If you are trying to lose weight, don’t skimp on your sleep. Not because you can “lose weight while you sleep” as many snake oil diet products may have you believe but because a lack of sleep can interfere with the concentrations of hormones that control appetite, causing you to eat more and disrupt […]

Check out the infomercials on TV this weekend and you will see a dozen or so pieces of equipment, DVD’s, diet plans, funky belts that you wear, balls, slides, gadgets, contraptions, you name it, all devoted to one body part-ABS.
Apparently the whole world wants sleek, firm, sculpted,6 pack abs-Awesome Abs. No other […]

The popularity of Yoga and Pilates has exploded in the past few years. Yoga and Pilates are both great for conditioning your body and improving flexibility and strength. Both Yoga and Pilates are performed with bare feet. But there are some big differences between the two.
Pilates was developed in […]

Tomorrow is April Fools Day. A perfect day to test your body fat. No really, I mean because it is the first day of month. If you are on any kind of weight loss, exercise, lose fat, gain muscle actually just any kind of fitness program it would do you well […]

You may have read or heard on the news this week that some researchers have developed what they are calling “healthy pork” by cloning. They mixed the DNA from the roundworm C. elegans and the DNA from pigs to produce pork with significant amounts of Omega-3 fatty acids, the healthy kind that is believed […]

The dreaded bathroom scale and weighing in can be one of the hardest parts of a weight-loss/fitness routine. No other piece of equipment can take you to the highest highs and the lowest lows all in the space of a few days or even a few hours. On Tuesday of this week, […]

Recently I have been reading a diet book. (Yeah, I admit, I read about fad diets just like the rest of America!) Its quite interesting but it should be should be classified with all of the other “Fad Diets” that are out there. I may be exaggerating some but the main things you […]

It seems that the “low-fat” diet trend is over. Rarely do we ever see a new fad diet these days that stresses low-fat. The reason why is we got fatter and fatter and we discovered it didn’t work. Remember the early 90’s when Susan Powter was ranting on TV about how “fat […]