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 …
Weight Loss Success Results from Finding the Right Balance of Calories and Exercise
Weight loss can be achieved by changing your eating habits and doing more exercise each week; it is a case of just getting the right balance.
New Year – New Diet – New You?
Are you about to make yet another new years resolution, as you see out the old year, along with its broken promises and failed, good intentions?
Fresh with new-found conviction, after the gross excesses of the Christmas period and our usual failure to control ourselves, we arrive at the new years resolution, an annual triumph of hope over reality!
Hope, that this time you will have the single mindedness to succeed, where last time you failed. Im not suggesting for a…
Planning Meals For Your Slimming Programme
One of the most daunting things about starting a slimming programme is planning what you’re going to eat.
It doesn’t have to be as hard as it seems though. Most meals are simple to make, especially if they are using healthy, fresh ingredients. Forget boiling your vegetables to death and eat them raw, or lightly steam them if you want them to be hot. Don’t peel fruit that doesn’t need peeling, it saves time, and allows you to get the full benefit of the fibre content. Ther…
Exercise is the key to helping you lose weight
Many people make the mistake of thinking that the way to lose weight is to control what they eat if only you could avoid those damned chocolate cream cakes, everything would be alright in the world!
Get Into Shape With Hypnosis For Slimming Relax To Lose Weight!
Hypnosis for slimming sounds like a dichotomy to some people, because it subverses everything that everyone has propounded as the best way to shed weight. What if I were to tell you that you could lose those inches off your waist just by relaxing? Lose those extra kilos just by prompting your mind to increase the metabolism, and instructing it to curb binging and snacking? You might even be feeling exasperated at this suggestion; because you spent hundreds of pounds trying to…
Are the barriers of dieting psychological or physical?
On the last count the word diet produced in excess of 157 million web pages of diet plans, pills, potions and dieting tips from health institutions, diet companies, nutritional professionals and otherwise – from all over the world. And yet we are approaching the peak of an obesity epidemic which is causing untold mental misery and depression, aside from the ever increasing debilitating diseases being linked to those overweight or obese. With such an abundance of information available – how can this be?
Your Diet And Nutrition Are You An Emotional Eater?
Many people suffer from the same eating problems, but among those eating issues, there is on that stands out. Emotional eating. For most people, it is the leading cause of abnormal weight gain, as you end up compensating for your emotional distress by sitting down for a large snack. Once and a while this is fine, but do it too often and you will find it hard to lose any weight.
Is Your Diet Giving You One Big Headache?
Research shows that some headaches, primarily the severe migraine type, can be triggered by what we eat. Experts suggest keeping a headache diary. Look for patterns to see which foods or beverages consistently cause headaches. Once you’ve identified a potential trigger, cut it out of your diet and see if the result is fewer headaches.
Overweight? Have You Given Away Your Power?
Are you unhappily overweight? Do you despair of getting to the right size and shape for you? Is it because youve given away your power?
Do you let others decide on your portion size?
When you eat in a restaurant, buy a ready meal, buy chocolate or an ice cream, do you let the producer decide what is the amount you should eat by finishing whatever the portion size happens to be? Next time youre in a restaurant take back your power and decide for yourself when youve had …
Fad diets what next?
When youre trying to lose weight, there are bookshelves, websites and TV shows full of people trying to sell you a dream.
Dieting By Knowing Your Dairy Products!
This food group includes milk, cheese, yogurt and fromage frais. Calcium fortified soya alternatives to milk can also be included. This group does not include butter, eggs and cream as these fall into other food groups.
Try to eat 2-3 servings a day. A serving of milk is a 200ml glass, a serving of yogurt is a small pot (150g), a serving of cheese is 30g (matchbox size). Choose lower fat versions whenever you can, such as semi-skimmed milk, low fat yogurt and reduced fat c…