Ok, let’s step back from the food and fitness issues for a moment and look at the big picture. How long do you expect to live? How long do you want to live? If there is a difference between those two answers, is there any way to make them coincide? Now, if you answered that …
Continue reading "Longevity escape velocity!"Most of the time when you order hot cocoa or hot chocolate in a restaurant, it is served with several teaspoons of sugar, making it an unhealthy high carb dessert rather than what it can be: a healthy treat! You can easily replace desserts and sugar cravings with low carb hot cocoa, not gain weight, …
Continue reading "How to Make Delicious and Healthy Low Carb Hot Cocoa"When you first start out on a new eating plan, especially a low carb diet, it’s very easy to get overwhelmed by too much information. The important thing here is to choose your battles. In other words, don’t worry about the “small battles” that nutrition experts will spend volumes debating- like coffee, protein bars, cheese, …
Continue reading "Hacking the Overwhelm in Dieting"I don’t think there’s an area in life where there’s more peer pressure than in eating- especially around the holidays! In the past, when I have gone home to visit the family, there’s this false notion that I don’t like anything. My family completely bought into the low fat/high carb craze of the 1980’s, and …
Continue reading "Peer pressure around the holidays"Pretty much anything I can write here, coming from a health and fitness site, will probably sound like preaching and taking the fun out of one of America’s favorite holidays! I’m not going to take a lot of time to berate people over eating poorly on Thanksgiving. But, here are a few quick tips to …
Continue reading "A Healthy Thanksgiving?"Lots of people who are trying to lose weight will skip breakfast in the attempt to avoid calories. In yet another counter-intuitive aspect of fitness and weight loss, skipping breakfast is actually more likely to lead to weight gain than weight loss. The reasons are: 1. By skipping breakfast you are ensuring that you will …
Continue reading "Why eating breakfast is important in staying fit (Part 1 of 2)"As a daily drinker of tea, I am a big proponent of it’s health benefits, which include a high amount of anti-oxidants. I was excited to come across the book, The Ultimate Tea Diet, the other day at the bookstore! Although I do love tea, I was pretty skeptical of what looked like another gimmicky-type …
Continue reading "The Ultimate Tea Diet- Hype or Miracle Weight Loss?"I was in Whole Foods today doing some work, and as I bought my cup of tea I noticed an interesting item near the checkout: Mo’s Bacon Bar, which is a piece of applewood smoked bacon wrapped in milk chocolate! The idea is that people like salty things mixed with sweet things, and what doesn’t …
Continue reading "Mo's Bacon Bar- Review"There are several great low carbohydrate diets out there that work, but what foods are best on these diets? I decided to make a low carb diet list to give some tasty options when it comes to proper eating, the low carb way! Here are 6 foods to consider when eating low carb: 1. Nuts. …
Continue reading "Low Carb Diet List"Even as the information about the benefits of eating dietary fat become more widespread, it still seems counter-intuitive to many people to eat fat to burn fat! It does seem like at the literal level, if you eat fat, you would naturally get fat. And the anti-fat mania that started in the 1980’s is still …
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