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Dieting: Top 5 healthy drinks
Flat Belly Drink: Watermelon Smoothie As long as they’re made without sugary mixers like sherbet, smoothies are a guilt-free way to hydrate—and watermelon is a terrific, low-cal smoothie base. Not only is it a natural hydrator because of its water content, watermelon is also loaded with nutrients, including cancer-fighting lycopene, as well as an amino [...]
Coffee: Bad Reputation, Good Health
Coffee has long had a special place in my heart. Although I am not too fond of American brewed coffee — it’s too weak, in my opinion — even that is a variety I am learning to like. Nothing beats the smell of a freshly pulled shot of espresso. It livens the senses in every [...]
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Why eating bugs is good for your health and the environment
What would it taste like to eat a cricket? That’s what I wondered recently while watching a mother bird feed its fat, hungry babies. As it happens, Chicago’s Brookfield Zoo has an insect chef serving crickets on the weekends this summer, so I had the chance to find out! While at Brookfield’s Xtreme Bugs exhibit, I tasted crickets [...]
4 Ways To Turn Your Walk Into A Workout
A daily walk is a great way to maintain good health. These variations on your stroll can make the exercise even better. We typically look to measurements like weight, cholesterol level and blood pressure when we evaluate our health. But we may want to add another statistic to the list: Our number of daily steps. [...]
Dance your way to fitness with Zumba
People of different age groups take to the zumba, a Latin American dance form, not just for recreation, but also to give them that effective workout. Dance was long seen as the best way to relax after a hard working week, with city ladies and men letting their hair down over the weekend in discotheques and clubs, [...]
Healthy Eating: 6 deceiving ‘health’ foods
Many foods are advertised as being low in calories and fat, and they certainly taste like they are healthy too; but are they really good for you? There are countless foods and beverages found on grocery store shelves or served in restaurants that have an aura of being healthy, low fat and low in calories, [...]
Triggers that slow metabolism
Age, diet and lifestyle can all send your body’s calorie burn screeching to a halt. Is there a way to fight back? Yes, according to everydayhealth.com. There are only two true ways to boost metabolism: weight-loss surgery and weight training that increases muscle mass. But there are many factors that can cause metabolism to slow and [...]
Certain Diets May Help Body Burn More Calories
Dieters have long been told that to lose weight, you simply need to cut calories. But new research suggests that some combinations of foods may burn more calories than others. When researchers compared a low-fat diet, a very low-carbohydrate diet and a low-glycemic-index diet, they found that people on very low-carb diets used the most [...]
Facts don’t support detox diets
The desire to rid the body of fat and suspected toxins often ends up putting the body through torturous fasts and consumption of strange liquids. While flushes, detox diets and fasts are hyped as a way to remove waste that’s supposedly “stuck” in our digestive system, there’s not a lot of scientific evidence that this [...]
