Top 5 tips for healthy grocery shopping

Choose fresh foods, use a list, and read food labels. 1. Buy food that ‘goes bad’. Buy food that has an expiration date or ‘goes bad’ at some point in the near future. These items are generally healthier than others. The longer the shelf life of a product, the more chemicals and preservatives it probably contains. The perimeter of the store generally contains fresher food with a shorter shelf life: fresh fruit and vegetables, lean meats,...

Try this foods to Fight Fat

Weight loss starts with shopping. Taking control of what you eat begins with taking control of what you buy. Every time you toss a low-calorie food into the cart, you’re taking responsibility for losing weight—even before you sit down to a meal. There’s a very simple formula for low-calorie eating: Stock up on low-calorie staples. These are the basic packaged, canned, and frozen ingredients that you’ll reach for to create tasty, healthful,...

Cutting carbs just 2 days a week can spur weight loss

By Linda Carroll Dieters who can’t stomach the idea of going hungry seven days a week just got good news: You might be able to drop more weight if you cut back on carbs just two days a week. British researchers found that women who essentially gave up carbs for two days and ate normally the rest of the time dropped about 9 pounds on average, as compared to the 5 pounds lost by women who cut back to around 1,500 calories every day, according...

The Rice Diet Solution

By Kathleen M. Zelman, MPH, RD, LD The Rice Diet Solution: What It Is The Rice Diet Solution is an extremely rigid approach to reverse disease and cause weight loss. The detailed food plan severely limits salt, sugar, fat, and processed foods and causes rapid weight loss. Dieters are promised fast weight loss of 20-30 pounds the first month, followed by 2.5-3.5 pounds per week in the later phases.  Add the recommended exercise and you can lose even more weight. The Rice Diet Solution is based on...

Healthy Drinks That You Should Drink

Staying hydrated can be great for your body. Drink enough of the right liquids and your mood will improve, your focus will sharpen, your heart will beat stronger, and you’ll be less likely to suffer from headaches and fatigue. All that, plus if you pick the right potions, you’ll receive beneficial nutrients, antioxidants and protein as a bonus. Water is the universal fluid which is essential for the body and does wonders for us. But there are...

IF YOU WANT TO LOSE WEIGHT, WAIT A FEW WEEKS

If I told a client she wasn’t supposed to lose any weight for the first two months of a weight-loss program, she’d probably go find another nutritionist. But that may be the secret to not only dropping a dress size but also keeping those pounds off for life. In a new study by Stanford scientists, more than 260 overweight to obese women were split into two groups: One immediately began a 20-week weight-loss plan that involved eating more...

Three Reasons Women Should Do Weight Training

Most women see weight training as something only men and bodybuilders do. But this is well and truly a myth. This myth is so ingrained among women that it's quite difficult to dispel it. Once people know that I workout with weights regularly, they look me and up and down expecting to find bulging muscles and a bulky structure. But when all they can see is a slim figure standing in front of them, they think I'm joking. Honestly! What's up...

The Ryan Reynolds workout

Ryan Reynolds shares the diet plan he used to slice his body fat to 3 percent. What if your boss told you to gain 20 pounds of muscle and lose a third of your body fat? Most of us would end up in the unemployment line, but Ryan Reynolds did as he was told to prepare for his role as a cut vampire killer in Blade: Trinity. Here are his tips for sculpting a six-pack--on a full stomach. Eat More "I attribute my results mostly to nutrition,"...

Get Fit in 60 Days or Die Trying

Hundreds of people search the internet every month looking for ways to get fit in 60 days. Many of these searchers believe that it is impossible and that it simply cannot be achieved. What if it was true? What if I was able to say that there was a way for you to get fit in 60 days using a program that is proven to work? What if I were to say to you that over 12 million people worldwide have tried this method and have seen fantastic results? Guess...

Simple Ways To Help You Lose Weight

Now offers so much variety of diets, it's hard to understand which of them will be useful for you. Understanding this, we offer you a few simple rules that you can select a good diet that will help you lose weight and achieve the goal. You can begin to apply these rules now! Vegetables Vegetables - this is the first thing you should pay attention to. Vegetables contain many vitamins and minerals that help your body to get the necessary...