Tag: healthy eating

Balancing Work and Health

Let’s face the truth-most of our waking lives are spent at work. We all need to support ourselves and our family. Unfortunately, our work environment paired with time constraints has a way of getting in the way of our health goals. Here are three tips to keep healthy and fit even though you may feel that your work leaves you with no time to do so.



Weight Loss Food Journal

There are many tools which can help you lose weight. Often exercise and trying to watch your diet is just not enough, most people need some help. Unfortunately, unless you are a celebrity you probably can’t afford a personal trainer or a meal delivery service.


3 Ways to Reduce Risk of Heart Disease

Heart disease is one of the leading causes of death worldwide. Good thing that there are a variety of different things that you can do to decrease your risk. Here are five such things.

1. Stop smoking. We have all heard time and time again that smoking is bad for you. But just how bad? When it comes to heart disease no amount of smoking is safe, even if you are only a “social smoker”. Even cigarettes with low nicotine levels or smokeless tobacco have been found to be just as dangerous as regular cigarettes.


5 Healthy Reasons to Enjoy Peppers

No matter what taste you enjoy-sweet, hot, or mild, you will be able to find a pepper that tastes great to you. Eating peppers regularly is a great way to stay healthy because of the many health benefits they offer.


5 Tips for Natural Weight Loss

With the increasing popularity of crash diets, it seems that a lot of times people are doing more harm than good to their bodies in the process of trying to lose weight. This in turn, can not only harm your body, but can actually cause you to gain weight in the long run. To make sure you lose weight the healthy way and keep it off, try a few of these weight loss tips.


You Need to Eat to Lose Weight

No need to starve yourself to lose weight.  In fact, you will have more difficulty losing weight and keeping it off by not eating.  The reason is that your body will go into survival mode and actually store fat if there is a lack of food.  As well, your body will start turning muscle protein into the energy it needs to feed your brain, nervous system and red blood cells.  The best way to lose weight is to tone your body and build muscle. According to Nancy Bennett, M.S., R.D., "Muscle tissue burns 70% of the fat in your body; so losing muscle sacrifices your ability to burn body fat."