How to Survive Mealtime Battles With Your Toddler
What your toddler doesn’t know could help him, so try making his favorite foods with a hidden nutritious twist.
Work Out Hard? Here Are 3 Reasons Why You Need More Probiotics in Your Diet
Time to add yogurt to the shopping cart? Yogurt is a good source of gut-friendly probiotics that may be particularly beneficial if you’re athletic or do challenging workouts. Here are three reasons why probiotics have health benefits if you work out.
Can Supersets Help You Get Fitter?
Are you looking for a way to add variety to your strength-training routine and burn more calories at the same time? Add some supersets. Discover the benefits of supersets and their limitations.
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Eleven Important Reasons Why You Need More Flavonoids in Your Diet
Flavonoids are plant pigments, and it is thought that there are more than six thousand different kinds. Read on to discover eleven fascinating and significant reasons why a higher intake of flavonoids could improve and extend your life.
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Leptin Resistance and the Obesity Epidemic
Obesity is now considered a disease by the World Health Organization and it is rampant in our society. And there is a distinct correlation between the obesity epidemic and human hormonal activity. Leptin is an important hormone that sends a signal to your brain telling you when you are full. Leptin and leptin resistance also determines how you store fat and determines when you should burn the excess.
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Brief Exercise: Can You Get Benefits From Exercise Sessions as Short as a Minute?
Brief exercise sessions as short as 10 minutes have health benefits, but what about even shorter ones. Say one minute? Surprisingly, brief bursts of activity known as “incidental physical activity” has benefits too.
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4 Ways to Eat Carbs Without Gaining Weight
In the era of the Atkins and Dukan diets, some people are afraid of carbs. You shouldn’t be. Carbs are an important part of a healthy diet as long as you know how and when to eat them. Here are four tips for getting your carbs the right way.
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Eleven Fascinating Health Benefits of Walnuts
Walnuts are encased in a hard shell that can be broken by a nutcracker, and the edible kernels are well liked for their appealing and distinctive flavor. As it turns out, walnuts are also extremely good for your health in a range of surprising and important ways. Read on to discover the eleven most significant reasons why adding more walnuts to your diet will improve and extend your life.
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Healthy Potato “Pig”Skins
A healthy, tasty, and gluten-free bite for football game night!
Getting My Life Back!!!! by Missy Tompkins
I have been dieting on and off for many years. I joined gym after gym, bought product after product with no results. But this past November, my life changed. I stressed to my husband how important losing weight and getting back to “me” was. I was starting to have health problems and I just was…
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The Right Way to Approach Low-Carb Dieting
Many people think low-carb dieting is all bacon cheeseburgers minus the bun, but low-carb is not necessarily high-protein. For low-carb diets to work without compromising health, it’s important to understand the science behind it.
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What Your Eyes Can Say About Your Health
Oftentimes, the symptoms of some debilitating systemic diseases don’t manifest until the disease is well under way. However, researchers are finding that these same diseases often leave preliminary clues to their presence in the eyes.