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You can get your hands on pumpkin seeds on about any store's snack aisle, but your healthiest option may be the old-fashioned way: scooping them out of the stringy guts of that jack-o'-lantern you're carving. That's because store-bought pumpkin seeds – ever more popular because they're easy to eat and loaded with nutrients – may be loaded with salt as well. But when they come straight from the source, pumpkin seeds are lower in sodium and have more of the minerals that make them so nutritious, said Judith Wylie-Rosett, a professor and division head for health promotion and nutrition research at...

Eating foods that are rich in monounsaturated fats is a good thing, but the idea of “good” fats can still be confusing to many people.What Are Monounsaturated Fats?Monounsaturated fats are a type of fatty acid that is generally considered safe when consumed in moderation, particularly if they are replacing less healthy types of fat in your diet. The name monounsaturated comes from the fact that these fatty acids contain one double-bonded carbon and one single-bonded carbon, meaning that they are “not saturated”. The two most common forms of these fats are oleic acid and palmitoleic acid. Our bodies are designed to process and utilize these types...

To lower the cholesterol and fat levels in what you eat, follow the following tips when you are cooking.A good number of your preferred recipes can be made healthier simply by substituting ingredients with lower levels of fat. Go through the list of ingredients in your recipe. Then, look at the table below to check if any of the ingredients are listed in the left column. In that case, you can make the recipe a healthier one using the ingredient in the right column instead.What Should I Substitute?As an alternative to: Whole eggs, egg yolks – Use: Egg whites or ¼ cup egg substituteIn...

The most common now are squid and seaweed. These are the products that probably everyone has tried. Therefore, medicine has become interested in what effect the so-beloved squid has on the human body.The variety of squid, as well as their number, allows you to catch these animals by the ton. Due to its structure, almost all squid is eaten. And the rest is processed into perfumes.The smallest can be considered squid Watasenia scintellans. Their weight is about five grams and the length of the body together with the tentacles is up to three centimeters. And the biggest clams, the so-called...

The lobster is a ten – legged sea crayfish with mobile large pincers. The body of these creatures consists of 20 segments. Adult members of the family can reach 80 cm and weigh about a kilogram.am on the rocky sea floor or in the rock reefs overgrown with algae, shellfish that are more than half a century old are hiding. Biologists talk about the existence of more than 30 species of lobsters, and all of them with their own characteristics. Lobsters are considered one of the oldest arthropods on the planet. It is believed that as a species, these living...