Getting kids to eat healthy can be quite a challengechildren seem to abide the rules of bad things taste good, good things taste bad, and eat things that taste good. Even adults fall into this pattern often, but its important for everyone to eat a healthy diet. Its especially important for kids because they are [...]
When people think of eating disorders, theyre usually thinking of conditions that involve starvation, vomiting and excessive exercise in desperate attempts to lose weight. While anorexia and bulimia are indeed problematic eating disorders, sometimes the opposite side of the eating disorder spectrum is overlooked. Obesity is also a serious problem that can sometimes be attributed [...]
Staying healthy can be quite the task! This may be the reason many people tend to overlook what they eat each day, and whether or not they get in that 30 minutes of cardio. However, as we age, it becomes more and more important to think about saturated fats and high cholesterol levels. Avoiding the [...]
What Every Person Should Know About Nutrition
When I was a kid, there wasnt that much to know about nutrition. We had four food groups. Sugar was bad for you, and vegetables were good. It was all very simple, and very easy to remember.
Nowadays, nothing seems quite so straightforward anymore. Everywhere you look there is another expert offering a different opinion about [...]
Not all calories are equal. When planning an healthy diet, its important to keep in mind that limiting calorie intake in itself is not enough to ensure good health. Its not always even enough to lose weight! For optimum health benefits, a diet should make the most of every calorie by packing in nutrients and [...]
Fast and Easy Baked Fish Recipes
I’m not exactly the healthiest eater around. I love my junk food, am practically addicted to carbs, and feel the same way about vegetables as most 8-year-old kids. But now that I’m getting older, I have to start being more careful about the stuff I put into my body, and I have to try to [...]
Many people understand that diabetes is a dangerous condition. But few people know about diabetes enough to understand what to do to prevent the disease. In fact, what most people don’t know about diabetes is that there are two kinds. Type 1 is a disease generally found in childhood and is the more serious of [...]
Six safe ‘recipes’ for toddlers to introduce them to cooking
Six safe ‘recipes’ for toddlers to introduce them to cooking and healthy eating
If you’ve got a toddler in the house, you know how much mischief they can get in to, being the curious little cuties they are. Most parents know that constant supervision is required to keep them safe. Cooking tasks are usually not permitted, [...]
The Prevention of Obesity In Children and Teenagers
Depending on where you grew up, you may have spent all of your free time outdoors running around with friends. This went a long way towards keeping you healthy and may have led to good habits in your adult years. Today, it seems that more and more children are being diagnosed or labeled as obese, [...]
An Ounce of Prevention Worth Several Pounds of Cure: How
An Ounce of Prevention Worth Several Pounds of Cure: How to Prevent Diabetes
In recent years, diabetes has emerged as a serious epidemic in our society. It has an unfortunate relation to the rise of fast-food commercialism and technology of convenience. In efforts to prevent our world from resembling that of which Pixar conceived of [...]
To look at me, you wouldn’t think I had a problem with fat cells making that awful “cottage cheese” pattern on my thighs or rear. After all, I’m a petite 5′4″ tall and weigh a healthy 115 pounds. But thanks to years of terrible eating habits, I have indeed built up a plethora of fat [...]
We all want to look our best, and theres no harm in that, but for the younger ones among us, attaining the body of our dreams carries with it a host of dangers. While the growing obesity epidemic poses serious health risks, care must be taken by teenagers to not move too far in the [...]
Losing weight isn’t easy … or is it? Learn how
Losing weight isn’t easy … or is it? Learn how to shed pounds easily while building health and energy
No matter what the time of year, tens of millions of Americans are obsessively pursuing losing weight. This objective is fraught with obstacles and many of us suffer endless frustration, dieting with this program or that, all [...]
About France for the American Visitor
Everyone knows at least a few things about France. The Eiffel Tower, baguettes and berets. Any time anyone says anything about France, it all sort of sounds the same. “The food!” or “It’s magical!”. And if you’ve never been to France, let me assure you, everything you’ve ever heard about France is true (except for [...]
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