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Eating a Mediterranean diet has been linked to lower risk of heart disease, cancer, obesity, diabetes, and chronic diseases but now new studies have shown that it is also associated with lower levels of Alzheimer&undefined;s disease if paired with regular physical activity.

Your food choices make all the difference in how you look and feel but sometimes no matter how healthy you try to be it doesn’t work. This is due mostly to false information we are fed or have been led to believe. Here are a few surprising examples of foods that may be leading you in the wrong direction when it comes to your health:

Summer is all about being outdoors, even when it comes to your cooking. No one wants to slave over a hot stove when the heat is already unbearable so a lot of people end up pulling out the BBQ and taking the cooking to the outdoors. Unfortunately, it is easy to overload on calories on the BBQ with heavy sauces, meats and other sides such as potato salad and chips.

If you are looking for ways to lose weight in a healthy way, then a flexitarian diet may be for you. A flexitarian diet is one that is centred around vegetables, fruits and plant based products with very little meat. The idea is to eat whole and natural foods while only eating meat once in a while.

It can be difficult to feed your children healthy foods. First of all many kids are quite picky about what they eat and secondly they are exposed to so many unhealthy foods at school that it is hard to get them to choose a healthy packed lunch instead of fried cafeteria food.

Digestive problems are one of the most common ailments today and they affect millions around the world.  The main reason behind this is our diet. Humans only used to eat what was available to them from the Earth-fresh fruits & vegetables, herbs, and meat that had no antibiotics or hormones it it.

When it comes to weight loss different approaches work for different people. Some find that exercise is key and others lose or maintain a healthy weight by following a strict diet. What does work for both health and weight loss for everyone is a raw food diet.

If you do one thing this year it should be look after your heart. Heart disease is one of the top killers and sadly, much of it can be prevented if you look after yourself properly. This includes exercise, less stress, and diet. Here are three foods that you should add to your diet in 2009 to look after your most important organ.