Research and clinical practice has demonstrated that co-occurring disorders (addictions and mental health issues occurring together) are the rule, not the exception. This leaves many people who were trained as psychologists, mental health counselors and marriage and family therapists at a great disadvantage, both clinically and professionally. They are at a clinical disadvantage, because addictions counseling requires a very different counseling approach than most counselors …
Burgers, Fries, Tacos and Nachos
Students have many problems they need to face once they are off on their own. Eating right is one of those problems.
Weight Loss Surgery: What Are The Options?
To understand how surgical procedures aid the grossly overweight person to reduce their body fat, it helps to first understand the digestive process that is responsible for handling the food we take in.
Once food is chewed and swallowed, its on its way through the digestive tract, where enzymes and digestive juices will break it down and allow our systems to absorb the nutrients and calories. In the stomach, which can hold up to three pints of material, the breakdown cont…
What Is A Balanced Diet?
A good diet is important for good health. A healthy and varied diet can help to maintain a healthy body weight, enhance general wellbeing and reduce the risk of a number of diseases including heart disease, stroke, cancer, diabetes and osteoporosis.
A healthy diet consist of four main categories of foods – of course there are some other minor groups. But these four main food groups will provide a healthy diet the bulk of its nutrition. They are: vegetables and fruits, grain …
How To Avoid Common Diet Scams
As our country gains weight at an alarming rate, we are spending more each year on products that promise us easy, effortless weight loss. Each year in the United States, an estimated 35 billion dollars is spent each year on weight loss products. The problem is that in spite of headlines that feed our hopes that a new, secret, better weight loss formula has been discovered, the truth is there are no easy solutions to losing weight.
Simply put, weight loss is a combinatio…
10 Real Life Diet Tips
Are you tired of diet tips handed out by someone with apparently unlimited income and time? For some of us, it may just not be practical to spend half of our Sunday preparing carefully portioned meals for the rest of the week, or financially feasible to buy all our meals prepackaged in just the right portions. And there are those of us who cringe at the thought of weighing food to achieve ‘optimal portion sizes’. Here are ten real life diet tips for the rest of us.
1. Eat…
What You Need To Know About Vegetarianism
Living healthy requires maintaining a healthy diet. No diet may be healthier than meals dominated by fresh, all-natural vegetables and fruits.
Lately, more and more people have shifted to vegetarian meals because scientific research demonstrated the adverse effects of animal meat.
Nutritionists explain that the high amount of animal fat present in meat, dairy, and other animal products may be probable factors leading to the onset of diabetes mellitus, obesity, colorecta…
The Importance of Healthy Nutritional Eating
Have you ever heard the saying you are what you eat? Poor eating habits provides little nutritional value, so eat poor feel poor. Here a a few tips to providing your body a healthier way of life
Just Say No: Healthy Eating and Peer Pressure
Previously we discussed the thoughts of developing a better, healthier life style by changing your eating habits. We also looked at a few ways to assist you in this.
A Nutritious Diet while Traveling
Once you have made the firm decision to change your eating habits, you will find many little tests along the way. Places we visit in the form of travel, Restaurants, Parties, friends places, work situations and also our biggest enemy, Time. These situations can present challenges to our resolve in maintaining good Nutrition in our diet and while we have covered a few points in our previous articles, we will now look at what I consider a major test, Travel!
Beans could be the answer to your diet nightmares
So youre a healthy eating convert, and you want to start making sure all your meals are perfectly balanced
Beginners Guide To Healthy Nutritional Eating
In todays fast paced world where we have no time to the little things, often they get put aside so as to get seemingly the more important things done.