Author: Annie Micheaux

When it comes down to it, most people are not drinking enough of an antioxidant rich drink– our health depends on it! Luckily, there is now a way to make your own nut milk in the form of a milk bag. A milk bag is like having your very own extra sleeve that you can…

The soup diet is one of the many diets in circulation accredited to either anonymous sources or sources that do not claim responsibility. While the soup diet is similar to the cabbage diet, the only difference appears to be that the soup of the soup diet contains no cabbage. In reality, the seven day meal…

Diet sodas carry the promise of youth. By giving up those sugary-laden drinks for a cup of aspartame and carbonated water, you’ll shed those pounds, get ripped and look sexy. Buy you should know that If dieting and losing weight are among your fitness goals, diet drinks are a sure-fire way to slow results. Diet…

Gluten is today’s boogeyman for millions of grain-lovers. Why is it such a problem these days and how can you steer clear of it?

The Leptin Diet is a relatively new addition to the dietary community, tracing origins back to as recently as 1994. While explaining how the Leptin Diet is alleged to work is simple enough, the actual process by which leptin is supposed to work is a bit more complex. Leptin is a hormone, which means that…

Why make time to eat breakfast? Because it makes good fitness sense. Research indicates that people who regularly eat breakfast may have less body fat and are less likely to overeat during the rest of the day. More importantly, when they lose weight, they tend to keep it off longer. Two studies in the Journal…

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…

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…