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)

No matter how faithful you are when it comes to a regular exercise routine, life comes at you and, before you know it, it has been weeks since you last hit the gym.  As such, getting back on track can be a challenge, but it doesn’t have to keep you from getting back into the [...]

Just when you finally decide to lose some weight and go on the proverbial ‘diet’, up pops the issue as to whether the diet food choices are really healthy or not!  Who would have thought that, in order to drop some pounds in order to get healthy, the diet you are about to embark on [...]

So far, in the first two installments (here) and (here), we have discovered some misconceptions as to what the cause of obesity and other related illnesses is.  We referred to a recent study conducted that gave credence to the possibility that the wide-spread addition of high fructose corn syrup into the food chain is not [...]

In part one, we discovered a correlation between the consumption of fructose found within many food products and weight gain.  We revealed that the two entities that influence both our being hungry and feeling full are compromised by the introduction of fructose into the digestive system.  As a result, we not only don’t feel full, [...]

There is a popular saying that goes something like: “You are what you eat”.  However, for the sake of this article, we are going to take a look at this from the perspective that it is more likely that you are what you do with what you eat. (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 [...]

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.  [...]

Without a doubt, the issue of nutrition is front and center today more than ever.  The wealth of information available, especially due to the Internet, has people much more aware of the impact that wrong eating habits have on the body.  Because so much of our food is processed, it is not conducive to a [...]

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 [...]

With billions of dollars being spent yearly on weight loss programs and products, it would seem that Americans should be winning the battle of the bulge.  However, just the opposite appears to be the case. Despite all the attention with the non-stop flow of information, coupled with numerous public policies aimed at reducing the amount [...]