Healthy Weight Loss Blog

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High Protein Diets

High Protein Diets – Good or Bad? Every cell in the body needs protein for growth repair. Protein also plays an essential role in digestion, immunity, and many other body functions.

My Journey To Healthy Weight Loss

My Journey To Healthy Weight Loss

How to Get Six Pack Abs

My personal review of Mike Geary's ebook "The Truth About Six Pack Abs".

Successful Weight Loss Program

Choose Safe and Successful Weight Loss Program

Tips for Eating Out

Tips for Eating Out - Restaurant Dining for the Health Conscious Eater

Learn What Portion Size Is

One of the challenges for those trying to maintain or lose weight is the ability to control portion size. Take a quiz to see if you are kidding yourself what reasonable amount of food is.

Why would you consider getting a colonic as a part of your detoxify program?

Colonic cleansing is absolutely vital for weight loss and good health. When the colon is cleansed people notice a dramatic flattening of the stomach. Most people lose five to twenty pounds of excess weight.

Fat Burning Recipes and Perfect Meals

Learn the secrets of dieting and taste the best fat burning recipes.

Information on Enzymes

Information on Enzymes: Enzymes are extremely important to the body. Without them vitamins, minerals and even hormones will not work effectively. Simply put, without enzymes life would not exist.

Simple Guidelines to Easy Exercise

There are two basic things you need to know when you are setting up an easy exercise program:

1) Aerobic Exercise 2) Strength Training

Effective Ab Exercise With Swiss Ball

Effective Ab Exercise With Swiss Ball

Yoga for Beginner

Yoga for Beginner - If you are new to yoga, this article will help you to understand yoga without getting intimidated by the details

Calories in Chicken

Chicken is a great favourite with most of us. But depending on its cooking style, the chicken you eat may vary from healthy to sinfully high in calories...

Fish Oil and Weight Loss

Fish Oil and Weight Loss - It is very important to have Omega 3 fats each day throughout your entire weight loss process

Food Calories List

Food calories list is handy tool if you have a daily caloric requirement that you want to meet, or you need to monitor your caloric intake.

Fruit Calorie Counter

Fruits are a favourite with many people, and with good reason. They’re tasty, easy to digest, a good source of energy, and packed with vitamins and minerals.

Bread Calorie Counter

Contrary to popular belief, bread is not especially fattening; a typical slice of white or whole wheat bread contains just 65-80 calories. Slathering bread with butter, margarine, or other fatty spreads does make it fattening, so a low-sugar jam or an all-fruit preserve is a more healthy spread.

Tips to Buy Hoodia Pills

One of weight loss pills that may be of benefit to the consumer, with little or no known side effects is Hoodia pills. Hoodia is a succulent plant marketed as a supplement for quick, natural weight loss. Its roots go back to the Kalahari desert where African tribesmen used it to suppress hunger on their long hunting treks.

Cellulite Be Gone

Cellulite is a recent addition to the English language. In fact, it is not a medical term at all. It's a term used to describe the way your body appears when adipose tissue forms lobular formations just under the surface of the skin. In plain English the "cottage cheese look" or dimpling that occurs primarily on your thighs, legs and buttocks is a type of fatty tissue.

What can you do from home to help your body get rid of cellulite?What is Cellulite?How to get rid of it?...

Guide to Antioxidants

Antioxidant supplements have become a popular buzzword. Depending who you listen to, these compounds are credited with everything from curing cancer to reversing the body clock.

Calcium and Weight Loss

Relationship Between Calcium and Weight Loss: Researchers have found that people who are overweight generally have a smaller amount of calcium in their diet than people of a healthy weight.

Body Detox and Weight Loss

Cleaning is absolutely vital for weight loss and good health. After cleansing people notice a dramatic flattening of the stomach. Most people lose five to twenty pounds of excess weight.

The truth about green tea for weight loss!

The truth about green tea for weight loss!

Emotional Eating - the Dangers and Solutions

Food is a source of nourishment and energy. Without food we would not be able to perform our daily activities. Our muscles would wither, our nervous system would fail. We all need food.

However, food also has another role in our lives - a role of comfort and entertainment. Culturally and instinctively we prepare and serve foods to comfort those who have experienced loss, to celebrate joy or to show friendship and love.

