Health Nutrition

Bette Dowdell I’ll let you in on a secret the Washington poobahs don’t want you to know: Congress caused the obesity epidemic. If there is, in fact, an epidemic. Poobahs tend toward overblown terms of speech, so let’s just say, if you’re fat, blame Congress. Truth be told, you probably had a hand in what [...]

Your weight and your health.  It is important to compare diet plans. You know I think we learn in burst instead of steady progress.  At least that is the way it seams with me.  I have been studying health now for awhile and early on I came to the realization that being overweight causes serious [...]

Yes, you can. If you’re not eating enough, your body will go into ‘famine’ mode and it will horde all the Calories it can and hold onto the fat since it thinks it’s going to starve. To achieve this, your body will slow down your basal metabolic rate (BMR) and begin to metabolise muscle protein. [...]

In order for our bodies to function properly and stay healthy, it is important that we follow a good nutritious diet. Foods are made up of 6 classes of nutrients. These nutrients are macronutrients (protein, carbohydrates, fats), micronutrients (vitamins and minerals) and water. If you neglect to have the right combination of these 6 items, [...]

It’s been a popular misconception for a long time now that ingesting fat will MAKE you fat.  Unfortunately, this is not true and anyone subscribing to this theory is doing themselves a huge disservice. Did you know that if you starve your body of fats, it will start to hang on to fat even harder, [...]

A new look at low calorie dieting. With out a doubt, low calorie dieting is and has been the number one way to lose weight and calorie shifting diets like the EveryOther Day Diet are the #1 way to do a low calorie diet. We can do this the hard way or the easy way. [...]