Overcoming Your Sugar Cravings Naturally

Overcoming Your Sugar Cravings Naturally

Diet & Fitness / Healthy Eating

Sugar cravings are the biggest challenge most of us have to face when choosing a healthy, nourishing diet. Even after learning about the negative health impacts of eating sugar, the thought of reducing or eliminating your sugar consumption can seem like an outrageous and impossible feat. Phasing sugar out of…

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What’s So Great About Grapes?

What’s So Great About Grapes?

Diet & Fitness / Diet Tips

Surely you’ve heard about the health benefits of wine through the grapevine by now. A compound found in wine – a polyphenol called resveratrol — present in red wine in particular, can reduce heart disease risk and ward off some types of cancers, plus Parkinson’s disease. But are grapes just…

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Beneficial Foods for High Blood Pressure

Beneficial Foods for High Blood Pressure

Diet & Fitness / Wellness

It appears that the medical profession the world over are all too quick to prescribe drugs rather than to suggest natural methods of lowering high blood pressure (hypertension). Most of these medicines can have undesirable side effects, so it is a good idea to look for natural methods. It has…

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Can You Be Fat and Fit?

Can You Be Fat and Fit?

Diet & Fitness / Wellness

In today’s world of monitoring everything from your body mass index to measuring your waistline, many people don’t realize that you can be fit and fat at the same time. It is extremely possible to be fit, yet considered overweight by many of today’s standards. A large part of this…

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Medifast

Medifast

Diet Reviews / Prepared Meals

Celebrity endorsements include General Hospital veteran Genie Francis and the original Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Kristy Swanson, both of whom have whittled their waistlines on the Medifast program. What makes the approach so popular with clients is that it’s simplistic. There is no counting — not calories, not carbs, not…

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