Why the Standard American Diet May Be Killing You
The standard American Diet (SAD) is dropping people left and right. If you eat what everyone else eats, why would you have a healthy diet? This dinner looks healthy, doesn’t it? Read more...
Why Do People Think Nutella Is So Healthy?
Yet another health conscious person posted she was eating healthy and gave examples, one of which was Nutella! WTF, this is spreadable sugar! Read more…
Is Ensure a Health Drink or Liquid Candy? CAN It Be Healthy?
If you’re 75 pounds, 88 years old and won’t eat anything but Ensure, this liquid candy will help keep you alive. But other than that, Ensure is essentially a sugary concoction made in a Read more...
Another Red Meat Causes Cancer Study: Hype or Truth?
What’s going on with the studies linking meat and protein to higher rates of cancer? One of the most startling reports to make rounds not too long ago comes from Valter Longo, professor of biogerontology Read more...
How to Make Vanilla Protein Powder with Water Tolerable
Here’s a very simple way to make any brand of whey vanilla protein powder highly tolerable when mixed with water and so easy to drink. There’s no need to make a “shake” every time you Read more...
Why Intuitive Eating Can Make You Gain Fat Weight
Beware of “intuitive eating,” despite its funky sounding name; it could make you gain weight – fat weight, not lean muscle weight that makes you look trimmer and fitter. Tenets of Intuitive Eating • No Read more...
5 Ways Fast Food Places Trick You to Overeat or Stuff Your Kids
There are five tricks up the sleeves of fast food companies that get people always coming back for generous helpings of junk food that’s high in calories and bad for the heart. Read more...
Which Causes More Disease: Poor Diet or Lack of Exercise ?
As bad as a lack of exercise is to the body, the million-dollar question is if a bad diet causes more disease and illness than being lazy and sedentary. Read more…
Two Portion Control Tricks that Don’t Work for Eating Less
Whom are we trying to kid with the so-called portion control tricks that could work only on the most impressionable, easily-fooled mind? These two tricks are insulting to the intelligence of anyone wanting to cut Read more...
Egg Yolks vs. Egg Whites Every Day for Heart Health
The egg is probably the most controversial food, having once been vilified as harmful to the heart if eaten with the yolk, especially every day. But here’s something about a whole egg that you’ve probably Read more...
Egg Yolks vs. Cereal for a Heart Healthy Breakfast: Which Wins?
Does the “incredible edible egg” beat out cereal as “part of this nutritious breakfast” when it comes to what’s healthy for your heart? After all, cereal has been relentlessly marketed as a healthy breakfast food Read more...
Negative Side Effects of Lemon Water: Hype or Truth?
It’s beginning to sound a lot more like myth rather than truth that lots of lemon in your water can actually cause negative side effects. One online article on lemon water actually suggests that you Read more...
Why You Should Drink Lemonade in the Winter
If you avoid lemonade only in wintertime, ask yourself what the logic for this is. Advertising? You drink other cold juices in winter, right? Why not lemonade? Read more…
Is Fast Food Breakfast Healthier than Skipping Breakfast?
Is it healthier for your body to skip breakfast than eat a fast food breakfast? And I mean something like a sausage McMuffin or McGriddle, or sausage & pancakes, etc. Read Read more...
Teen Trying to Lose Weight? High Protein Breakfast Will Help
If you’re a teen struggling to lose weight or even if this is your first diet, a high protein breakfast will help you shed the pounds. Read more…
Woman Over 50? 10 Weight Loss & Nutrition Tips
Being over 50 is simply a new door opening for women, and life can be just beginning if you know these 10 great fat loss and nutrition tips–that will even improve the quality of your Read more...
Exercising Before You Eat Breakfast: Pros and Cons
So should you exercise before breakfast, or exercise after breakfast? What a conundrum for many health-conscious people including those who are struggling to lose weight. I’m a certified personal trainer and you should not exercise Read more...
10 Harmful and Common Food Ingredients to Avoid
If you spot any of these 10 toxins in the ingredients list of a food, put the merchandise back on the shelf. Keep looking, and you’ll be sure to find another product that will suit Read more...
Easy Way to Tell if Food Has Trans Fats; Don’t Trust Labels
Don’t always believe nutrition labels that say “Zero Trans Fat,” but there is an easy way to tell if food contains this toxic substance. Read more…
Muscles Hurt? What to Eat to Treat
Eat these foods for hurting muscles after exercise or just bending over. Read more…