Foods & Nutrition
You have probably seen the advertisements on television. For several years now, starch blockers have been offered as a possibility to assist in weight loss. Doesn't that idea sound great? To think, you could just take a pill once or twice daily and eat all the starchy foods you love. Fresh steamy...
Breakfast is the most important meal of the day. To start the day right, you have to eat right, too. I have listed below the top 5 breakfast foods according to their nutritional value. The list is arranged from fifth to first, with the fifth being the least healthy and the first the most packed w...
Perhaps you have heard that drinking alcohol will make you fat. The idea is furthered through some of our language choices. If a man is overweight and carries that weight around his middle section, he is referred to as having a beer-gut. Recent research has shown that drinking alcohol does not ma...
Our world is a fatty one. We rely on fat more than air it seems. Whenever we go out to lunch on our lunch break, we avoid all of the healthy alternatives we could have and instead gorge ourselves on a Whopper or Big Mac which are loaded with fat, salt and oil. All this is doing is dragging us dow...
One of the newer weight loss scams propagated in our time is that Acai berry weight loss scam. It is just another fad diet that claims you can lose weight in weeks by adding Acai berries into your diet. From claims of better sleep, metabolism, digestion, and it even claims to make your skin look ...
Fruits and vegetables are an essential part of our daily diet, or at least they should be. Statistics show that almost nobody eats the recommended seven servings daily and this is a very frightening fact. It is also not very understandable, since everyone will find vegetables that taste good to t...
The human body is a living and breathing manifestation of the glory and marvel of science. It has been doing nothing but achieving equilibrium. This is not mere happenstance, as the body has been battling for balance since the day we were born - maintaining an upright position, keeping us in the ...
Many people have the compulsion to literally starve themselves in order to fit into their swimsuits for pool season. Many off the wall fad diets get their start this way. The only real secret to losing weight is that there is no secret: Eat healthy! The real way to losing weight is to burn off mo...
The fact that some foods are worse for you than others is very well known. The only thing that people do not know is which foods are among the 10 worst foods to eat. Just by learning which foods are bad for you and which are good you will notice a positive change. You will suddenly feel better, h...
One of the widest spread health disorders in the world is definitely obesity. It is estimated that over 64% of Americans are overweight and over 36% are obese. Now these figures show how big a problem of being overweight has become. This is perhaps caused by variety of factors such as eating too ...