OK, you might not currently be classified as a thin person, but that should, in no way, preclude you from thinking like one. In fact, research has shown that it will assist you in becoming one with a little patience and re-configuring how you think about food, exercise and sleep. Act and think thin now…
Or, The Mediterranean Diet: if you don’t know, you better ask someone. For those of you that need to ask, the Mediterranean Diet has been around since the 1960s and stemmed from some research into why people from that region had lower instances of cardiovascular disease when compared to say, America. The answer, we now…
Most people, (including you, I would assume) have heard of gluten and the gluten-free diet. However, hearing about gluten and knowing about gluten are two different things. If you’ve ever desired more info about gluten and the gluten-free diet, this wonderful infographic tells you everything you need to know. It answers vital questions such as:…
There’s no cure-all when it comes to fibromyalgia. However, fibromyalgia may be better managed by diet, which can improve your quality of life with fibromyalgia. Specifically, fibromyalgia-friendly foods can prevent pain flare-ups and boost your energy levels. Let’s look at the ideal diet for a fibromyalgia patient, including foods that help and hurt your body….
My goal is to write this post in such a manner that it doesn’t read like a Weight Watchers history lesson. I hope to achieve this noble, yet difficult goal by focusing on the development and evolution of Weight Watchers’ POINTS system since its inception in 1997. However, it’s next to impossible to discuss the…
Yes, it’s been around for years…well, centuries actually, if you consider that the people who live along the Mediterranean have been eating this way forever. It achieved widespread prominence in North America in the 1990s, although its virtues had been extolled in a work by biologist Ancel Keys and his chemist wife, Margaret, in 1975…
Warning: before I enlighten you regarding your metabolic type, this post will define a lot of terms related to metabolism…beginning with, well, metabolism, which is the chemical process by which your body converts what you eat and drink into energy. Used in a sentence it might sound something like this: “The reason you can eat…
Yes, fitness and health tips and trends change from year-to-year in a manner similar to how car companies generate new models every year. New tips and trends generally mean new things to purchase and new classes to enroll in…capitalism at its finest. However, these new tips and trends offer a change from the monotony of…
And you thought this post was going to be resolution related! Well, it sorta is, but not entirely. If controlling your weight and eating healthier is your resolution, then I guess my first sentence is a falsehood. However, this goal should not simply be a resolution that gets broken after about a month (80% are…
OK, so you’ve put on a few unnecessary pounds over the years but losing weight after 60 isn’t an impossibility. It just, like most everything else in life, takes a plan and a little determination to follow that plan through. “But why, oh esteemed blogger, do I need to lose weight?” I hear you ask….