You needn’t dread bread. It’s the butter, margarine or cream cheese you put on it that’s fattening, not the bread itself. We’ll say this as often as needed – fat is fattening. If you don’t believe that, ponder this – a gram of carbohydrate has four calories, a gram of protein four, and a gram [...]
An Apple a Day Does More Than Keep the Doctor Away!
“An apple a day keeps the doctor away.” How many times have you heard that one? Well, it seems apples do more than just keep the doctor away, they also help you to lose weight! This marvelous piece of fruit has many benefits that shouldn’t be ignored. First of all, apples elevate your blood glucose [...]
The High Protein/Low Carb Diet – A Weight Loss Myth?
This type of diet aims to secure most of the daily required amount of calories from protein foods, such as meat, dairy products and eggs, with a very small part taken from foods containing a lot of carbs (bread, pasta, potatoes and fruits). The biggest problem with this diet is that many common and popular [...]
Five Foods That Fight Flab
While on a weight loss plan, it can sometimes be difficult to decide what foods to eat. If you’re attempting to change your diet for the better, you should consider adding foods that fight flab. Each of these foods packs are a high nutritional punch and a low calorie count. Most contain essential nutrients – [...]
Juice Recipes For Weight Loss
After the drinking of water, juice recipes for weight loss have to be one of the most natural and best ways to stay healthy as you lose weight. Forget about the fad diets, the celebrity endorsed virtual starvation weight loss programs, adding natural healthy juices to your daily eating plan is streets ahead. The first [...]
Boost Energy & Control Hunger
Protein is found in all of your body’s cells. It is the essential nutrient that is responsible for the maintenance and repair of all of your organs, tissues, muscles, brain and bones. This individual built in repair kit occurs at the cellular level in our bodies. Protein regulates everything – our blood circulation, our metabolism [...]
Are you Starving to Lose Weight?
It’s never too late to rethink on your diet plan and make fresh and realistic health resolutions. It is the right time to take stock of the situation. Ask yourself: Are we being fair to ourselves when we make these strict guidelines of diet and exercise? Most people recoil at the thought of dieting and [...]
10 Easy to Implement Ways to a Healthy-Diet for Kids
Creating a nutritionally healthy home is one of the most important steps you can take to ensure the health of your child. To start, make smart food choices, and help your child develop a positive relationship with healthy food. Your children will learn their food smarts from your example. Here are the top 10 tips [...]
Two Healthy Eating Facts You Shouldn’t Ignore
There are certain healthy eating facts that don’t change no matter what kind of a diet you follow, or what kind of lifestyle you have. First, whether you’re sedentary or active, too much saturated fat isn’t good for you. Whether you eat 1600 calories a day or 2500, depending on your activity level, trans fats [...]
