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 [...]

A recent study done at Brigham Young University has revealed an interesting statistic: married people consistently experienced a lower blood pressure reading than singles.  Even among those who had a stronger support group of loved ones gaining the benefit of lower blood pressure, the married couples once again benefited the most. (Read full article here)

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, [...]

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 [...]

Even though the prevailing thought that parenting doesn’t come with an instruction manual is true, there are numerous self-help books on the market addressing the care and well-being of children in the home.  However, these are mostly mechanical in nature, from dealing with diaper rash to convincing teens of the merits of good dietary habits. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]