Reasons To Cut Sugar From Your Diet
There’s been a lot of talk in the media about the evils of sugar consumption. Sugar is hidden in all sorts of foods including bread and salad dressing. Add to that our love for things like biscuits and ice cream and it’s no wonder our sugar consumption is skyrocketing. Unfortunately, all this added sugar is…
3 Not-So-Easy Ways To Cut Back On Sugar
In my part of the world, Australia, the average person consumes about 40 kg or 88 pounds of sugar per year. If you think that’s bad, the average American downs 73 kg (160 pounds) of refined sugar every year. Think about that for a minute. That’s a hell of a lot of sugar. Just two…
10 Healthy Eating Habits to Adopt in 2016
Our eating and lifestyle habits, both good or bad, can have a tremendous impact on our health and well-being. It is up to us to choose whether or not we want to incorporate healthy eating habits into our daily lives. When we view healthy eating habits as a choice and not something that has…
5 Stress-Busting Quick Relaxation Techniques for Busy People
Stress can strike anytime, anywhere. From the moment you wake up in the morning until you go to bed at night, challenges at work or home can set off your body’s stress response system which can lead to fat storage and weight gain. What’s really concerning is that the stress response tends to result in…
Benefits of Making Positive Lifestyle Changes
An active lifestyle and healthy diet is our greatest hope for personal health, vitality and well-being throughout our lives – and it’s never too late to make changes. The health care systems in many countries are currently under way too much pressure to cope with the influx of patients suffering from metabolic disease. Unfortunately, the…
Start with mindfulness to lose weight
Do Diets Work? It is a well-established belief that the key to losing weight is simply burning more calories than we consume. There are countless diets and weight loss programs out there to advise us on how to do this. Most involve carefully monitoring everything we eat while urging us to keep within a pre-determined,…
