Drinking water and weight loss just seems to be one of those things that always get lumped together, although a lot of diets don’t really explain why you should drink more water to lose weight. They just tell you to do it. While water has all kinds of health benefits, and can certainly be part…
NutriBullet and Nutri Ninja have been battling it out for the title of the best juicer on the market. In this post we will be comparing these two juicer families head-to-head, and by the end of this post we will have a winner. Or will we? If you are looking for a top-rated bullet blender,…
First, it’s important to understand that to be successful at hitting your fat loss and overall fitness goals, you have to stop thinking about “a diet” as something you do before your vacation to the Caribbean. Your “diet” is a combination of your choices in food and your lifestyle, not something you do for a…
In the drug store, the pills come in many types: Fish oil, krill oil, and general omega-3 supplements. While there are many names and types of omega-3 supplements, many are often left wondering if these purchases are right for them. Omega-3 risks? Several years ago, an article in the Journal of the American Medical Association…
Believe it or not, completely flawless skin is nowhere near as difficult to pull off as a lot of people are led to believe it to be. In fact, you might not even have to use any weirdo (or expensive) skin care products to get the kind of blemish free and crystal clear complexion you’re…
It’s 9 pm and you’re getting the those evening snack cravings. You feel like breaking out the nacho chips, but your fitness sense tell you to find something healthy that will carry you through the rest of the evening. What do you do? You reach for the cottage cheese. There’s a good reason that the…
Given the choice between eating no oatmeal, and eating instant oatmeal, I would say the instant oats are still a good breakfast choice (with some caveats.) Maybe not ideal, but eating healthy is a matter of degrees. The reason oatmeal consistently makes my top 10 list of clean eating foods is two fold: It’s high…
Fiber is one of those dietary needs that always seems to be the last on the list. Part of the problem is that it’s just darned difficult to eat the amount of fiber you need every day. The typical diet has a person taking in about 10 grams of fiber a day. The USDA recommendation…
Lets start with saying that – Fast Weight Loss Is An Illusion I’m not naive enough to believe that there aren’t crash diet techniques (which are very popular among anorexics, by the way) or pills out there that could cause you to drop another five pounds of scale weight in the next day or two….
If looking for a simple diet that can be used to shed the last pesky 20 pounds or so then perhaps you may be looking into the banana diet. The banana diet is a recent phenomenon in Japan and has been making the rounds of their social networking sites, diet sights and has even generated…