You may have heard that two of lifes simple pleasures, wine and chocolate, are good for your heart.
In fact a recent study found that healthy women can cut their risk of heart disease by as much as 53 percent by enjoying the pair.
But, there is a caveat. Not just any wine but it is [...]
Dieting without Salad-sounds like a misnomer. But really, just because we all think diet and salads does that mean we have to eat salad to lose weight?
Absolutely not, that is ridiculous! Salad is not the “only” food you can eat and still lose weight! There are many low and lower calorie [...]
There is no getting around it- If you eat more calories than you burn you will gain weight. I don’t know how those really skinny people who eat and eat burn so many calories (there really are people like that, aren’t there-or are they just a myth? claiming they eat when they really [...]
There are 2 main causes of high blood cholesterol levels- diet and genetics. Genetics is pretty much set at birth. You really can’t decide to exchange your parents for a different set with lower cholesterol! But you can control your diet. A diet high in saturated fat is the main cause [...]
Go to any health food store (or almost any store for that matter!) and you will see shelves upon shelves of “dieting” aids– Fat burners, diet pills and more. But do these products really help you lose weight? And how do they affect your health?
Most of us remember the Phen-fen fiasco. [...]
By: Dianne Villano, CPFI
Considering the Bulging Waist Lines of 66% of The Population it is obvious that sticking to a healthy eating plan is a challenge for many people . If your are having problems sticking with that resolution that you set in January, here are some simple tips to help you start to create [...]
In the matter of should we approach a low carb diet or not the opinions are divided. One claim in favor of low carb diets is that humans did not evolve to eat modern food based on grains, starches, or refined sugar. This type of alimentation determine the body to produce excess amounts of the [...]
Health food can have many different meanings depending on the individual you speak with. Health food can be strictly fruits and vegetables without meat in a diet, the absence of any complex carbohydrates from a diet to eliminating all sugars from a diet. Health food isn’t really all that complicated to define in reality. Health [...]
