Search YouTube for Exercise Ideas
YouTube is a pretty amazing site. If you have never used it much before, I highly recommend you check it out. It does have a lot of funny videos on it, but by searching around you can easily find very helpful and educational videos. Check out these exercise videos that I just found while browsing [...]
Continue reading...McDonald’s is Now Free of Trans Fat
Sunday, May 25, 2008
McDonald’s just recently announced that they have switched completely from cooking oil containing trans-fat. They have been making this big switch over the last few months, but now all resturants in the United States and Canada have trans-fat free foods. This is good news, but still doesn’t mean its healthy to eat McDonald’s everyday :P Get [...]
Continue reading...Restaurant Diet Menus Lying to Us?
Sunday, May 25, 2008
An Independent study conducted recently found that the diet menus in restaurants actually contained many more calories and fat than what was actually advertised. They tested 23 meals from a number of restaurants such as Chili’s, Applebee’s, Macaroni Grill, and a few others. The study found that 78 percent exceeded the fat limit listed [...]
Continue reading...Weight Loss…Sunglasses?!
Sunday, May 25, 2008
A friend of mine just sent me this link to a Japanesee website that is selling these weight loss sunglasses. Apparently the glasses give everything a blue tint, which is supposed to be the least appatizing color. I believe red and yellow (McDonalds colors) are both very appatizing colors. These glasses are supposed to make food [...]
Continue reading...How to Build a Good Healthy Salad
Sunday, May 25, 2008
I just saw this news artcile over at CNN on how to make a good healthy salad and I though it was really interesting. Here the major tips from the article: Add fruits, nuts, and other healthy incredients. Use vinaigrette dressing. Onions can help fight diseases. Add protein such as fish, chicken, or cheese. Here is the full article: http://www.cnn.com/2008/HEALTH/diet.fitness/05/07/cl.salad/index.html
Continue reading...Stay in Shape by Playing a Video Game?
Sunday, May 25, 2008
Nintendo recently released Wii Fit, a video game that lets you perform various exercieses and workouts while trakcing your progress. I heard about this game all over the news recently and I found it to be really interesting. Check out this video review of the game, it seems pretty cool! If you are interested in getting [...]
Continue reading...The Zone Diet
Saturday, May 24, 2008
The Zone diet is a diet popularized in books by biochemist Barry Sears. It advocates consuming calories from carbohydrates, protein and fat in a ratio of 40% / 30% / 30%. Some nutritional experts, including some of Sears’ former colleagues, have criticized his conclusions from the scientific evidence, contending that he has distorted or exaggerated [...]
Continue reading...Western Pattern Diet
Saturday, May 24, 2008
The Western pattern diet (also called Western dietary pattern or the meat-sweet diet) is a dietary habit chosen by many people in developed countries, and increasingly in developing countries, characterized by high intakes of red meat, sugary desserts, high fat, and refined grains. It also typically contains high-fat dairy products, high-sugar drinks, and eggs. The term [...]
Continue reading...Weigh Down Diet
Saturday, May 24, 2008
The Weigh Down Diet advises using spirituality to avoid overeating and has sold more than 1.2 million copies. Since that time she has written Rise Above and a devotional book called Exodus. Shamblin teaches that there are two very different needs in each person; a need for food and an emotional need. According to Ms. Shamblin, [...]
Continue reading...Very Low Calorie Diet (VLCD)
Saturday, May 24, 2008
Very low calorie diet (VLCD) is a diet with very or extremely low calorie consumption per day. It is defined medically as a diet of 800 calories per day or less. VLCDs are formulated, nutritionally complete, liquid meals containing 3350 kJ (800 kcal) or less per day. VLCDs also contain the recommended daily requirements for [...]
Continue reading...Vegan Diet
Saturday, May 24, 2008
Veganism is a philosophy and lifestyle that seeks to exclude the use of animals for food. Vegans endeavor not to use or consume animal products of any kind. The most common reasons for becoming a vegan are ethical commitment or moral convictions concerning animal rights, the environment, human health, and spiritual or religious concerns. Of [...]
Continue reading...The Subway Diet
Saturday, May 24, 2008
The Subway diet involves replacing two meals each day with subs from the Subway restaurant chain. It gained publicity during the 1990s as part of an advertising campaign by the chain. Dieters can choose from the “Eight Under Six” section, which contains subs with 6 grams of fat or less. Jared Fogle is credited with [...]
Continue reading...Stillman Diet
Saturday, May 24, 2008
The Stillman Diet was created by Irwin Maxwell Stillman, M.D. in 1967. It’s an early form of the high protein and low carbohydrate diets. It differs from low-carbohydrate diets such as the Atkins Plan in that it is also a low-fat diet. It’s an extreme ketogenic diet used for rapid weight loss. The diet includes lean beef, [...]
Continue reading...Sonoma Diet
Saturday, May 24, 2008
The Sonoma Diet was developed by Connie Guttersen and is a derivation of the Mediterranean diet. The diet plan consists managing portion sizes and eating approved foods centered around 10 items known as the “power foods”. According to the creator of the diet these foods were chosen for their nutritional value and intense flavors. The [...]
Continue reading...Slimming World Diet
Saturday, May 24, 2008
Slimming World is a British company which runs over 5,500 weight loss classes a week across the UK. Adults who are seven or more pounds overweight may join a local Slimming World class and pay a weekly fee to attend classes. In 2007 the cost on joining was £10 and the weekly charge £4.50. Slimming [...]
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Asides 
Nutrisystem is currently doing a promotion where if you sign up today you will get an entire 3 weeks of food! I was really surprised when I saw this because I have never seen them offer that much! The site doesn’t list when this promotion will end, so I wouldn’t bet on it being available for much longer. If you are planning on signing up with Nutrisystem, I HIGHLY suggest you do it soon, if not right now!Click here to check out the promotion.
Still not sure about the Nutrisystem program? Check out our review here.
Sunday, May 25, 2008
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