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The United States is facing a health crisis of unprecedented proportions: Two-thirds of Americans are overweight or obese. Diabetes and heart disease rates are on the rise. For the first time in living history, the life expectancy of America’s children is less than that of their parents.

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The idea of milk as a healthy food is so ingrained in our culture that most of us accept it without question. From an early age, we are taught that drinking milk is essential for getting enough calcium and building strong bones. Milk is the “healthy” beverage of choice in school lunch programs, and a key ingredient in the Institute of Medicine’s recommendations for improving school meals.

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An important mineral that is often overlooked in modern medicine, magnesium is essential to several hundred different functions in the body. Mark Sircus, Ac,. OMD, director of the International Medical Veritas Association and author of several books on the subject of magnesium, believes that 68% of Americans do not consume enough magnesium to meet the government’s recommended daily allowance (RDA), and that the government’s RDA is already set too low to adequately prevent illness.

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On a recent episode of The Dr. Oz Show, Dr. Mehmet Oz revealed his list of the best five superfoods to start eating in 2010. You may have never heard of some of these foods before, but all have powerful anti-aging and disease-fighting properties. Adding these foods to your diet can greatly benefit your health and help you feel more energetic, youthful, and alive.

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The average diet contains far too much sugar, according to osteopathic physician and natural health care practitioner Dr. Joseph Mercola. Sugar naturally occurs in many foods and is added, in one form or another, to most processed foods, making it to difficult to avoid. Excess sugar consumption can lead to high blood pressure, high cholesterol, heart disease, obesity, premature aging, and other health issues.

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You may be familiar with the ads produced by the Corn Refiners Association (CRA) claiming that high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS) is made from corn, has no artificial ingredients, has the same calories as table sugar, and is “fine in moderation.” The CRA ads urge consumers to “get the facts” by visiting its HFCS Web site, SweetSurprise, where further claims are made about HFCS’s role in a healthy lifestyle.

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Once a prized crop of South American’s Inca civilizations, quinoa fell out of popularity for hundreds of years and has only recently been rediscovered. Quinoa (pronounced KEEN-wa) is a nutritionally dense and extremely versatile food. Though often considered a grain, quinoa is actually a seed from a plant that is related to spinach and chard.

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If you buy beef at your local supermarket, chances are it comes from cows that were fed corn. Though cows are ruminants by nature, designed to digest grass, the cattle industry has been using corn for decades to fatten up cattle. A grain-based diet, however, causes many health problems for cattle — and unhealthy cows mean unhealthy meat. Not only does meat from corn-fed cows carry the risk of pathogens such as E. coli, it is nutritionally inferior to meat from grass-fed cows.

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