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High Fiber Diet – are you getting enough fiber?
Understanding fiber may be the single most important step you can take in improving your health. Fiber is sometimes also called roughage. A healthy diet should have a high component of fiber food intake. A high-fiber diet may also help reduce the risk of heart disease and diabetes. Age old thumb rule lays down [...]
Low Fat, Low Carb, or Mediterranean cooking?
Obesity is a worldwide problem and is getting worse. Losing weight is difficult for most people. A study in the New England Journal of Medicine reports fewer than 25 percent of Americans who try diets actually lose weight and a majority who do lose weight have difficulty maintaining the loss. Billions of dollars are spent on weight loss programs. VOA’s Melinda Smith has more on recent findings that may put to rest the argument about which diet works the best.
Realistic weight loss in one month?
Even if have the tools and motivation to have the most realistic and individualized weight management program, it will not work if you have the wrong expectations and attitude.
Impatience will not lead you to the finish line. Some people would cut down drastically on food intake and/or exercise for more than two hours a day [...]
Hiring a personal trainer can be a smart investment
Whether you are new to exercise and need instruction on using exercise equipment or you are a seasonal athlete and want some specific training guidance, working with an experienced personal trainer can help you reach your goals.
A personal trainer will instruct you, keep you focused, and offer timely information, as well as plan an individualized [...]
Tea-Diets – is not your everyday diet tea
Tea-Diets based on Vancouver has taken the dieting world by swirl and has introduced the revolutionary concept of consume more to lose more which is against the basic principle of dieting. The company markets a wide range of slimming teas and diet teas which give requires a new word to describe it-TEAVOLUTION.
Gone are those days [...]
10 Volumetrics Tricks to Help You Lose Weight
Volumetrics – the term Barbara Rolls, professor and Guthrie chair of nutrition at Pennsylvania State University, has coined to describe the method, which is based on a simple principle: People tend to eat the same weight, or amount, of food from day to day. Since some foods are less energy dense-that is, they have fewer [...]
Making Changes to Create the Results You Want
People just like you give up on their weight loss program everyday because they don’t get the results they want. Though they may lose weight quickly in the beginning, all of a sudden weight loss seems slower or stops altogether. Losing weight shouldn’t be a solitary activity. It is suggested to enlist [...]
Anti-Aging Expert Notes That Not All Hearing Problems Are Related to Ear Wax
Medical Intuitive Caroline Sutherland, whose latest book “The Body Knows How to Stay Young” was recently released by the prestigious publisher Hay House, has found compelling evidence indicating that not all hearing problems are related to ear wax buildup. Recent guidelines from the American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery Foundation offered solutions to the [...]
Wellnx Life Sciences Sued for Defrauding Thousands of Consumers of Dietary Supplements
Consumers in sixteen states have filed lawsuits against Canadian company Wellnx Life Sciences, which markets and sells three dietary supplements throughout the United States, and against its owners and senior managers, Derek Woodgate, Brad Woodgate and Scott Welch. The cases, which were pending in federal courts and consolidated in U.S. District Court in Boston, accuse [...]
Four women share how they lost weight, how they keep it off
Together, these four women lost almost 300 pounds after reaching a turning point. Because finding out what worked for others can be the motivation someone needs to find her own turning point, today we share their stories.
Jennifer Schrader, 35
Lost: 110 pounds. It took about a year, beginning in January 2007.
What made her do it: A [...]
