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Diet & Nutrition & African Americans
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Diet & Nutrition - Healthy eating is the cornerstone of good health for African Americans
  Fruit and Vegetable Chart
  Soul Food Pyramid
  Soul Food Pyramid for Kids
   Beyonce And The Master Cleanse Diet
   Diet Plans - The Real Deal (part 1)
   Diet Plans - The Real Deal (part 2)
   Online Meal Planning Demo
   The Color Guide
   Water Is Essential: Here’s Why
   Weight Loss Nutrition Myths
   What Is A Serving?
   Why Fruits & Vegatables
The High Cholesterol Diet
(BlackDoctor.org) -- A vegetarian diet can be heart-healthy and nutritious. It can also be a great way to lower your risk for obesity, high blood pressure, heart disease, and diabetes. The American Heart Association recommends a diet that is low in saturated fats and trans fats -- the types of fat that can raise blood cholesterol. Since cholesterol and saturated fats come primarily from animal foods, one way to adjust your diet for high cholesterol is to start a vegetarian diet.

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 Personal Meal Planning Tool

Our Customized Meal Planning Tool works with you like your own private nutritionist or dietitian to help you create completely balanced diets using your favorite foods. We teach you how to eat right as you lose fat and quickly improve your health. You DO NOT need extensive Internet skills. This video demo shows how simple it is to use. You can make each day unique, or eat the same thing. It's a life changing experience!

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The Healthy Lunch Box

(BlackDoctor.org) -- When it’s time to send your children back to school -- or decide on what to pack for your own lunch -- one of the single-most important things you can do is prepare nutritious meals. Not only does a healthy lunch keep you and your children from being groggy and loaded down at school, it helps them establish healthy eating habits for life and have enough energy to succeed each and every day.

The suggestions for school lunches below take into account the age of the child -- small

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Toast To Health: How Red Wine Helps Your Heart
(BlackDoctor.org) – You’ve probably heard the well known notion that red wine, in moderation, is good for your health. Is this saying true? And if so, in what way does red wine benefit the body?

Recent studies show how that merlots and cabernet sauvignons and other types of red wine offer heart-healthy benefits – helping to keep your need for a cardiologist at bay.

Here’s how:

Red Wine and Blood
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