If you or someone you know is considering taking up backpacking, getting the right gear is of utmost importance.  From making a backpacking checklist to buying proper backpacking camping gear, it is vital to ‘know before you go’ when it comes to backpacking. Because your backpacking equipment is the means by which you will be [...]

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)

Once the campfire has gone out and the hot days of summer are behind them, school-age children begin wishing that summer could go on forever.  Unfortunately, school beckons.  This being the case, apart from the hustle and bustle of preparing for that first day back at school comes another concern: what to prepare for their [...]

Shouting to us from the TV, radio, Internet, cable, satellite, magazines and billboards, everyone claims to have the answer to our health problems.  We are virtually inundated with information on how to eat better in order to stay healthy.  One minute butter is bad and margarine is good, the next minute it’s ‘stop; reverse that!’  [...]

As our society continues to struggle with skyrocketing weight issues, from simply being overweight to the morbidly obese and all the health-related impact that comes with it, what can we do?  With all the diet plans available today, you would think there would be no weight problems, right?  However, as it is with anything, when [...]

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.  [...]

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 [...]

Taking a cue from the title of a book written by Mike Huckabee “Quit Digging Your Grave With A Knife And Fork!”, the title of today’s article is all by itself a very good question.  Here in America, where for nearly all of us food is found in abundance, we find it not as disconcerting [...]

Just as the saying goes “you are what you eat,” new research could suggest that “where you eat” may have a lot to do with who you are as well. A comparative study has uncovered a direct connection between what type foods are easily accessible and the effect of that on the human body.  If [...]

Although it’s neither fair nor accurate to compare ourselves with the animal kingdom, it is worth noting the differences in eating habits between animals and humans to better understand how we as humans can become overweight. To begin with, think of how many animals are truly overweight.  Now be fair: elephants and hippos don’t count; [...]