2 in 1- FLAT BELLY & ROUND BOOTY 30 min Workout (No Equipment)

Trans fats have been the talk of the nutrition world for some time now. There are two basic categories that trans fats fall under. GOOD trans fats help with muscle building, preventing cancer and losing weight. BAD trans fats are a leading cause of weight gain and can cause serious health issues like cancer, diabetes and heart disease.

White foods refers to processed grains like white flour and white rice that lose a lot of their nutrients when bleached. They are not good for you due to lower nutritional value and do not help you to lose weight. That being said, not all white foods are bad. Simply saying all of them should be avoided would not being doing your diet justice.

Everything in your kitchen is not what it appears to be. Did you know the supermarkets do not have your best interest in mind?

Your weight loss regimen becomes taxing when you need to curb craving for some really bad foods. Many of these foods are known to be unhealthy due to their ingredients. But there are some food traps that you may not recognize so easily to be bad. Nevertheless, they are more threatening to your diet plan. The situation worsens when you unknowingly munch more of such foods daily.

Understanding just what is a healthy diet plan obviously is a necessary first step to eating things we should, not only to remain healthy but to keep our weight where it should be. Unfortunately the battle doesn’t stop there. There are many times when foods we consume are not going to be procured from the local market, but from a restaurant. And even when we are choosing what we eat from the supermarket we are placing a lot of faith in where that food is sourced.

Do your kids come home from school and say they are “starving!” Mine do and I am always trying to come up with snack ideas that they will like, are at least somewhat healthy, will fill them up (but not to spoil dinner), and don’t always come out of a box.

In choosing the healthy foods that we always want in our diet, perhaps we underestimate just how important our sense of smell becomes a part of it. Of all of our senses smell might be our most primal, and it has a great deal of effect over emotions, moods, thoughts and memories.

Almost 80% of Americans do not receive the recommended daily servings of fruits and vegetables that would provide critical vitamins and minerals needed for a healthy diet. Four out of ten people take a daily multivitamin to ensure good health. With so many multivitamin formulas available, how do you choose what is best for you?

Okay, so let’s say you now get good nutrition, how exactly does it work? What’s the point to it all..?

The wonder plant called onion is not matched in its many benefits to man. With the scientific name Allium cepa, it has a number of cooking varieties. Known to every cook to induce tears this plant – originally grown in Egypt and the Middle-East – is unknown in the wild. The herb is speculated by botanist to have been cultivated for at least 7,000 years. It comes in different varieties within the species varying in color, size, and taste – and is now grown all over the world – and the characteristic flavor and smell is derived from the sulphur compound in the bulb. Onion matures and is usually harvested at the end of the first year. Although recent studies have shown that adequate concentrations of bio-active compounds are in the young stem, the medicinal compounds reside in the bulb of the plant. Dried bulbs can be crushed into a powder for herbal medicine and eating it raw is of great value too.

If you are going on a diet, you need to know that most people don’t know the challenges that come with diets and therefore it fails after some time – even as soon as they start. According to Howard Flaks, M. D., chairman of the American Society of Bariatric Physicians (doctors who specialize in treating obesity), “The main reason a lot of diets fail is because they’re not matched properly with an individual’s unique requirements.” The need to doctor a plan that adjusts to your health concerns, and to your personal needs, can help you to stay on track.

“We have turned doctors into gods and worship their deity by offering up our bodies and our souls – not to mention our worldly goods. And yet paradoxically, they are the most vulnerable of human beings. And because they are painfully aware that they cannot live up to our expectations, their anguish is unquantifiably intense. They have aptly been called ‘wounded healers.’ ” – Eric Segal