Unripe bananas and takeout white rice both have it. Carbohydrates sound so innocent: mere starches, sugar and fiber that the body uses for energy. Yet health-conscious [...]
The one thing that’s so hard about exercise and weight loss is this: It’s hard to burn enough calories with exercise to make a serious dent in your weight. In [...]
Inflammation is your immune system’s reaction to irritation, injury, or infection. It’s a normal response (and actually a good thing), and it’s a natural [...]
You stick to your diet all day and eat healthy well-balanced meals. Then the evening comes and you find yourself making repeated trips to the refrigerator or pantry to eat [...]
The major minerals are the six dietary minerals your body needs in the largest amounts. They’re necessary for many processes in your body, especially fluid balance, [...]
Losing fat and getting fit can feel frustrating especially when you are expending the energy and not seeing results. Other factors could be at play here and it will be [...]
Eliminate: Cow’s Milk Cheese “Dairy is such a trigger for skin problems such as acne,” said Dr. Lipman. “All dairy, even if from grass-fed organic [...]
A research team led by scientists at the UNC School of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health has unearthed more evidence that casts doubt on the traditional [...]
A new study finds that more than 50 million “quite healthy” Americans have been mislabeled as obese or overweight thanks to an over-reliance on BMI as a measurement of [...]
Rice Cakes They may have been touted as the ultimate diet food during the low-fat/no-fat craze of the late 1980s and 1990s, but don’t be fooled. Rice cakes can have a [...]