Diet & Fitness / Healthy Eating
You are about to walk out of the supermarket and there it is, that sweet jelly donut you’ve been craving all day. You know you shouldn’t have it. What do you do? Well, you have two options. You could accede to your desires and buy that donut and feel guilty…
Diet & Fitness / Healthy Eating
If you haven’t heard of the Paleolithic diet by now, you’ve probably been living under a rock. The hottest new trend in the diet industry takes a page out of the history books – or rather, prehistory. The Paleolithic diet – otherwise known as the Paleo diet – has everyone…
Diet & Fitness / Healthy Eating
I know a person who spends hours working out every day – 6 days a week. He has been doing this for the last 60 days and has not lost a single pound. How is that possible? The answer is quite simple – he never changed his diet! When it…
Diet & Fitness / Healthy Eating
Your employer’s having a going away party for the secretary before she goes on maternity leave, you have three birthday parties this weekend and your husband just announced that you’ve been invited to a barbeque at the neighbor’s house. Then again maybe you’re a single twenty something that just seems…
Diet & Fitness / Healthy Eating
If you have been trying to gain muscle for any length of time, you have probably figured out that training is only half of the equation. To gain quality muscular weight, you must take in more calories than you burn, with a significant portion of them coming from protein. This…
Diet & Fitness / Healthy Eating
by Shauna Zamarripa You are what you eat. Eating over-processed, over-packaged and preservative-laden foods has been linked to premature aging and certain diseases. Poor eating habits have been attributed to cancer, cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes and stroke. With all of this information at our fingertips, how do we stave…
Diet & Fitness / Healthy Eating
American restaurants are notorious for providing their patrons with unhealthy food. This statement is true, as we are viewed to be the fattest nation in the world, but it doesn’t apply to eating “American.” Yes, fast food joints are associated with America, and with good reason, but those are shoddy…
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Over worked, short on time? Americans need convenience and frozen dinners provide that to us. It is possible to eat healthy and “zap” a meal! It is almost impossible to choose a frozen dinner, while strolling down the frozen food isle. There are so many choices. You want to look…
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Mexican restaurant food is a lot like a girl with a bad reputation. Everyone focuses on the faults without seeing the good qualities underneath. Contrary to the rumors, fresh, wholesome foods are lurking under the cheese and sour cream of a typical Mexican meal. To eat more sensibly and still…
Diet & Fitness / Healthy Eating
When you were a kid, your mother probably struggled to get you to eat enough fruits and vegetables. Now that you’re grown up, you may be struggling to follow through on mom’s advice on your own. Fruits and vegetables are loaded with vitamins, fiber, and antioxidants, yet many adult women…