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What is protein and why do our bodies need it?
Well, protein provides your body with everything it needs to create, maintain and repair every cell and tissue. It’s an important component of muscle and skin, hair and nails, blood and organs, our brains and even our nerves. As you can see, protien is one of [...]

JoLynn over at thefitshack.com is up to something interesting. She’s put herself on a Ban The Refined Sugar Experiment. Here are her guidelines:
Here are the guidelines that I am committing to:
1. I will not ingest any sugar for the next 30 days.
2. I will be eating natural sugar in the form of some fruits, such [...]

Everyone’s recommending the benefits of eating a low glycemic diet. But, what is that?
Here’s what Wikipedia has to say:
The Glycemic Index is a ranking system for carbohydrates based on their effect on blood glucose levels in the first two hours. It compares carbohydrates gram for gram in individual foods, providing a numerical, evidence-based index of [...]

Can you imagine living in a society where people’s wages were based on their weight? Sounds crazy, doesn’t it?
Well, according to the American Obesity Association, we’re living in that kind of society right now.
According to their research, women who are mildly obese make 5.9% less than their peers and women who are morbidly obese (100 [...]

Okay, so everyone wants to lose weight. It’s no wonder. Most people sit in front of a screen all day, hit the drive-thru for dinner on the way home and don’t get nearly enough exercise.
But who has time to exercise and eat healthy? You know the foods I’m talking about, the ones that [...]

Suppose you don’t want to think about cooking, and you want it to be healthy? Suppose you are on a particular plan and you don’t want to screw up.
Then you might consider a diet plan. And if you are considering a diet plan, then you should go read diet-blog’s
round up of 25 delivery services.

Katiebird over at Eat 4 Today reviews the Performance Diet system and software:
I clicked on the desktop icon that normally (I would have said always before this) starts a software program, and was taken to a Welcome Message with two buttons. The first says, How to Start Your Diet Program, the other says, I want [...]

Time to jack up your V8 juice intake. It may help lower your risk of Alzheimer’s.

Really Useful Fitness Blog has a list of 7 food to always avoid. Included are the dangers of doughnuts, fried foods, and other high calorie/no substance foods that are going to tank your diet.

Is obesity related to how much people make? It’s an interesting question, certainly it affected my own food purchases when things were very tight, and the weight packed on as I ate cheap. As Diet-Blog points out:
Junk food as a cheap comfort is the real issue. Anyone that goes shopping knows that refined carbohydrates are [...]