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[9 Feb 2010 | No Comment | ]

Only in the small “health nut” cir­cles has the idea of eat­ing a raw diet been main­stream. Lately, how­ever, it is gain­ing more wide-spread pop­u­lar­ity. An increas­ing num­ber of peo­ple are now pro­mot­ing the vari­ety of ben­e­fits from eat­ing raw food.
Advo­cates of a raw food diet believe it is the most log­i­cal diet for humans. After all, our hunt­ing and gath­er­ing ances­tors ate a large major­ity of their diet in raw form. Pro­po­nents believe raw food con­tains enzymes and nutri­tional con­tent lost in the process of cooking …

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[3 Feb 2010 | No Comment | ]

If you are won­der­ing “How many calo­ries should I eat to lose weight?”, the first thing you must get clear on is how many calo­ries your body needs to sus­tain your cur­rent weight. It is sur­pris­ing that most peo­ple do not have a faint idea how much they can eat with­out putting on pounds. And sec­ondly, you obvi­ously need to know how many calo­ries you are con­sum­ing in aver­age at the moment, and here again most peo­ple do not have a clue about their calo­rie intake.

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[24 Jan 2010 | No Comment | ]
Reshape With Resistance Bands: Triceps Extensions

There are many ben­e­fits to using resis­tance bands includ­ing the fact that they are flex­i­ble, inex­pen­sive and sim­ple to use, and can give you the same results you would get if you worked out in a gym or health club. There are many body parts that resis­tance bands are par­tic­u­larly effec­tive on and one of the most dif­fi­cult areas to tar­get are the tri­ceps. With resis­tance bands, you can tone and shape your tri­ceps with­out need­ing to use any com­pli­cated machines or exer­cise equipment

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[17 Jan 2010 | 32 Comments | ]
5 Keys to Reading Nutrition Labels

The listed serv­ings per con­tainer will tell you how many serv­ings are in the prod­uct. The serv­ing size lets you know how big a serv­ing is. Dis­re­gard­ing the listed serv­ing size is a sure fire way to dou­ble or even triple your caloric intake. For exam­ple, a 20 oz bot­tle of soda can have 2.5 serv­ings. If you drink the whole bot­tle then you have to mul­ti­ply the calo­ries, sugar and the other ingre­di­ents by 2.5.

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[24 Dec 2009 | No Comment | ]
Lowering your Blood Sugar Naturally!

Great Video from Livestrong.com on low­er­ing your blood sugar nat­u­rally! These items should be a part of any dia­bet­ics kitchen.
Low­er­ing blood sugar nat­u­rally involves sup­ple­ment­ing the diet with cin­na­mon, green tea, fenu­greek and magnesium-rich foods. Incor­po­rate foods into your daily diet that can help lower blood sugar with health advice from a cer­ti­fied dia­betes edu­ca­tor in this help­ful video on nutrition.