"You are what you eat" is a perfect saying because the nutrition habits you practice now have a huge effect on your overall health tomorrow. The right eating habits will help you lose weight, gain muscle and even reduce your risk of disease. 1. Skipping Meals. When you're trying to lose...
Is pizza healthy? Are hamburgers healthy? Are Oreos healthy? These are some of the most common nutrition questions around. The answer to the question, "Is [insert food here] healthy?" is more complicated than a simple yes or no. Typically, individual foods can't be classified as healthy or unhealthy by themselves....
After you finish reading the following five ways to lose weight, you might think to yourself, "That was way too obvious and I just wasted a few minutes of my life." The reason why these steps are so obvious is because losing weight isn't rocket science. Usually the simplest explanation...
1. Don't Need to Lose Weight/Already Skinny. While healthy eating can help you lose weight, it has plenty of other benefits too. Losing weight is a function of calorie intake. You can eat unhealthy junk food and lose weight just as you can eat healthy foods and gain weight. The...
1. Smaller Meals, Frequent Snacks. There's nothing wrong with eating breakfast, lunch and dinner but making those three meals smaller and filling the time between meals with snacks will help your body use the calories you eat more efficiently. When you eat a large meal, your body either has to...
What are the healthiest meats to eat? -Kiley Hi Kiley, Unfortunately, there is no real answer to a question like this. For the most part, it is not individual foods that are inherently healthy, it is the overall lifestyle, including diet and exercise, that can be considered healthy or not. Therefore, the...
I am a 4'11", adult female, and I've lately been eating roughly 1000 calories a day, sometimes a little over. It's not a crash diet, I've just cut out the junk food and am eating healthier foods. I've been getting a lot of mixed signals about this, as most people...
Hello! I am a 29 year old female. I'm in pretty good shape. I work out at least 3 times a week (moderate-high activity). Most lunches I bring to work consist of mainly fruit. For example: 1 apple, 1 pear, 1 orange, grapes, nuts, crackers and cheese. Is this lunch healthy...
Hi, I was at the grocery store and did a bit of price comparison between organic and regular produce. Why are organic and healthy foods so expensive? –Janice Hi Janice, That is an excellent question. First of all, we do have to differentiate between “organic” and “healthy”. Organic is a designation which...
1. Consume Less Calories. Americans eat way too much food. On average, we consume about 3,500 calories per day and most industrialized nations are close behind. All this food travels from a farm to your table and takes a huge amount of energy to produce, fertilize, harvest, slaughter and transport....
