All Entries in the "DIET & NUTRITION" Category
Nutrient Density: Your Quick Guide To Healthy Food Choices
For optimum health, you should eat a varied diet and include nutrient dense foods.
Nutrient density is a ratio that compares how many nutrients are in a food versus how many calories that food provides.
The healthiest choices are food that give you a lot of nutrition when compared to their total [...]
Diet Is An Essential Part Of Muscle Building
In order to get the muscular body that you desire consideration should be given to your diet.
Examine your current eating habits and work out what needs to be changed, remove bad fats and carbohydrates increase your intake of fruit and vegetables and replace processed and takeaway food for healthy home cooked [...]
Healthy Food Choices For Children
Most parents today are concerned with providing a well balanced healthy diet for their children. With the skyrocketing rate of obese children across the world, this is a very real concern.
However, providing your children with healthy food choices does not have to be a battle.
There are many nutritious foods you can offer [...]
How To Lose That Belly Fat?
When you look into the mirror, you see many things that you like about your body.
Your arms are just the right length, legs are long and lean, and then you look at your mid section and ask yourself, “What went wrong?”
That stubborn belly fat that will not go away is staring [...]
Foods To Avoid If You Want To Stay In Shape
Staying in shape is not always easy. Many people will put on a few pounds without even knowing what they did wrong.
After all, making the wrong food choices can greatly impact the size and shape of your body, in a very short time.
While most people understand that eating smaller portions of healthy [...]
Want To Lose Weight? Don’t Drink Your Calories
If you are cutting back calories in an effort to lose weight and become healthier, carefully consider the number of calories you are drinking.
Recent research has confirmed that in the long run, limiting your intake of liquid calories can have a bigger impact on weight loss than limiting your food calories.
In fact, cutting out just [...]
Foods That Counteract Detox
Water, juice cleanses, herbal laxatives, probiotic supplements and a generally healthy lifestyle will go a long way towards detoxifying your body.
But despite your greatest efforts, many common foods can completely reverse your hardest efforts. Here they are.
White Sugar
White Refined Sugar has no nutritional value at all. Sugar will also adversely affect your [...]
Picking Your Juice Equipment
Unless you want to pay $6+ every day at the local juice bar, a home juicer is a fantastic investment.
Also, owning your own juicer is essential if you want complete control over how your fruits and vegetables are juiced.
And if you don’t have a local juice bar at all, you will [...]
TV Is Bad For Children’s Diets
Everyone knows that watching too much TV is bad for us and especially bad for children.
Many parents worry about the effects of things like violence shown on TV and the resulting impressions left on young minds.
Now a new report published in the highly respected International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical [...]
Indiana Tells Restaurants To Display Nutrition Facts
The Indiana state health committee has reached a consensus and has approved a bill, which will see eating establishments, be required to post relevant nutritional facts to give their customers the information they need to make healthy diet decisions.
A handful of the big chains in the state such as Subway already [...]
