Hello all! We have come into quite the number of members as of late - greetings and salutations!

I want to ask about food lifestyles :D. What do you eat (and why if you have a reason)?

I am a clean eater with a diet that's looking quite flexitarian as of late; mostly vegetarian but with hot wings lol. Being a college student with a meal plan and a ( Read more... )

I've always heard it's a bad idea to exercise on an empty stomach.  Not so, according to this month's Health!

The Single best Fat Burning Secret: Work out Before Breakfast!
It happens- you slack off on your usual healthy eating or overindulge on your spring vacation.  But that doesn't mean you're destined to gain weight, especially if you get moving ( Read more... )

( With those kinds of fears, it’s a wonder my “health-conscious” friend didn’t die of starvation: no protein, and no fat, and no carbs? What’s left? Fortunately, as author of Eat This, Not That!, I was able to calm her lunch plate panic, and explain that most of what we consider “bad for you” foods aren’t bad for you at all-they’re just innocent victims of well-intentioned misinformation.

A well-balanced diet, combined with some smart choices, is all you need to lose pounds and keep most of our greatest health worries at bay. But many food and nutrition “myths” persist, confusing our food choices and making weight-loss harder and eating less enjoyable. So relax, and start enjoying food again: Here are 15 food fallacies you can forget for good. )

Today's Deal of the Day on Groupon may interest some of you... it's half off 3 days of prepared meals or 7 dinners from Seattle Suttons Healthy Eating. The meals are made according to a 1200 calorie diet and are delivered to homes nationwide, ready to heat & eat (or just eat). You pay $34 for $69 value.

It's from the Detroit Groupon but the website ( Read more... )

Wait... isn't this the woman who said she'd been on Weight Watcher's since she was 9?! She says she changed her eating habits to include less fried food and more fresh veggies at a young age. Isn't that the message we want more people to get - make small changes over your whole life to stay healthy?  Is 9 too young to be thinking about your weight ( Read more... )

You can eat healthy and exercise, but if you're gassy or PMSing, bloat seems to add 5 pounds to your look.  Here are some foods to eat and avoid before a big day to minimize potential bloating.

• Avoid salt (frozen or canned foods, chips, processed meats and cheeses). Use sea-salt instead of regular salt because it contains less sodium.
• Drink water and ( Read more... )

A recent study presented to the American Chemical Society found that drinking 16 oz (2 cups) of water before each meal helped study subjects lose five more lbs than those subjects who did not drink water before meals.  Water might be the cheapest and easiest way to control portions and lose weight.  Some tips for increasing your water intake:

Add ( Read more... )

You may have heard that the weight loss drug Meridia was recently pulled from the market due to the prevalanece of stroke and heart attack in patients on the medication.  Meridia (available by prescription in the US) originally came out in 1997 and was found to increase weight loss by 5%.  Earlier this year, the FDA asked the makers of Meridia to ( Read more... )

School is definitely in session for a lot of us, also work and jobs and whatnot for the older crowd, so I think a post on how stress affects our immune system is needed! I decided to go with a "provide all the information you can" technique so you all can pick and choose what best can help you strengthen immunity and reduce stress :)

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In his 2009 book The End of Overeating, Dr. David Kessler posits that overeating is a habit that many of us have been conditioned to perform. Like Pavlov’s rats, once we’re conditioned to eat certain foods, it’s very hard to break free of that behavior - the behavior of eating certain foods is the addiction, as much as the food itself. Many times ( Read more... )