If you are trying to lose some weight, you have probably heard by now about calorie counter and people using such a tool. If you imagine that counting calories is complicated, unnecessarily or just not for you, you are deeply wrong. Calories we consume eating are actually a measure for the amount of energy that they are providing in order for us to perform daily activities. Not even breathing would be possible without calories. However, if we don't use all the calories we consume, they will pile up in our bodies and lead to overweight. Under these circumstances, I guess it is easy to understand why a daily calorie counter becomes effective. It is important to keep tack of your calorie intake and to know exactly what you have consumed during the day. The basic principle that every weight loss plan is promoting is that for ensuring weight loss you need to burn more calories than you eat. This means that you have to carefully keep under control the things that are reaching your ... [more..]

For some, a raw food diet is an alternative to modern medicine. It is a testament of Hippocrates, "Let your food be your medicine ..." A change in diet is often the first order of a physician if you take more water, more vegetables and less red meat or fatty foods. Diet as is assigned to an illness or disease that is currently suffering and allow them to drastically low cholesterol diet, low carb diet containing raw and cooked foods. But it is not always the case. Logic states that if a certain type of diet can cure diseases, should also be useful for people without the disease, your medicine be your food. A few months ago, a friend of mine underwent a routine mammogram and a piece has been seen on the left breast. The degree of malignancy was not confirmed, but surgery was recommended. Breast cancer is scary as the monster in the closet of a woman. What woman is not afraid of breast cancer, regardless of age and health? Overnight, gave what most of us live by bread, pasta and rice. Its food consists of fresh fruit and vegetables, shake / juice, ... [more..]

This Vegetarian Food Guide is designed to reflect healthy patterns of dietary intake that are not only adequate but promote optimal health. This proposed document is meant to provide a range of portions and a general sense of frequency of servings. Its purpose also includes the promotion of an ongoing discussion among scientists and health-care practitioners, as well as vegetarians coming from different traditions, with the purpose of developing and refining a food guide that promotes optimal health. Typically, food guides have translated nutritional standards into recommendations for daily food intake in an attempt to meet specific nutritional standards. These standards have traditionally been based on experimental data involving non-vegetarian subjects and have been targeted to the general, non-vegetarian population. In contrast, we believe that studies relating to the dietary patterns of vegetarian populations who enjoy optimal health are valuable and valid sources of information, and can be used in developing a model of healthful eating. A vegetarian diet can be very healthy, but it is not inherently so. Just cutting meat out of your meals does not automatically assure you all the benefits of the vegetarian diet - in order to be healthy, you need to eat healthy food, vegetarian or ... [more..]

In the last 25 years I have been asked thousands and thousands of fitness related questions. Invariably the most prominent question is, with their hand patting their tummy, how do I lose this? My answer is the same every-time. Eat less (portion size in each setting), eat more often with protein and carbs combined together, and eat higher quality less processed foods. Eating higher quality food on the surface seems easy. No junk food, right. That's not enough anymore we must have more information because the quality of the food we are eating is at an all time low. The big food companies have laced everything with chemicals and preservatives so it will last longer so they can make more money. God did not intend for all those altered substances to be in our body. Thus, we are seeing many new diseases that seem to have no cause. I will tell you what the cause is; it's the artificial sweeteners, artificial fats, chemicals and preservatives that we are putting in our mouth. We are what we eat. When you understand that your body is in a constant state of regeneration, then the term "you are what you eat" takes on a ... [more..]