai Food” with, ‘Secrets of the Chef’ recipes. As you probably know, there are as many ‘Thai” recipes as ... more »

How to Cook a Healthy Quick Breakfast for Children

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Bethenny Frankel teaches you how to make a quick and easy healthy breakfast that your kids will love. Bethenny knows it's hard to gets kids to eat healthy so she makes it easy by showing you how to prepare whole grain dark chocolate chip muffins ... more »

How to Cook for a Capricorn

By Patricia Resnick

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Each zodiac sign rules certain parts of the body. Capricorn rules the bones, joints, knees and teeth. Capricorns will be healthiest if they eat a balanced diet of fresh, seasonal food with an emphasis on the particular foods that strengthen the ... more »

How to Cook for a Gemini

By Patricia Resnick

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Each zodiac sign rules certain parts of the body. Gemini rules the shoulders, arms, hands, lungs, nerves and nervous system. Gemini will be healthiest if they eat a balanced diet of fresh, seasonal food, with an emphasis on the particular foods ... more »

How to Cook With Brewer's Yeast

By eHow Health Editor

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It's amazing to think there could be anything nutritious about a fungus that grows on molasses and floats in the air around us. But brewer's yeast, and its better tasting cousin, nutritional yeast, are great sources of B vitamins and can help ... more »

How to Create a Customized Jenny Craig Program

By eHow Health Editor

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Getting a diet plan to fit your life seems impossible sometimes. Jenny Craig has solved that problem with their customized options tailored for you. With the Jenny Craig program, you can customize menus, activities and weight loss goals so they ... more »

How to Create a Low-Carb Sweet Tooth

By Audie Metcalf

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You're now eating 12 pounds of steak per day, 14 sticks of butter a week, and 47 boxes of bacon an hour, but man do you look skinny! But oh, cheesecake. Ah, ice cream. You miss them so... Your thick, creamy rich desserts are now a thing of the ... more »

How to Create a Meal Plan to Lose Weight

By Laura Chapman

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You've decided you want to lose weight and get healthy. But it seems like you're always running out of time and grabbing something on the go, something like a big, greasy hamburger. A little meal planning can help you avoid these diet pitfalls... more »

How to Create a Mediterranean Diet Menu Plan

By eHow Health Editor

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A Mediterranean diet is an overall recommendation for how you should eat, rather than a specific, regimented weight loss plan. When you embrace this diet, you will learn a way of eating that people throughout the Mediterranean regions have been ... more »

How to Cut Back on Carbs

By eHow Health Editor

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Cutting carbs in your diet can help you lose weight, feel healthier and avoid over-eating. However, your body needs energy and you don't usually need to avoid them completely. Most people would do well to cut back on carbs in their food consumption... more »

How to Cut Back on Sugar

By AlinaBradford

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Who doesn't love sugar? I know I do, but it is important to control how much sugar you eat. Your waistline and health will thank you!.. more »

How to Cut Calories not Flavor

By meemee67

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You can still enjoy your favorite foods and recipes and still cut calories. These few tricks and tips can help you cut out fats while still enjoying the flavor... more »

How to Cut Out Refined Sugar from Your Child's Diet

By Ophelia-Rising

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It’s amazing how refined sugar and chemical sweeteners are so often added to our everyday foods. Foods that you wouldn’t even suspect having added sweeteners are big culprits. With the ever-growing diagnosis of Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) ... more »

How to Deal with Strange Food Cravings in Pregnancy (Pica)

By DebbieBarr

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We’ve all heard stories about pregnant women craving pickles and ice cream or sending their husbands to the late night drive through for a bacon double cheese burger. No harm in that, right? But what if you’re pregnant and craving something that ... more »

How to decrease Bad Cholesterol (LDL)

By BASHARAT SHAH, MD

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Coronary Artery Disease (CAD)is one of the major killers worldwide. An association between blood cholesterol levels and Heart Attack has been established. The first cholesterol lowering medication that was known to decrease the incidence of Heart ... more »

How to Describe Glyconutrients

By Nikki Walters

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Within the past 15 to 20 years, the medical field has been exploring an exciting new discovery. This discovery has the potential to greatly reduce the amount of disease plaguing our society. With the discovery of glyconutrients, the 21st century ... more »

How to Detox Your Body With a Cleansing Diet

By eHow Health Editor

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While most people associate the word "detox" with alcohol or drug abuse, many people regularly perform these cleanses to eliminate toxins that have entered the body through air pollution, impurities and chemicals in our foods, or after an ... more »

How to Diagnose a Vitamin B Deficiency

By eHow Health Editor

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Fad diets and fast food can take a toll on nutrition. Our bodies need well balanced diets full of vitamins to ward off a variety of serious health problems. If you're not getting enough vitamin B in your diet your central nervous system, heart, ... more »