Diet & Fitness / Healthy Eating
When you’re trying to lose weight and maintain a healthy lifestyle, cutting out dessert and sweets can be one of the biggest obstacles to your success. Eating low-sugar or low-fat desserts may not satisfy your fierce sweet tooth, and the result can be some very strong cravings for sugar and…
Diet & Fitness / Healthy Eating
Ask most people what their New Year’s Resolutions were, and you’ll likely find a common answer to lose weight. With so many of us wanting to shed the pounds, why is the obesity pandemic reaching new heights? Weight loss tends to conjure up images of near starvation and tons of…
Diet & Fitness / Healthy Eating
By Mellisa How to lose weight with your partner could mean losing at love. Not losing love for your partner of course, but it might mean you have to lose some of the foods you love. It’s always easier if you lose with love, with your partner standing by your…
Diet & Fitness / Healthy Eating
You may have already heard about celebrities and famous people enjoying the benefits of a raw food diet, a diet plan that involves eliminating meat, processed foods and any type of cooked food completely from the daily menu. The raw food diet program follows certain principles and guidelines so that…
Diet & Fitness / Healthy Eating
With our hectic lives and breakneck pace, drive-thrus are often the go-to destination for many meals. And while it’s convenient, it’s our health that pays the real price. Most drive-thru fare is a poor substitute for a home-cooked meal; it has little nutritional value, excessive fat and sodium, and can…
Diet & Fitness / Healthy Eating
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
by Elizabeth Kelly Sometimes it seems like the secret to successful dieting hinges on just a few seconds of your day. You’ve been so good: writing in your food journal, sticking to the plan, passing up the office snacks. Then it happens. It may be that moment when you get…
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According to the American Heart Association, our bodies need lots of fiber in order to be healthy and function properly. Fiber is that part of plants comprised of materials that cannot be broken down by enzymes and digested. Fiber helps to slow our digestive system down, allowing the body to…
Diet & Fitness / Healthy Eating
Eating and sticking with a low-calorie diet is one of the biggest challenges for most dieters, and it’s a plan that backfires for more than 90 percent of dieters. How can you lose weight without regaining the weight back in a few weeks? The answer is to cut calories slowly…
Diet & Fitness / Healthy Eating
Fasting is a practice that predates biblical times and the relevancy of fasting has been debated for many years. When considering whether fasting is right for you, you must first understand your own body and know what you can handle. Fasting is a deprivation of the body from food for…