Eating late at night is never a good idea for your body or general health as it destroys any chance of restorative sleep. Digesting food properly takes time and requires energy which is incompatible with a body supposedly at rest and recuperating. In fact, 9pm is too late an eating deadline as the [...]

Weight gain and retention have many origins as well as supposed solutions. However, one common food item with a significant impact on body weight is salt, or sodium.  Food manufactures add a lot of salt to foods, deadening our over-stimulated taste buds, and to increase product shelf life. Salt is in virtually all [...]

Here’s a New Year’s list of 14 strategies to help increase a fat loss fitness regime. The more of them you use the more successful you’ll be.
Eat more protein 30% of your total daily calories should come from protein. Protein protects muscles from breakdown when calories are low and liberates stored energy.
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For sure, most of us over-indulge from time to time but for some impulsive/compulsive eating disorders become ingrained habits that are hard to break and play havoc with any fitness regime or weight loss program.
Impulsive eating is eating without thinking and without need. It becomes habitual and can be triggered by any sudden urge [...]

According to a study at Princeton University, a genetic tendency for addiction combined with irregular eating patterns can result in a sugar dependency which leads to a cycle of binge eating and deprivation.
In tests with rats indications of a vicious cycle of sugar dependency increased during a period of less than ten days and led [...]

Present day work environments and schedules are not usually very sympathetic or flexible towards those trying to follow a healthy lifestyle or on a diet. Shift work, overtime, deadlines, family responsibilities and commuting can all wreck your fitness regime if you let them. While some compromises may be necessary the secret is to [...]

Although most people who regularly take multivitamins do so for nutritional reasons another advantage which is often overlooked is how they can enhance your appearance. To get the best for your looks out of your multivitamin it should contain 100% of the following ingredients:
Vitamin A helps protect your skin from infection as well as [...]

Different physical activities have differing energy requirements, as one might expect. However, these energy requirements rely on a variety of sources of fuel as well as bodily energy systems to supply their needs. Understanding your body’s needs and responses according to the type of physical activity you’re involved in largely determines your overall [...]

In the rush to the gym to achieve a perfect physique, build muscle mass and/or lose weight it’s easy to forget that the real reasons we’re in such bad shape lie closer to home. Most commonly the problem is lifestyle: eating the wrong foods, not getting enough sleep, basic exercise or fresh air [...]

Achieving our goals in life often creates both internal and external conflicts. The pressures to give up and or compromise can become so pervasive we simply surrender rather than take up the fight. Work schedules, family responsibilities, even friendships and social obligations can all get in the way if we let them. [...]