Prevention Magazine’s Ridiculously Healthy Foods
So if I am going to restrict what I eat, I want the food that goes in my body to be as healthy as possible, to stay healthy. Prevention Magazine has a list of “25 Ridiculously Healthy Foods”. Some were surprising. Here are a few: Eggs – tons of essential nutrients Greek Yogurt – twice [...]
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Biggestloserclub.com
If you think this might help, you can pay about $10 per month to join a website called, no surprise, biggestloserclub.com. The benefits are: Access your plan info at home, at the office or via mobile device. Get personalized goals based on your height and weight, so you won’t be left hungry. Speak with others [...]
Seven Foods To Stay Away From
Food experts have access to information that the rest of us peons don’t. So you have to interview them to pick their brains. Someone on the website called Shine did exactly that, and found that these experts won’t touch certain foods with very good reasons. The first example is canned tomatoes. Apparently tin cans are [...]
All Together Now, Don’t Bring It Home!
I have polled many of my friends. Everyone agrees with me. If fattening and delicious foods are lurking in the kitchen, no one can stay away from eating them. So don’t buy them, and ask the people who live with you to eat the bad stuff away from you, they can keep their cookies in [...]
Stay Fit AND Healthy
Once again, Parade Magazine talks about regular exercise and its many benefits, besides helping to keep you thinner. In the November 22, 2009 issue, the author, Michael O’Shea tells us that studies show that moderate physical exercise, which includes just walking in your neighborhood every day, helps you avoid those winter bugs. People who do [...]
Dieting For The Rest Of Your Life…
So I have been dieting now for about 12 weeks and I am getting near my goal. Of course Thanksgiving didn’t help. I have been trying to stay about 500 calories under what I need to stay even every day. Doing this should allow me to lose a pound per week, well most of the [...]
Don’t Eat Chips Out Of The Bag
Actually, don’t eat anything out of the container it came in. Look at the back of the package to see what a serving size is (which I usuually think is WAY too small to be a serving, but I digress) and how many calories are in this serving. Take a serving out of the container [...]
More Reasons To Exercise
An article in Parade magazine’s Get Fit Now section on November 29, 2009 talked about new research shows that “moderate physical exercise” can help you heal faster from illness and health issues like strokes. Exercise was also shown to improve the survival rate for people with chronic kidney disease and prostate cancer. I think the [...]
Scared Straight
A few months ago, Good Morning America did a segment on the effects of eating fatty foods does to your heart and blood. It was enough to scare you into eating healthy foods, until you forget about it and go back to clogging your arteries and making your heart work overtime. Here is the gist [...]