Body Mass Index

BMI (Body Mass Index) is a relationship between weight and height. For the vast majority of people, BMI will give a good measure of whether the weight is normal or needs to change. Some populations such as bodybuilders will have a higher BMI because of muscle mass ...

Craving Control Guide

Many people struggle with food craving control. We don't eat the perfect diet all the time and have our struggles with food, same as everyone else. But having an awareness of this fact and knowing a little bit about our health and food nutrition can help when it comes to making wise decisions.

All You Need to Know About a Water/Juice Fast

Many of us have heard of fasting in religious or spiritual connotations. People in ancient times fasted to clear their thinking and seek inspiration and enlightenment on important life issues and many who do fast report feeling more spiritual and farther removed from the physical reality. However, one should be armed with good info and a strong sense of purpose-mental attitude is half the battle.

Ideal Body Weight - What's your ideal weight?

When it comes to ideal body weight one answer won't work for everybody. Here is simple method to determine what ideal weight should be for woman and man considering different body frames.

Simple Guidelines to Lose Weight

For a diet plan to be successful it must fit within the boundaries of normal day-to-day habits and activities. It must allow for the consumption of familiar foods in familiar and traditional social settings. The exclusion of "taboo" foods or your favourite fast food restaurant is generally a set-up for eventual failure.

Drinking Water and Dieting

Why drinking water really is the key to weight loss? If you're stalled on a weight loss plateau despite sticking to your diet, the first thing to check is your water intake. Research suggests that most Americans unknowingly suffer from mild, chronic dehydration, and you could be one of them!

The Hoodia Gordonii Weight Loss Miracle or Misrepresented?

If you know anything about diets, you've head of hoodia. Even if you've never been interested in nutrition, you've probably seen it advertised as the next best thing in weight loss.

How Does Hypnosis Help You Lose Weight?

Hypnosis for weight loss is an excellent tool for eliminating bad habits and creating good ones. Before starting any weight loss program, it is very important to diagnose possible medical reasons for excess weight. Get a clean bill of health from your doctor. This usually comes as an "eat right and exercise more" statement. We sometimes find ourselves living to eat rather than eating to live. In our modern society, we have learned to eat for reasons other than hunger.

Running for Weight Loss and a Lifelong Health

I don't think you'll find too many fitness experts who don't feel running for weight loss is one of the best exercises you can do to live healthy and keep in shape. The criticism is the stress on the body. The knees and leg muscles do take a beating. But . . . there are plenty of runners in their 60's and 70's who have been running for years and continue to do so.

All About eDiets

eDiets is THE player in the world of online weight loss, boasting almost two million members. For a rookie diet program that was founded by David R. Humble in Florida 10 years ago, that is quite an accomplishment. The brand name has grown so strong in 10 years, many confuse it for generic online weight loss.

High Fibre Food

High fibre food is good for health. Fibre is portion of the plant that is not digested, absorbed, or use for energy. The main role of fibre is to keep the digestive system healthy.

Online Tools to Track Your Progress in the Zone

In order to easy track your progress in the Zone, the diet offers many tools such as Dr. Sears' books, web sites, software programs and Zone’s community. Before you decide to go on a diet, you can get a free Zone health profile from the Zone Diet official site.

Zone Diet Support System

The Zone Diet plan is for everyone! If you are seeking to achieve your ideal body weight, lose excess body fat, improve your health or simply live a longer and better life, then this diet is for you. It is ideal for people with diabetes, hypoglycaemia, high blood pressure, high cholesterol and those who suffer from heart disease.

The Zone Diet Food

The zone diet food philosophy is that if you understand how your body works with foods and hormones, you can apply that knowledge to become a new, thinner and healthier you. The main source of carbohydrates for the body should be fruits and vegetables ...

All About Zone Diet

The key for success in this diet is having the education and knowledge to understand how the foods you eat interact. The Zone is not intuitively obvious; rather, it is based on a combination of cutting-edge biotechnology and common sense. It attempts to focus on the types of foods your body can most easily digest to create a balance-building lifestyle approach to diet. Eat everything in moderation: enjoy lots of vegetables, fruits and have some protein in every meal.

The Best Diet Program

How to Choose the Best Diet Program