HEALTH & WEALTH for LIFE
Archive for May, 2010
What to eat and when to eat it
May 31st
Eating Regularly – Final Part You already know that you are going to be eating 5 – 6 times a day on this Frequent Eating Plan (FEP), but as yet you have no idea what you can eat. That’s because it’s up to you. On this FEP you choose exactly what’s going to appear More >
Eating Regularly with Shapeworks Weightloss Plan
May 30th
What This Eating Plan Does To Your Weight – Part 5 While the effects of this frequent eating plan can be measured from head to toe, its effects on your waistline are the most compelling aspect, particularly the question of how much weight you can lose and how quickly you can eliminate it. On this More >
How Frequent Eating Affects Weight-Loss Hormones
May 29th
How Eating Regularly Can Promote Weight Loss – Part 4 Hormones are chemicals released by the body to trigger various functions within the system, including weight control. There are many hormones involved in this process and they influence everything from how hungry you feel, to how much fat your body stores or releases. But of More >
Eating Regularly – Explained
May 27th
How Eating Regularly Can Promote Weight Loss – Part 2 The reason this can happen is because eating 5 – 6 times a day influences the speed at which you burn calories each day; in other words, it alters your metabolic rate. It does this in two ways: regular eating prevents the slowdown in metabolism More >
How Eating Regularly Can Promote Weight Loss
May 26th
Part 1 For most of us, eating three square meals a day has become a thing of the past. Unlike past generations, who sat down and ate their breakfast, lunch and dinner every day, most of us rush our meals, if we eat them at all. We focus primarily on quickly digested foods high More >
Dieting with a Positive Twist
May 25th
Advice from SparkGuy – By Chris “SparkGuy” Downie, SparkPeople Founder & CEO Quick, when you think of the word ‘diet,’ what pops into your mind? Someone hovering over an all-lettuce salad, using a stopwatch to count the time until the next permitted bite? If this sounds familiar, then it’s important to know that this More >
Burning up
May 18th
Curry, peri-peri chips and beer for lunch; heartburn for supper. It comes as no surprise that the constant taking of heartburn medication holds serious health risks. These include an increased risk of fractures in post-menopausal women and bacterial infections in many other patients. It is indeed astonishing that all the ads for heartburn medication show More >
Shape Up Every Day
May 17th
Exercise is just as important as your eating plan for losing weight and improving your health. Maximize your ShapeWorks progress with a personal fitness plan that includes both aerobic and anaerobic exercise. Aerobic Exercise Aerobic exercise involves large muscle movements over a sustained period of time. Running, fast walking and exercise classes are good examples. More >
Winter Diet
May 16th
In winter, when it’s freezing outside, it’s very tempting to tuck into stodgy comfort food. Then, when spring approaches, you start to panic at the thought of those skimpy summer clothes. But there’s a way to enjoy warming foods without putting on weight. Try these tips: Drink plenty of water, even when it’s cold this More >
