Fast Food Diet?
Is there such a thing as a fast food diet? If you believe the ad from Taco Bell, their new Fresco menu items are healthier and can help you lose weight while eating their food. However, right in the ad, the woman says something like, “This diet doesn’t work for most people, but it worked [...]
The 6 Worst Fast Food Burgers
These burgers should be banned from restaurants. Don’t eat them! This article suggests other foods you can eat at the fast food joints that serve these whoppers. http://health.yahoo.com/experts/eatthis/39713/6-worst-fast-food-burgers-and-what-you-should-eat-instead/
Does Food Affect Your Mood?
The short answer is yes. An article in the Boston Globe last December discusses the results of research done and published in the Archives Of Internal Medicine about the long term effects of the food you eat on your mood. One hundred and six overweight people in the study were divided into two groups and [...]
Exercise Makes You Smarter
You can find so many reasons to exercise. Scientists now have hard data on the changes in your brain when you exercise that shows your cognitive ability improves when you exercise. They can see immediate effects, and scientists think the research also points to long term effects if you exercise regularly. Here is the article: [...]
New Year’s Resolutions
Did you make a resolution to lose weight? In order to fulfill your resolution, you need to figure out the ONE thing that will make you stick to a diet, or the right diet to keep you on track to lose some weight. The most important thing is deciding that losing weight is not going [...]
Not All Foods Are Created Equal
I have read nutrition articles over the years that present a group of foods called superfoods or powerfoods because they pack so much health into them. I have printed these out from time to time so I can remember foods I want to eat more of. Here is one of these lists, I don’t remember [...]