When you compare health insurance quotes, they may be lower if you adopt healthy behaviors like not smoking and maintaining a healthy weight. I wonder if you can get a discount on your health insurance quotes by eating some of the seven healthiest foods. While that may be a stretch, keeping healthy is important and if simply eating the right foods can help you with that, why not do it. According to Matthew Thompson’s Eating Well article, “7 of the healthiest foods you should be eating but aren’t,” there are great health benefits to some foods that you aren’t likely eating.
Kale is filled with antioxidants to fight cancer, as well as Vitamins A & C, so try to eat more of this dark green vegetable. While many people are turned off by the thought of sardines, Rachael Ray assures me they just add a salty, nutty flavor. They are also Vitamin D and the omega-3 fats that keep your heart healthy and your mood happy. Pomegranates are fairly time-consuming to prepare, but are well worth it for their antioxidants that fight off cancer, Alzheimers, and heart disease. Drinking pomegranate juice is much easier and still low in calories and rich in antioxidants.
The high fiber and slow-release carbohydrates in oatmeal help to make it a superfood. These things help lower your bad cholesterol and your body fat. Quinoa is loaded with both fiber and protein and cooks up fast. The combination of high fiber and protein also helps you feel full for longer. Kefir is a dairy product similar to yogurt but in a drinkable form. Its filled with probiotics to keep your immune system working hard and almost one-third of your daily calcium. Lentils are good for protein, fiber, iron, and folate. These are surely not the only superfoods, but they are those that the author believes are most overlooked. Health insurance companies welcome any healthy behavior by their participants and may even promote eating some of these superfoods.
The Los Angeles Times published an article by Marni Jameson of The Orlando Sentinel about coffee preventing Type 2 Diabetes. In “Coffee helps prevent diabetes, now scientists learn why,” the author says that scientists believe they have figured out why coffee helps prevent diabetes. It is not new information that those who drink four cups of coffee a day lower their diabetes risk, but this is the first time that scientists think they have figured out why.
It’s hard for parents to determine when they should take their sick kids into the doctor and when it is okay to ride it out at home. With the rising 
The Plan B morning after pill actually won’t be available on the shelves of drugstores, according to the Associated Press article “Morning-after pill stays behind counter after all, by Lauran Neergaard. Plans were in place to make the morning after pill available on store shelves after a recommendation by the FDA, but Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius stopped those plans. Her decision is backed by the Obama administration. Sebelius said that she worries a product like the morning after pill will confuse 11-year olds shopping at drugstores. While the 
After undergoing a double lumpectomy last month, Giuliana Rancic of E! News is now planning for a double mastectomy. This information is from MSNBC’s Today Show website. The original procedure did not eradicate all of her breast cancer, so after much thought she has decided to go the route of more radical treatment. Her breast cancer was found in a routine mammogram required before undergoing fertility treatments at her clinic in Colorado. After the breast cancer was found this year, Rancic opted for a double lumpectomy, followed by radiation. She learned recently that the lumpectomy had not gotten all of the cancerous cells on one side and was faced with a tough decision. She could either have another lumpectomy in hopes that it would get all the cancer or opt for the double mastectomy.
Elective c-sections and inductions have become increasingly popular over the last few decades. Women who were uncomfortable, wanted their baby born on a certain day for a tax break or a special number, or hoped to be home from the hospital by a holiday or special event were scheduling to have their babies earlier than full term. There are definitely medically necessary early c-sections and inductions performed, and that will not change. But those women hoping to have their babies early for the convenience factor are going to find it harder to get an elective c-section or induction. This is according to Lylah Alphonse’s Parenting article posted on Yahoo! Shine, “More Hospitals Banning Elective C Sections.”
