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Nutrition

Everyone in charge of cooking should have a basic knowledge of nutrition.

Smart people eat healthy. When you are looking to enjoy a healthy, balanced diet, or to add variety to your, diet and you do not have a clue what to cook, then the features and tips in this healthy eating category could be just what you need to get you started.

Healthy diet

Vitamins and minerals are essential to good health. It is very likely that we are all familiar with the role of vitamins in our health, not that many know vitamins and minerals work together.

Whole grains are rich in manganese, a mineral involved with control of glucose in blood, and it has been proved that consuming this type of cereals regularly lowers considerably type 2 diabetes risk. Whole rye bread is also rich in fiber – good for a weight loss diet, prevention of the painful gallstones, heart disease – and research has shown that whole grains, such as rye, contain many powerful phytonutrients whose activity has been overlooked. Whole grains have anti-cancer power equal or higher than that of the better known healthy vegetables and fruits.