How To Avoid Gaining Weight During The Holidays

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!The holidays are synonymous with an abundance of rich foods and overindulgence. During this time, most health-conscious people strive to maintain their weight because dieting is practically impossible. In fact, the average American typically gains between one and five pounds [...]

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10 Possible Causes Of The Obesity Epidemic

It’s well accepted that reduced physical activity and fast food are linked to obesity. But the evidence that these are the main causes of obesity is largely circumstantial. To stimulate debate, experts suggest 10 other possible causes of obesity, outlined in the International Journal of Obesity. 1. Sleep debt. Getting too little sleep can increase [...]

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Food Pyramid

For those of you who don’t know, the food pyramid is a carefully drawn up plan of exactly what the human body needs nutritionally. That is, the food pyramid is a guide to help us determine what we should eat everyday. It doesn’t have a set menu of food that you need to eat per [...]

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Food Nutrition Facts Just The Facts

Do you enjoy a good cup of coffee in the morning before you workout? I think a lot of athletes do. The caffeine in coffee has been a good selling point for its usage. Everyone enjoys the pick me up that coffee does give. A little known side effect of coffee is its laxative effects. [...]

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Food Nutrition Facts

If you’re a parent then you know just how important nutrition can be to your growing child. You’ll also know just how difficult it is to get that nutrition into your child. It’s an almost impossible task these days to get your child to eat properly, and it’s probably a good bet that you don’t [...]

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How To Avoid Destroying Your Diet With Your Sweet Tooth (whey Protein, Healthy Chocolate, And Weight

One of the most difficult things for people to get rid of in their diet is the sweets. The candies, doughnuts, chocolate, caramels, candy bars, pies, and cakes. All of these items are huge bombs in a normal healthy diet. Yet, it is very hard for people to get rid of them. Many food nutrition [...]

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How The Purest Fish Oil Can Help You Enjoy The Maximum Health Rewards Safely

Finding the purest fish oil is no easy task these days with them being such a popular supplement, but it is essential to know what to look for as with a bad one you may be unwittingly introducing substances into your body that you do not want like mercury, PCBs and lead. The difference in [...]

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How Successful Will Junk Food Ban In Schools Be?

With a new school year comes a new policy that will be enforced starting this year. There will be a school junk food ban that would discontinue the distribution and sale of junk food at school. As of last year, schools already started to change some of the food sold in the cafeteria. Granola bars [...]

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How Sports Supplements Fit Into The World Of Sports.

Sports nutrition supplements are taken by a wide cross section of people participating in a wide range of sports, games, hobbies or pastimes. Nothing can match sport nutrition to get a trim, and toned physique your friends will be envious about. A few make the choice to body build, either for themselves or professionally. Meeting [...]

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Food Labeling Terms And What They Mean To You.

Calories and serving sizes The first number to look for is the calories. Calories are an essential number if you are trying to control your weight, but calories alone will not give you the entire picture. What you really have to look for in the label are two numbers: Calories and Serving Size. In fact [...]

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