| Prevention's 100 best diet tips from leading experts
AOL Diet & Fitness is featuring Prevention's 100 Smartest Diet Tips Ever, and it is by far one of the most creative and common sense approaches to achieving and maintaining a healthy weight -- and in hedging your bets with good nutrition against being diagnosed with diseases like cancer. The tips are from registered dietitians in private practice and respected in their field as heads of specialty practice groups for the American Dietetic Association.
Whether you are someone who can only make a small practical change -- or -- looking for ideas on how to get more veggie-goodness into your day -- or -- easy tricks to cut calories -- or -- healthy low-cal dinner ideas if you don't feel like cooking -- there is something for everyone in the list of 100 smartest diet tips ever.
Some of the creative tips include:
* Use a salad plate instead of a dinner plate.
Dieting key to new Scottish prison plan
GLASGOW, Scotland, Jan. 22 (UPI) -- A new government-sponsored study oriented toward limiting violent behavior through healthy eating is set to take place soon in three Scottish prisons. The study will attempt to improve 1,200 inmates' diets to curb violence and follow the results of several recent studies that linked improved health to better behavior, the Scotsman said. Oxford University Professor John Stein is set to begin the study within the next three months and postulated if the study yields valid results, similar efforts could be applied throughout society. "It is quite clear to me that if this is working among prisoners, it is going to work outside as well," the professor of neurophysiology said. "What we need to be able to do is identify the people at risk and offer them these supplements," he added.
Caffeine: How much is too much?
It's happening to more and more people because the popular and legal stimulant drug is available in so many tasty forms. Super-charged coffee. Super-sized cola. Giant energy drinks. Infused teas. Pills. Caffeine stimulates the central nervous system and speeds up blood flow, which can cause a boost of energy and alertness, albeit temporary. It can also be an analgesic for pain. A love of caffeine, or at least its effects, is nothing new despite the rows of new products in just about any store that sells sodas or groceries. Nearly 5,000 year ago, the Chinese discovered the wonders of drinking tea. Historians believe coffee beans were used as money and consumed as food in Africa and turned into coffee 1,400 years ago. Caffeinated soft drinks have been around more than a century.
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