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Top Seven Healthy Snacks For Kids On The Go

Top Seven Healthy Snacks For Kids On The Go

Children love to play and move around. It is normal to see them running after each other and doing other activities that requires too much action.
As a parent, you have to make sure your kids stay strong and healthy especially when they are always on the go.
We all know that kids love [...]

Orthorexia – Is Eating Healthy A Disorder?

Orthorexia – Is Eating Healthy A Disorder?

We’ve heard of anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa among others, and now its Orthorexia nervosa that everyone is talking about.
This is the eating disorder characterized by excessive focus, even fixation on eating healthy foods which may lead to malnutrition and health problems related to nutritional deficiency.
This article tells the story about Kristie Rutzel who stopped eating [...]

Power Bars And Exercise - Wrong Combination

Power Bars And Exercise – Wrong Combination

It is well known that being healthy requires exercise and consumption of the right foods.
In order to look and feel good it is necessary to stick to both exercise and nutrition regimens that are appropriate for the body.
Surely, continuous but not excessive exercise is the foundation of any effective nutrition and [...]

Can Omega 3 Really Help You Lose Weight?

Can Omega 3 Really Help You Lose Weight?

All the claims by producers and marketers of fish oil about the wondrous effects of a component of their products, Omega 3 fatty acids is enough to make anyone think that it is snake oil rather than fish oil they’re talking about!
You have likely read repeated claims that this is the one [...]

Antioxidants For An Effective Exercise

Antioxidants For An Effective Exercise

Exercising has never been more popular than now. The trend that dictates healthy life is promoting exercising as one of the options for having it.
Expensive marketing campaigns are launched every day showing us how the perfect body should look like and giving us solutions to get to it.
Products and routines that promise [...]

Why Six Small Meals Rather Than 3 Big Ones?

Why Six Small Meals Rather Than 3 Big Ones?

By now is it is a well known fitness fact that six smaller, more frequent meals are better than three big meals during the day.
Earlier the accent was on eating during meals and not snacking in between; now however, nutritionists and fitness experts have come down heavily in favor of the six [...]

Three Reasons Not To Skip Your Breakfast

Three Reasons Not To Skip Your Breakfast

You have probably heard the old saw; breakfast like a king, lunch like a commoner and dine like a pauper. This one still holds true in that you must have a healthy breakfast every day, it is the one meal you should not be skipping.
It should be a healthy but hearty combination [...]

White Bread: The Danger Lurking In Your Kitchen

White Bread: The Danger Lurking In Your Kitchen

That one item that has long been a constant at our breakfast tables, has earned quite a bad rap in recent years.
Keep being told that white bread is bad for you, for your health; why exactly is this so? What is it about white bread that is so bad for you? There [...]

What Are Good And Bad Cholesterols?

What Are Good And Bad Cholesterols?

Cholesterol is naturally found in the body, but there are two different varieties of it and an improper diet can lead to the second, known as LDL which is bad for you can, in turn, lead to a high risk of heart disease and eventually even a fatal heart attack if you [...]

For Healthy Eating Take A Moment To Read The Label On The Can

For Healthy Eating Take A Moment To Read The Label On The Can

Most people have hectic lives and very little free time. This is why trying to work in a daily fitness regime can be hard enough without trying to figure out what the proper diet should be for the best results.
However, whether you like to hear it or not, 80% of what you [...]