Are You a Binge Eater?

Everyone occasionally overeats. Most people tend to overeat at parties, family gatherings or recreational events like concerts or ballgames. Many people overeat when they’re stressed, bored, lonely or depressed. When food becomes a crutch and you feel like you can’t stop eating, it’s time...

Obesity and Changes In Your Brain

With all of the proven research about the dangerous health effects of obesity, it flies in the face of logic that so many of us just keep on eating. When you consider that obesity can lead to painful and deadly conditions like high blood pressure, diabetes, heart disease, arthritis and cancer, you would...

Drink and Be Merry This Holiday Season…But Don’t Overdo It

Many people are gearing up to celebrate the holidays and ring in the New Year with loved ones. At holiday gatherings all over the world, people will enjoy festivities, feast on delicious food and drink plenty of booze. No booze for yours truly, however. I don’t do alcohol, other than the occasional...

Why Quitting Smoking Should Not Be An “Option”

I can only imagine how hard it is to quit smoking, being a nonsmoker. I’ve lost several relatives, including my father, and close friends through the years because they couldn’t quit. Some tried unsuccessfully; others simply couldn’t last a few hours without taking a puff. For many smokers,...

6 Easy Ways to Cut Calories – It’s Far Easier Than You Would Ever Believe

Have you ever noticed that the first thing that most folks do when they’re looking to lose weight is to eat less? Well, that’s not a bad start, but did you realise there are far easier ways to cut calories out of your diet. A prime example would be to swap full-fat milk with the semi-skimmed...

Are You Getting Enough Iron in Your Diet?

Have you been feeling more tired than usual lately? Do you find yourself reaching for a sweater when everyone else is wearing short sleeves? Are you getting sick more often than usual?  Has your work performance suffered because you’re too fatigued to get through the day? If you have been plagued with any...

Who Else Would Like To Know How To Eat Less – ONE Simple Rule With EIGHT Easy Solutions

Before we talk about how to eat less – did you know that men eat 80 calories a minute on average, whereas women consume 52 calories? Losing weight is typically about eating less and exercising more, but how exactly do you train yourself to eat less. Well, I’m ready to offer you one simple...

The Whey To Fast Weight Loss

If you could increase your fat weight loss by simply adding a daily drink to your diet, wouldn’t that be great? That could be possible with whey protein drinks. Recent studies are showing that whey protein may be great for weight loss.  There are a variety of protein drinks available with the sources of...

Think Twice Before Downing That Diet Soda

Diet Soda May Cause Weight Gain How many times have you seen overweight people push a grocery cart full of Lean Cuisine dinners and diet soda? While their intentions are noble, their weight never seems to change. In fact, their weight keeps on going up. Perhaps this is even happening to you and you are...

What’s Your Cholesterol Level?

Do you know your cholesterol level? Have you ever had it checked? Most people don’t think about their blood cholesterol until they have a routine blood test or they have a heart attack they fortunately live to tell about. Because it has no symptoms, you can have high cholesterol and not even know...

Vitamin D Deficiency and Obesity

Medical professionals are just discovering the importance of optimal Vitamin D levels in preventing dangerous diseases such as cancer, osteoporosis and heart disease. Research done within the past few years has shown that the previous RDA for vitamin D was too low and that vitamin D deficiency is more common...

Yo-Yo Dieting and Your Hormones

The New England Journal of Medicine recently reported on a study called ‘Long-Term Persistence of Hormonal Adaptations to Weight Loss’ that implicates appetite-regulating hormones as the trigger behind regaining weight in yo-yo dieting. Remember our articles on leptin, insulin and ghrelin? Yep, those are...

Salt and Your Health

Salt gets a bad rap in today’s health-conscious society, but it contains a very essential mineral your  body needs: sodium. Sodium helps maintain a normal balance of fluid in your body. It’s also necessary for normal transmission of nerve impulses and muscle contraction. Sodium levels are...

Alcohol and Weight Loss – Is There a Place for Alcohol in Your Weight Loss Plans?

It’s often been said that alcohol lowers your inhibitions, although many of us took this to be some kind of sexual reference. While this may be true – drinking alcohol typically decreases your inhibitions when it comes to controlling your food intake … and this is not good if you are...

Milk Does the Body Good, So Why Aren’t We Drinking More?

A 2010 report compiled by the USDA Dietary Guideline Advisory Committee states that most Americans don’t drink enough milk. According to the report, women and girls drink less than two cups of milk per day. Men and boys drink a little more but still less than three cups of per day.  A healthy diet...

Healthy Fast Food Restaurants – 10 Tips That Prove You Can Eat Out Without Piling on the Pounds

Eating out at a restaurant is a part of our lives – whether it’s for a business meeting, a romantic meal, or simply fast food with the kids. Let’s face the facts, eating out is fast, easy, fun … but is it healthy? Well that depends! If you plan ahead and make sensible choices, healthy...

Natural Weight Loss Supplements

Natural weight loss supplements are a great thing to use if you are looking for ways to support weight loss either by controlling hunger, boosting your metabolism, curbing cravings or burning fat.  But, of all the hundreds of products out there, what’s hype and what actually works? Of course we can’t...

Did You Drink Your Water Today?

Drinking plenty of water every day can help you keep your waistline small. When you take sips of water during your meals, you start feeling full faster and you eat less. Drinking water also aids in burning fat by helping your liver metabolize fat more efficiently. Water is the second most essential substance...

How Much Water Should You Drink A Day (Part 2)

Hi, and welcome to part 2 of – “How Much Water Should You Drink a Day“. In part 1 we looked at various rules/formulas, as to how much water should be consumed on a daily basis. However, we also discussed the potential factors that may affect your daily water consumption. Therefore, in...

Top 10 BEST Health Foods

There are certain kinds of foods that pack more of a nutritional punch than others. Of course, everyone knows that raw, living fruits and vegetables have more health and nutrition than processed, packaged foods, but did you know that there are other kinds of foods even more powerful than health foods? These...