Your metabolism is the rate your body converts the calories you eat and drink into energy. Each person’s natural metabolism rate varies. The rate of metabolism naturally begins to slow down for most people after the age of 40 because the amount of muscle tends to decrease. A slowed metabolism reduces the calorie burn [...]
Eating for health reasons isn’t the only incentive to attack those fruits, veggies and low-carb grains. The secret to having a younger looking body lies in three easy diet tips. Eat Three Meals with No Snacking Between Although the six to eight meals a day plan is popular, many people leave out the mini [...]
As you know, most produce tends to only be available in certain seasons. Therefore, with each change in seasons, you may have to adjust your diet to align with the fruits that are currently in season. Now that spring is here, consider incorporating these healthy spring fruits into your diet. Peaches and Apricots Two delicious [...]
In recent years, more and more studies on diet sodas and their effects on the human body have been an interest within the scientific community. Theories have been thrown back and forth, but no concrete correlation between obesity and diet sodas have been found...until now. According to a recent study by Eran Segal and [...]
It happens every spring. You toss open the windows, shed your winter coat, and suddenly get the urge to clean your house. But do you ever think about "spring cleaning" your body? Although staying healthy in the winter may seem limited, there's plenty of excellent ways to keep your health regimen out of the cold. [...]
Research shows that losing weight is harder now than it’s ever been. Even with calorie-counting and exercise, it’s often difficult to shed extra pounds. It isn’t necessarily that we’re eating more or exercising less. What’s causing our waistlines to widen and our scale readings to skyrocket? One primary contributing culprit is processed food. Genetically modified organisms [...]
What's that noise? It sounds familiar--and it feels like it originated in your stomach--so then it must be--Hunger pangs! But why would hunger pangs start rumbling like an active volcano in your stomach just a few hours after eating a four-course meal? Is your stomach really growling and grumbling because it needs food? Probably [...]
People are migrating to a "real food" approach these days. This is where processed foods, especially those that are fried or artificially sweetened, are largely avoided because they hold little nutritional value. Below are three real food diet foods that are essential to the "real food diet", and some quick and fulfilling unprocessed meal [...]
Welcome back to part two of our Clean Eating edition. Today is all about setting you up to successfully experience clean eating. Our goal is to provide the proper information to make sure you are completely prepared when making the change to your lifestyle. We will also go the benefits of clean eating for [...]
There is a common misconception that exercise is the greatest contributor to weight loss when in fact, what you eat and your level of physical activity work together to burn fat and build muscle. Research shows that food contributes to 75% of our fitness results, whereas exercise takes care of the remaining 25%. Since our [...]