If you find yourself lacking energy, getting sick a lot or just not feeling like yourself, it could be the result of poor nutrition. Even if you feel like you are eating a healthy diet and exercising often, nutrition could be the cause of your lack of health. Other factors, such as eating a vegetarian diet, going through menopause, hormone imbalances, old age or an eating disorder, could also be to blame.
Every year around this time, people take a break from their holiday shopping and start thinking about the new year ahead. They make New Year’s resolutions and plan to stick to them no matter what. Some fail, while others do a very good job at sticking to their resolutions whatever they may be. While many of these resolutions include losing weight, saving money or becoming a better person, the number one New Year’s resolution is to eat healthier. This is a challenging one because our brains are programmed to like the foods we are eating now and trying to drastically change our eating habits can be difficult for many.
The holidays are officially here and for anyone dieting, trying to lose weight or just trying to maintain their shape, this is quite possibly the worst time of the year. The holiday parties, the family dinners and the holiday sweets that seem to be everywhere we look can lead to overeating and a total lack of dieting common sense.
With the temperatures dropping and the autumn colours creating a beautiful canvas of natural art, many of us are thinking of the much colder weather that is still to come and with those thoughts are warm, hearty meals and foods that can help us fight off the common cold or any other virus that we might encounter throughout our day. If this sounds familiar, keep reading as we are going to share some simple foods that will prepare your body for the cold, and the cold and flu, season.
We have all seen those “Eat This, Not That” books at the bookstore or online and have always wondered just what it is they have us eating instead of that delicious double cheeseburger with extra chips. For many of us, the substitutions either weren’t tempting enough, or they just weren’t feasible. We need easy. We like easy and we can adhere to those things in our life that are easy so if we can find a healthy substitute for the junk food that we eat that is easy and convenient, we are more than likely to give it a try.
For those of you who are always looking for the latest product to apply to your skin, or beauty regimen that involves a multi-step process which could take up hours of your day, keep reading as we are going to show you the importance of good nutrition and how it can give you perfect skin naturally, without any skin creams or beauty treatments.
Are you trying to lose weight and not seeing the results you should be? Do you work out at the gym, eat a healthy diet and avoid sugary sweets to look your best but the weight doesn’t seem to be melting off as fast as you would like? You could be doing everything right in the gym and eating a balanced diet and still struggle to lose weight and not understand why.
While it could be blamed on your genes, it is really the way your body metabolises the food you eat. A healthy diet or not, eating the wrong foods will not result in effective weight loss. But there is hope and it comes in the foods that you are eating, or rather, aren’t eating enough of.
Some foods are more weight loss friendly than others and it may surprise you to learn what they are. Let’s take a look at some foods that you should be adding to your diet if you want to lose more weight.
There are 5 basic nutritional factors that you need every day to stay alive. The food we eat is the fuel that our body needs to live and if we eat foods that are not healthy for us, the result could be sluggishness, depression and sickness. Just eating healthy foods isn’t enough though, as our body needs a combination of healthy nutrients to function properly and at its optimum level. These nutrients are essential to our everyday health and we have decided to share them with you here so you can eat better, feel better and live better every day.
Research shows that more and more people are choosing vegetarian or vegan diets as a way of improving their overall health and becoming more aware of the food they put in their bodies. Some are even adding a vegetarian meal to their weekly menu as a way of cutting back on the amount of red meat they eat. Whatever your reason for choosing either a vegetarian or vegan diet, you should know the pros and cons that come along with it.
When you feel tired all of the time or you are overweight without any viable explanation as to why you just can’t seem to lose any weight, there is a good chance that your thyroid is not functioning well. Millions of people all over the world suffer from various thyroid-related problems, including hypothyroidism.
