Shaking the Salt Habit At Home • Eliminate the salt shaker. • Don’t salt before you taste. • Break the habit of automatically reaching for the salt shaker. Use less salt in cooking • In most recipes salt can be reduced or, in many cases, omitted without compromising the flavor. • Use more herbs and spices, particularly onion and garlic [...]
How to Lose Weight – The Basics of Weight Loss Despite the way it feels, losing weight isn’t a mysterious process. It’s a simple matter of burning more calories than you eat. But, if it were really that simple, none of us would have a weight problem, would we? Weight loss can be such [...]
Cardio Exercise for Weight Loss If your goal is permanent fat loss, you need to burn enough calories to make a significant impact. Here’s why: In order to lose a pound in one week, you need to create a 3,500-calorie deficit; in other words, you need to burn off 3,500 more calories than you [...]
Hit a weight loss plateau? It’s hard to fathom that for weeks your weight loss program was taking the pounds off. Then, suddenly, the scales won’t budge another ounce. Take heart. A weight loss plateau is normal. No matter how diligent you are in following your good health regimen, from time to time you’ll fall [...]
Lose Weight a Little at a Time Do you feel overwhelmed by looking at the big picture? Studies show that small changes in your weight are good for your overall health. Anyone who has a large amount of weight to lose knows how frustrating it can be to step on the scale day after day [...]
Healthy Nuts and Your Diet Nuts used to get a bad reputation for being “too fattening”. However, now we know that that the fats contained in nuts and seeds are actually healthy fats called unsaturated fats — as well as other healthy nutrients — that can help keep your heart healthy and your cholesterol [...]
