Detox diets: Flushing toxins or good sense?
Tammy Koby, 44, hadn’t felt healthy in a long time. She was bogged down and overweight. Within a period of just a few years, doctors diagnosed irritable bowel syndrome, allergies, liver problems, and Type 2 diabetes.
She wanted a holistic solution, but the Main Line resident said her doctors focused solely on treating her individual symptoms.
Then [...]
Morning Banana Diet: The weight loss wonder food
The Morning Banana Diet is possibly the world’s easist diet to follow – except in Japan where its intense popularity has led to the nation’s worst-ever banana shortage.
Banana importer, Dole Japan Company, has increased supplies by 25 per cent over the corresponding period last year but is still struggling to meet demand.
Consequently, banana prices are [...]
MUFAS Pizza that combats your belly fat
Everywhere you turn you see articles on the “flat belly diet.” If you are constantly watching your weight you must be curious about this new weight-loss concept.
It is based on eating mini-meals of specific food groups that will encourage your metabolism to burn calories aggressively and then go after fat tissue.
Since many of us “house” [...]
Consumer Report ranks kid’s cereals
Consumer Report published a ranking of kid’s cereals which revealed the shocking fact that some kid’s cereals may contain the equivalent of a doughnut in sugar. For example, the report states that Kelogg’s Honey Smacks and Post Golden Strip get almost 60% of their calories from sugar. This is certainly not healthy for kids and [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Most people get too much sodium in their diet
Most people use too much sodium (salt, sodium chloride). The upper limit on sodium comes from a panel of experts, and often different panels come up with different limits. One group sets the upper daily limit at 2,400 mg of sodium. Another would like people to use less, somewhere in the range of 1,200 mg [...]
