One of the best ways to lose weight is to count calories.  However, is this something you can continue doing safely?  Obviously, the answer depends largely on the person, their body-type and personal weight loss goal. (Read full article here)

A current study performed by the University of California Los Angeles has discovered that the two most common forms of sugar, glucose and fructose, perform in radically different ways when introduced to pancreatic cancer cells in a laboratory setting. This most recent finding is increasingly challenging the prevailing position that sugar is sugar. (Read full [...]

One of the central focal points when embarking on any weight loss plan is calorie counting.  Along with regular exercise, the number of calories consumed will have a great impact on weight loss.  However, if the number of calories is reduced beyond a certain point, the potential of it doing more harm than good exists. [...]

The issue of weight loss is quite possibly the ‘third rail’ that needs to be addressed but not pointed out for fear of offending someone.   Especially in our looks are everything society, sensitivity to not having that Hollywood figure factors prominently in both men and women looking for ways to drop some pounds.  One of [...]

Without a doubt, everyone picks up a bad habit here and there.  As it is with most bad habits, we pick them up over a period of time.  And, because of this, we often don’t realize that it has become a bad habit until it begins to affect our life in a negative way.  Especially [...]

If you keep in mind that you didn’t put on the pounds overnight, you will better understand that it won’t come off overnight either.  No one has come up with a pill or shot that can take off the weight quickly.  In fact, short of surgery, the only way to get in shape is to [...]

Do you find yourself overweight and out of shape?  Have you made up your mind to lose those extra pounds and get back into shape once and for all?  In this image conscious world, many find themselves both carrying a little extra weight and being out of shape.  However, dropping the extra pounds and the [...]

One of the ways in which people try to lose weight is through a low carb diet plan.  Even though many refer to this as a fad diet, it is not.  However, as it should be with any diet plan, we need to go into a low carb diet plan with our eyes wide open.  [...]

When it comes to gaining proper nutrients for our diet today, many are beginning to take a look at supplements as one way to ensure we get all the vitamins necessary to lead a healthy life.  Even though this approach has met with some resistance within the medical science community, many see the taking of [...]

Among all of the so-called ‘fad diets‘ out there today, the low carb diet is one of them.  Even though varying forms of low carb diet plans have been around for hundreds of years, they have only recently become popular throughout the industrialized world, including the United States of America.  In the last few years [...]