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August 18, 2009

• 4 Foods That Help Lower Cholesterol

  There are many foods available that help reduce your cholesterol level and ensure a healthy heart. Read food labels before you purchase any products to make sure you’re consuming the following nutrients:
  1. High fiber products - Many studies have found that high fiber products can significantly decrease the LDL (bad cholesterol) cholesterol level. Oats, beans, barley, [...]

• How to Maintain Healthy Cholesterol Levels

  It is very important to maintain your HDL cholesterol levels, also known as “good cholesterol,” to prevent heart disease and heart attack. There are few guidelines to maintain healthy cholesterol levels:
  • Exercise regularly - Getting regular exercise actually helps raise HDL cholesterol level while lowering total LDL (bad) cholesterol. Exercise has other benefits such as weight [...]

May 26, 2009

• Emotional and Addictive Eating

  Many of us are emotional eaters and don’t even know it—but knowing it is half the battle, as controlling emotional eating is the key for many women dieters to finally dropping the weight they wanted.  For those who don’t know, if you eat in response to your feelings, especially when you are not hungry, you [...]

May 25, 2009

• Turmeric Extract Fights Fat Growth

  Could you imagine a common spice that is actually proven to help you lose weight?  Well, it may not be so far off for us wanting to lose a bit of excess fat!  A recent study has shown that curcumin, the major polyphenol found in turmeric, seems to reduce weight gain in mice and suppress [...]

May 11, 2009

• Probiotics May Prevent Obesity

  For those of you who don’t know about them, Probiotics are bacteria that help maintain a healthy bacterial balance in the GI tract by reducing the growth of harmful bacteria, and are part of the normal digestive system.  Researchers have for many years been studying the potential of using probiotic supplementation to address a number [...]

April 23, 2009

• Chew Gum, Manage Your Weight

  Who doesn’t enjoy a nice piece of chewing gum?  Well, I may be jumping the gun a bit here but I do love a nice stick of sugarless cinnamon gum.  And now it turns out that chewing may be very good for weight control too!  Here’s the deal.  In a recent study sponsored by [...]

April 12, 2009

• High BCAAs Plus High Fat Diet Equals Insulin Resistance Risk

  We know that insulin resistance is a condition that is a precursor to diabetes, but we’re still filling in the pieces as to the blood chemistry of those obese people who actually develop insulin resistance.  One recent study out of Duke has found that these obese people have been found to hold onto proteins called [...]

April 10, 2009

• Lowcal Probiotic Veggie Juice

  I’m a huge fan of probiotic products so any new development in this area of the food industry is quite interesting to me.  And just last week, some food scientists in China came out with the news that they’re developing a low-calorie, low-sugar vegetable juice that’s custom-designed for the millions out there with diabetes and [...]

April 6, 2009

• What’s So Great About Olive Oil?

  There’s probably no one out there reading this blog right now who is not aware of the many benefits of the Mediterranean diet and its heart healthy basis—which is olive oil.  This “liquid gold” has long been hailed for its ability to increase the good HDL cholesterol in your blood, protecting you against heart diseases. [...]

March 31, 2009

• Essential Nutrients For Fat Loss

  I have some important news for you folks–all of the dieting in the world will never be maximized to your advantage if you’re not getting enough vitamins and minerals, which are essential to regulating how your body responds to protein, carbohydrates and fats—and key to losing fat. Here are a couple of key nutrients which [...]

March 26, 2009

• Simple Formula Stays True: Eat Less, Lose Weight

  The world of diets is downright confusing, isn’t it?  I myself have dabbled with Atkins (high fat, low carbohydrate), Dean Ornish (low fat, high carbohydrate), the acai berry diet, and even South Beach, but which one is truly best has always really been a coin toss, until now, according to one study in a recent [...]

March 20, 2009

• Calcium for Weight Loss

  A study recently published in the most recent issue of the British Journal of Nutrition has shown that boosting calcium consumption spurs weight loss (who needs those diet pills anyway?!), but only in people whose diets are deficient in the mineral. The 15-week weight loss program was conducted on obese women and the participants consumed [...]

March 16, 2009

• Looking North to the Nordic Diet

  We have all heard of the Mediterranean diet which is supported by scientific data showing that people living in countries bordering the Mediterranean have lower levels of cardiovascular disease, obesity and some types of cancer.  The diet is rich in large amounts of vegetables, nuts, bread and fish, making the Mediterranean diet very low in [...]

March 13, 2009

• Super L-Arginine

  Just to refresh your memory, amino acids are the building blocks of proteins and our bodies get most essential amino acids from the protein we ingest.  Arginine is one of those essential amino acids that is only essential on a conditional basis, meaning we need arginine at a certain age and only under certain circumstances.  [...]

March 9, 2009

• Swept Away by Agave

  Many mistakenly think that the agave is a kind of cactus but agaves are actually closely related to the lily and amaryllis families.  Though this post is about the use of agave as a sweetener, I think the other uses of agave are interesting too.  Way before the days of antibiotics, the Aztecs used to [...]

March 3, 2009

• Orthorexia Awareness

  This blog is all about healthy and effective diets and related subjects but it turns out there is an extreme form of everything, including the desire to be healthy.  It seems like everyone I know is increasingly aware of the importance of a healthier diet and exercise, though everyone implements these changes in their own [...]

February 28, 2009

• Stevia: The Sweet Tooth Savior

  For those of us with a major sweet tooth, like me, you’ll try any new sugar substitute that comes out on the market, but end up disappointed by the aftertaste, or even worse, suspicious about its contents and effect on your body.  But I have found true happiness in Stevia, especially now that the FDA [...]

February 25, 2009

• Fructose: The Link with Obesity

  Many of us have long been accustomed to drinking a big glass of OJ with breakfast or a sweetened beverage with our lunch and dinner. Turns out this may be much worse for you than just a few extra calories on your daily menu. Especially if you’re already obese. A recent study from the Monell [...]

February 16, 2009

• No Carb Pasta

  I’m a recovering pasta lover.  It’s such a taboo thing to be these days with the low carb epidemic but my pasta eating days ended long before, when I noticed that each time I chowed down on a big pasta dinner (my favorite was pasta primavera), I’d crash out about 30 minutes later into what [...]

February 12, 2009

• Chaotic Home Makes Moms Obese

  This post is not related specifically to a diet but a weight-related study which I found very pertinent to my readers in a few ways.  A recent study published in the Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved has reported that chaos and household instability increases the possibility that a mother will be [...]