Act sooner rather than later to prevent heart disease, a new study suggests. This means young adults should not put off treating high blood pressure or unhealthy cholesterol levels. The study involved more than 36,000 Americans. It came to some sobering conclusions about young adults with high blood pressure or elevated LDL cholesterol (the “bad”… Read More
Category: Weight Loss
1. Trimming 300 calories a day — which a HealthDay reporter noted was the equivalent of six Oreo cookies — can cut the risk for diabetes and heart disease, according to a story posted on WebMD. A study group of 200 adults, all younger than 50 and at a healthy weight or carrying a few… Read More
If you find yourself partial to a that pan au chocolate, bowl of cereal or Danish Pastry for your breakfast, you might be sabotaging your weight loss. According to experts, breakfast is the most important meal to set you up for the day and refined carbohydrates are the worst foods to spike insulin levels. “The… Read More
A Registered Dietitian Explains How A Keto Diet Could Boost Fertility – mindbodygreen.com
Infertility is an incredibly frustrating and stressful process affecting far more people than you might expect. In fact, over 6 million couples in the U.S. (or 1 in 6) experience infertility, which is defined as not being able to get pregnant after a year or more of unprotected sex—and that number isn’t likely to drop… Read More
Picture a glass of water filled with slices of cucumber…is there literally anything more refreshing? (Bonus points if you put those slices over your eyelids afterward.) But when it comes to eating cukes—do cucumbers actually have any nutrition benefits? Or is chowing down on cucumbers basically the same as eating iceberg lettuce? Good news, cuke… Read More
Losing weight is considered as one that requires some physical activity with most of the time spent in the kitchen. Have you ever been told what exactly needs to be done in terms of food choices? Sure, there are a wide range of diets that have come and gone, with very few sticking around including… Read More
A former Boston University lightweight rower has revealed that she used to starve herself and spit in a cup for hours on end in order to slim down for her weekly weigh-ins, while exposing some of the extreme measures team members would take to lose weight. In a new YouTube video, recent BU graduate Gretchen Geraghty,… Read More
Operation Transformation dietitian Aoife Hearne believes women need to be realistic about their post-pregnancy bodies, writes Ciara McDonnell. There is a sign taped to the front door of Aoife Hearne’s house, warning off rogue door-knockers by informing them that if they wake her children, there will be hell to pay. As mum to Dylan, four,… Read More
As consumers in the 21st century, we enjoy unparalleled access to information to guide our decisions about health. Paradoxically, we also struggle with the opposite reality: We live in an era of unparalleled misinformation capable of confusing and misdirecting even well-intentioned readers. Perhaps most frustrating of all is that one of the latest examples of… Read More
As consumers in the 21st century, we enjoy unparalleled access to information to guide our decisions about health. Paradoxically, we also struggle with the opposite reality: We live in an era of unparalleled misinformation capable of confusing and misdirecting even well-intentioned readers. Perhaps most frustrating of all is that one of the latest examples of… Read More