Diet Improvement And Your Heart
One of the main factors that affect your heart health is your diet. A diet based of processed foods, high in salt and preservatives can do harm to your heart. Improving your diet can benefit your heart health. You can choose to include foods that are more organic and will benefit your heart greatly. You […]
Supposedly “Good” Habits You’re Better Off Avoiding
Popular health fads can sometimes promote certain things that may not really be good for you. These fads can make you develop certain habits that you think will help you stay fit and healthy. There are some habits that work and there are some of the supposedly “good” ones that you are better off avoiding. […]
Health Benefits Of Eating Eggs
Eggs are considered as one of the more complete foods that humans eat. It provides the right nutrients that the body needs daily. Eating it on a regular basis is essential. But eggs have also gotten some bad reputation due to increasing cholesterol fears among many people today. But if you eat an egg a […]
No Hunger Diet
A common problem with fad diets is that they all leave you starving, thus putting you at risk of eating more food. Good Housekeeping collaborated with registered dietitian Delia Hammock to come up with a diet plan that would really keep you full. The result is the “No Hunger Diet,” an eating plan with meals […]
Does Just Eating Cereals Make You Lose Weight?
We know that eating cereals is healthy, but does eating a single bowl of cereal for every meal makes you lose weight? We see lots of cereals on grocery shelves, with some promising to help you get rid of the extra poundage, but truth of the matter is that not all cereals are nutritious. Some […]
Seafood Diet Linked to Bigger Brains
A team of scientists representing five countries have discovered the oldest evidence of how early humans feasted on aquatic animals, which they believe could have fueled the evolution of larger human brains.The researchers from Kenya, United States, United Kingdom, Australia, and South Africa discovered a 1.95 million-year-old site in northwestern Kenya in 2004, in which they were able to fully reconstruct the environment according to its perfectly preserved fossil remains. The team have excavat…
Mediterranean Diet May Keep Your Brain Healthy
A new research suggests that older people should adhere on taking a diet that is rich in fruits, vegetables, olive oil, legumes, fish, plus moderate amounts of wine. Not only this eating habit, often called the Mediterranean Diet, keeps the heart healthy, but also delay the mental decline as they age.”Those who adhered most closely to the Mediterranean diet performed as if they were two years younger,” according to researcher Christy Tangney, PhD, of Rush University Medical Center in Chicago. Dr…
The New Atkins Diet Book
The Atkins Diet has been one of the most successful and influential diets in the market. Since its introduction, many food companies even offer low-carb food products to cater to the followers of Atkins. The low-carbohydrate approach to dieting has also paved the way for many other diet books bearing the Atkins brand, as well as several other diet programs that attempt to duplicate the Atkins program.And with new research findings cropping out about the relation of restriction of carbohydrate…
The Volumetrics Eating Plan
Volumetrics is a diet plan developed by Dr. Barbara Rolls, a Professor of Nutrition and a Director of the Laboratory for the Study of Human Ingestive Behavior at Penn State University. The foundation of the Volumetrics Diet plan is satiety or the body’s signal that it is full. Volumetrics works on enhancing that feeling of fullness while eating fewer calories. The key concept of this diet plan is looking at foods’ energy density – or the number of calories contained in a specific amount of food….
The Zone Diet: The Good and Bad
The Zone diet is basically a low-carb, high-protein diet. It was originally proposed by Dr. Barry Sears in his book “Entering the Zone”. The diet follows the 30-30-40 pattern: 30% of the calories from protein, 30% fat, and 40% carbohydrate.Looking at the pattern, you can already see that the focus of the diet is balancing the correct ratio of carbs to fat to protein. Dr. Sears believes the consuming the proper amount of the three enables you to control your insulin production. Controlling your i…
