The Beyond Diet – A Review
The Beyond diet is a diet system created by Isabel De Los Rios that changes the balance of macros we eat to help lose weight.
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These articles provide advice on healthy eating for sports, weight loss and general wellbeing. Diet is vital to health, so we explain what a healthy diet is and how it affects your weight. We also have a growing selection of diet plans.
Health News – Fruit For Health But Not For Weight Loss!
It has been another interesting week in health. Fruit has been in the news twice, firstly because it can lead to weight gain, and secondly because eating fruit can reduce …
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12 Common Dieting Mistakes
Losing weight and maintaining that weight loss, while also remaining fit and building muscle is often more of an art than a science. Everyone is different, and so we all …
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A Beautiful Tool For Health and Fitness
The Glycemic Index was described by Dr. Atkins as “A Beautiful Tool“. It is used by diabetics to help manage blood sugar levels and is also a key reason why the …
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Some Healthy Facts About Dietary Fat
Dietary fat has a bad reputation. The human diet has contained rather a lot of fat for a long time. Lard, dripping and butter were once common place in kitchens, mothers would bake cookies, cakes, pies and flans on an almost daily basis for their families. Then the western world was suddenly gripped by rising reports of heart disease in the 1970’s and fat was blamed. But was that fair?
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8 foods worse than white bread
We know that eating white bread is bad, the sugar in the bread is digested quickly and literally goes straight to our hips! However, this week Shape Magazine have published Carbs …
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Every year we hear reports of people becoming ill from following extreme “diets”. In some rare cases the diets prove fatal. While many products are regulated and sometimes banned, ideas, …
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Recently there has been increased interest in “tea diets”. Sometimes referred to as Green Tea Diets, but more recently marketed as Wuyi Tea Diets, these so called “diets” use effective …
Does Green Tea Really Aid Weight Loss? Read MoreThe Red Meat Debate – Is It Safe?
Red meat has the potential to be very important in our diet. It is a rich source of protein, which is essential for athletic development (muscles) and also contains iron, …
The Red Meat Debate – Is It Safe? Read MoreDiet and Heart Health
Over the years much research has been carried out to examine the relationship between diet and heart disease. Many studies lead to the idea of “superfoods” to prevent heart disease …
Diet and Heart Health Read MoreThe Atkins Nutritional Approach
The Atkins Diet is often misunderstood. It is still a great way to lose weight and does not have to be an unhealthy diet.
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Sugar still remains as one of the most misunderstood part of our diet. On one hand it provides vital energy for healthy body function and fuels the brain, on the …
Sugar, Carbohydrates and Your Health Read MoreHow Super are Superfoods?
The media love reporting news of superfood discoveries, but is there really any such thing as a superfood? The fact is, often the foods are not all that super at all. Sensationalist reporting just makes them seem super.
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The HCG Weight Loss Diet Scam – The New Snake Oil?
The HCG diet is another diet that follows in a growing trend of diets weight loss designed to help manage blood sugar levels and appetite. HCG stands for Human Chorionic …
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Jon Benson is a personal fitness trainer. He developed a diet plan and a weight training system to help you lose weight and get strong. The two systems are complete …
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Not Another Forking Fad Diet!
It seems that the nation that gave us the first well structured diet plan for some time, the Dukan Diet, has now opted for a slightly more faddish diet craze. …
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The DASH Diet Plan
There have been various studies looking at different dieting methods in recent decades. One of the most important ones simply determined that all diets work equally well in the long-term …
The DASH Diet Plan Read MoreThe New Food Pyramid – USDA Reviews Its Healthy Eating Guidelines
Since 1992 the USDA has used the Food Pyramid to provide Americans with a guide to healthy eating. Now it is updating its message and using a new tool to help American to eat well and live healthier lives.
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Growing your own vegetable can be fun and also provide you with a healthy supply of vegetables and fruits. However, sometimes you get a glut and it is hard to know how to use it all before it goes off. Here are some healthy glut soup recipes that will also help you to lose weight.
Glut Recipes To Shrink Your Gut Read MoreHealthy Fruit Smoothie Recipes
Fruit smoothies are possibly the healthiest drinks you can have. Made with fresh fruit, they are high in vitamins and nutrients and easily digested. Here we share our favorite fruit smoothie recipes, including Triple Strawberry and the Banana, Kiwi and Pineapple. Zesty, vibrant and delicious these smoothies provide an excellent source of energy and vitamins.
Healthy Fruit Smoothie Recipes Read MoreHealth Benefits Of Eating More Broccoli
It turns out that the humble broccoli is not so humble after all. In fact, it could well be one of the most important and mist readily available “super foods”. Its secret ingredient is called sulforaphane which is thought to reduce damage at the cellular level.
Health Benefits Of Eating More Broccoli Read MoreThe Dukan Diet – The French Weight Loss Diet System
The Dukan Diet was developed around the same time as the Atkins Diet Revolution and follows a similar pattern – an intensive induction period of around 2 weeks called the Attack Phase, then the Cruise and Consolidation phases that are aimed at developing a healthy diet in the long term. Like any diet system the key is to follow the diet through each stage until the end, and then carry on eating healthily.
The Dukan Diet – The French Weight Loss Diet System Read MoreThe Tomato Diet
Tomatoes reduce hunger – see our tomato diet tips. A tomato diet is simple to implement. The key rule is to eat tomatoes with most of your meals, and also eat some tomato snacks. Tomatoes are very healthy and provide a few little secret ingredients that aid weight loss.
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Central Obesity, Diet and Metabolic Syndrome
Central obesity is the most dangerous type of fat accumulation. Here we discuss the various medical conditions that may result from long term obesity and also provide some solutions to help you deal with the problem. The advice comes from an article published in Functional Foods in Health and Disease in 2011 which looked at the role of the Mediterranean Diet and weight management.
Central Obesity, Diet and Metabolic Syndrome Read MoreHow Food Affects Mood, Health and Personality
A healthy diet provide more benefits than just a healthy and fit body. Mental health is also affected by diet which is why it is so important to maintain a healthy diet at all times. The food that we eat changes the way we feel and this can result in all manner of physical and behavioural issues.
How Food Affects Mood, Health and Personality Read MoreHow To Use Your Clean Bottle
The kind chaps at CleanBottle sent us a sample to test and we found it to do exactly what it says on the tin. It is easy to clean and that is really all there is to say about it. But that alone makes it one of the best plastic bottles on the market. Here we provide you with some more ideas on how to use your Clean Bottle.
How To Use Your Clean Bottle Read MoreHigh Protein Diets May Improve Cognitive and Muscle Function
High protein diets are a real controversy. For anyone looking to build a lot of muscle, protein is essential. Research has also shown that high protein diets such Atkins is …
High Protein Diets May Improve Cognitive and Muscle Function Read MoreThe Big Fat Truth About Low Fat Foods on the BBC
In February 2011 the BBC showed a documentary called The Big Fat Truth About Low Fat Foods which examined the diet food industry and looked at what goes into low fat foods, …
The Big Fat Truth About Low Fat Foods on the BBC Read MoreIndian Vegetarian Diet for Healthy Weight Control
Real Indian food is very healthy and often spicy, which both help with weight management. Also many curries purchased in Indian restaurants are not particular healthy due to high fat …
Indian Vegetarian Diet for Healthy Weight Control Read MoreThe Christina Aguilera Diet and Workouts
Christina Aguilera took a slightly unusual approach to eating to help maintain her slim figure and it seems to work. Her diet was simple in theory, although a little harder …
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