June 20, 2010

• Don’t Eat Standing Up, and Other Weight Loss Tips

  Are you on a diet but getting nowhere fast? It can be hard to keep off the fatty foods when you don’t see your diet moving forward. But how can you lose that weight faster? Try these weight loss tips and watch the weight start dropping off.

  Don’t eat standing up — Remember this old wives [...]

June 9, 2010

• Juice (or Blend) Your Way to Health: How Owning a Juicer/Blender Can Help You Lose Weight

  There are so many blenders out there on the market. But how can a blender help you lose weight without turning to diet pills? Follow our weight loss tips for advice on how to use your blender to your advantage.
  Soups
  So many of the pre-prepared soups that you can buy in the shops have unhealthy ingredients [...]

June 14, 2009

• The Metabolic Risks of Yo-Yo Diets

  Are you a yo-yo dieter?  Do you love the results you get right away but get bummed out when the weight comes back after almost no time?  If your diet is characterized by periods of near starvation diets, missed meals, or very low calories you should know that you’ll be vulnerable to the yo-yo diet [...]

May 19, 2009

• Coconut Oil Diet

  Seems counter intuitive to some to base a diet on an oil, I’m sure.  But the Coconut oil diet has really become the latest rage, and there’s good evidence to back it up.  You see, coconut oil is unusually rich in medium chain fatty acids (MCT) and lauric acid is the major fatty acid that [...]

May 11, 2009

• Blood Type Diet

  Most of us out there who are interested in the latest diet have heard of the Blood Type diet and maybe have even tried it.  But what is it about blood type that relates to the foods we eat?  Diet inventor, Peter D’Adamo believes that lectins, a form of protein found in foods, can wreak [...]

April 6, 2009

• Cabbage Soup Diet

  Do you remember the old cabbage soup diet?  Maybe you have heard of it but have no idea what the diet actually entails?  Well, I want to tell you that it is not just cabbage soup, which will come as a relief to some.  But that doesn’t mean it hasn’t got all of the great [...]

March 16, 2009

• Low Carb Diets Rock

  It’s quite counterintuitive I think, to not blame fat for your body being fat.  We’ve been told to avoid saturated fats for so long that to shift our fat attitudes and begin to embrace fat is kind of scary for some.  But a 12-month study out of Stanford University, published not long ago in the [...]

March 3, 2009

• The Grapefruit Diet Revisited

  This is one of the oldest diets in the book, and yet, the Grapefruit diet seems to have real staying power, despite all of the popular diets of today, such as the Zone and Atkins.  For those who don’t know, the premise of the Grapefruit Diet is that there is an ingredient in grapefruits, that, [...]

February 25, 2009

• Diet From the Stone Age

  It’s pretty crazy to think that the healthiest diet for humans may have been the one we followed before the development of agriculture. But there’s a growing number of people who believe in this type of diet and feel their very best when eating a diet free of grains and dairy. During the Paleolithic Era, [...]

February 12, 2009

• Mediterranean Diet for Long-Term Weight Loss

  We all know how important it is to eat our fruits and veggies even though most us can never seem to get enough of them!  Well more research has come out from Spain on the dietary patterns associated with a high intake of fruits and vegetables in Mediterranean populations and its benefit for keeping weight [...]