Tips for a Healthy Weekend

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Keep it up. Your healthy habits, that is.
We all tend to relax - or be lax - on weekends; that’s what they’re for, right? But loosening our grips on a healthy lifestyle, even just for the weekend, can sabotage our efforts to reach health and fitness goals.
Recent studies indicate that we [...]

7 Comfort Foods that are Good for You

Comfort - A condition or feeling of pleasurable ease, well-being, and contentment.
Food - A substance you consume to produce energy, stimulate growth, and provide nourishment.
Put these two words together and people dream of fudge sundaes, turn to pot pie for pick-me-ups and fall prey to many other kinds of eating rituals. This is the power [...]

Tips for a Healthy Weekend

Keep it up. Your healthy habits, that is.
We all tend to relax - or be lax - on weekends; that’s what they’re for, right? But loosening our grips on a healthy lifestyle, even just for the weekend, can sabotage our efforts to reach health and fitness goals.
Recent studies indicate that we tend to take in [...]

Measure Progress Without the Scale

Whichever you choose, these emotions are enemies of people trying to lose weight-especially when you feel like you have done everything right. For many trying to shed pounds, the elation from that initial weight loss is brought to a screeching halt when the scale stops moving. But instead of viewing this as a setback, look [...]

Eating Negative Calorie Food for Positive Weight Loss Results

Do negative calorie foods really exist? In reality no, there is no such thing as a food that contains negative calories; every food has some caloric value, even cardboard. But the theory and science behind the negative calorie food idea does make sense if you look at how it is supposed to work.
The diet is [...]

Busting the Top 4 Cardio Machine Myths

Spending a good 60 minutes on the treadmill is a surefire way to make you feel accomplished. After completing the machine’s fat-burning workout, you feel great and quite proud of yourself as you stare at the number flashing on the screen: 752 calories burned. “Wow,” you think. “That’s enough to splurge on a little dessert [...]

Ten Superfoods That Heal The Body & How To Get Them

The recent triumphs of Orovo and other dietary supplements have created quite a buzz online. Those using these supplements have not only reported a loss of weight, but have increased their energy and enhanced the appearance of their skin as well. The main reason for this success comes down to one simple word — food.
Superfoods [...]

Beating Restaurants at Their Own Game!

Does your favorite restaurant serve piles of tempting foods on platters rather than plates? Are the biggie-sized meals at fast food restaurants trapping you into overeating? How do you deal with a bountiful breadbasket? Eating out is fun and relaxing, but you can make it healthier. Use these tried and true suggestions the next time [...]

Angel Lush Cake

1 Sugar-Free, Fat-free Angel Food Cake
1 cup Cool-Whip Free (Sugar/Fat Free)
1 20oz. can crushed pineapple in juice, not drained
1 pkg. Jello sugar-free, fat-free vanilla pudding
8 large strawberries (for decorating the top)
Directions - Slice cake, horizontally, into thirds. In a bowl, combine pudding mix, pineapple with juice, and cool-whip. Spread between the layers of cake including [...]

Apple Rice

Apple Rice
A new way to eat rice!
Ingredients

2 cups apple juice
2 cups instant white rice
2 tbsp butter
2 Macintosh apples (or other sweet apples) diced into small pieces
Directions
In a sauce pan, add diced apples and apple juice. Bring to a boil.
Add in white rice and cook over lowest heat until all juice is absorbed.
Add in butter.
Serve and [...]