Nutritionist-Dietitians' Association of the Philippines

FORUM: Healthy Choices: Embracing a Lifestyle Friday, August 24, 2012 Manila Doctors Hospital, 12th floor 8:00 AM - 12:00 noon

One of the best ways to get a handle on your diet is to analyze the total of all nutrients that you consume over the course of an entire day. This is very easy to do with My Tracking.

According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, physical activity can bring you many health benefits. People who enjoy participating in moderate-intensity or vigorous-intensity physical activity on a regular basis benefit by lowering their risk of developing coronary heart disease, stroke, non-insulin-dependent (type 2) diabetes mellitus, high blood pressure, and colon cancer by 30-50 percent (USDHHS, 1996). Additionally, active people have lower premature death rates than people who are inactive.

This month's issue of the Journal of the American Dietetic Association includes a study that compares the antioxidant content of different kinds of sugar. Katherine Phillips and her team at Viginia Tech found "substantial differences" in the different sugars they studied...