Take Time to Enjoy Your Meal Positive traits: Relishing every bite of your meal helps you extract every flavor from your food which in turn will make you feel complete, otherwise because of which you may overeat. If you eat faster, then probably you don’t receive the message that you had enough. Negative traits: Research has proved that during long dinners with friends, we tend to gain more calories. The reason behind this is that while we are with our friends, we eat more and prefer high-calorie dishes, similarly like our friends. In addition, if we sit for a two hour long dinner, we tend to eat more and order deserts just to linger for long with friends. Caution: The essential point to remember is eating slowly and savoring every bite of food. This is to keep an eye over what we are eating. Also, if you can’t say no to large portion of food, then while you enter in a restaurant, ask the waiter to pack half portion for home. And if after eating the main course meal,  [...]

Fill Your Plate (and Pantry) with Many Different Foods Positive traits: As the famous saying cites “Variety is the spice of life,” it is absolutely true and an effective way. How? As it prevents boredom, which is a nightmare as it is a diet disaster. For instance: if you are served grilled chicken with steamed vegetables every night on a regular basis, and you compel yourself to stick with this diet, then you may find yourself munching a double cheese burger before the week ends. Negative traits: Variety may impel you to eat loads of food. This is because of a phenomenon called as ‘Sensory-specific Satiety.’ Hollie Raynor Phd, RD, explains “When flavors are limited, we tend to eat less.” Also a study conducted by Dr. Raynor reported that dieters who were limited to just one type of snack ate lesser calories than those who ate several varieties. Caution: Prefer eating variety of fruits, vegetables and other low calorie foodstuffs that are your favorites. However,  [...]

You might be familiar with the saying that every rule has an exception; yeah… there are lots of good and healthy advices out there, but do you know that sticking too much to them can end you up leading nowhere as mind gets frustrated after a hectic period of diet and ultimately ends in hidden indulgences. For instance: for losing of oodles of weight, you might abandon chocolate, however following too much of dieting plans strictly, may lead you gorging entire chocolate cake alone one night. Therefore, if you are looking ahead for losing weight, then the perfect key is moderation as is personalization. Tara Gidus, RD, an Orlando-based nutritionist suggests “There’s no one-sizefits- all diet plan.” Experts are of the view that good nutrition and exercising are some healthy habits that can help in slimming down, but apart from this, there is always space for minor alterations. As Rena Wing, Phd, Co-Founder of the National Weight Control Registry recommends “It’s important to  [...]

Instead of sitting to talk on the phone, try standing up to chat By this way, you can efficiently burn up to 40% calories, and kick the chances of gaining extra weight. A study came out with surprising results that obese women sit 2 and half hours more than there slimmer friends. Rather than sitting while talking on the phone, get walking and catch up talking, apart from this idea catch up with other effective ideas. For instance, while you are watching T.V., start doing other household chores like ironing simultaneously; skip the seating for standing on the sidelines, while your kids are on the soccer field. Instead of beating the 3 p.m. slump with a cup of coffee, try going for a walk Studies have proved that an energetic 10-minute walk stimulates energy levels for hours to come as well helps you accumulate 30 minutes of routine work out, which is suggested by your CDC to mitigate the risks of obesity, heart diseases, hypertension, diabetes and varied types of cancer. Gulping coffee  [...]

Kudos to those who can adapt to new habits by recreating themselves overnight! However, these kinds of persons are quite rare to find in planet Earth. Usually, the quick changes don’t last for long. Therefore, it is suitable if we consider minor tweaks that can bring a big difference. For this purpose, I am right here at your disposal to help you in leading a healthy life. Try to give these tips a hit each week, so that you start leaving a hale and hearty life. Instead of staying up late to watch Letterman, try calling a friend before you call it a night Switching to channels, surfing for chatting with mates is good for our health as they work positively for our mood and waistline. Recent 35-year analysis conducted over 45,000 adults reported that unhappy people watched about 20% more television, compared to their cheerful friends. The happy-go-lucky friends spent most of their leisure time mingling or reading. Another research carried in the sleep department of Nurses’ Health Study  [...]

Most of the women restrict the utility of expensive anti-aging creams to cut down the expenses of our beauty regimes. Just because our beauty budgets are contracting, it doesn’t mean that the glow and luster of our faces should get wiped off. So, we sought views of Lisa Drayer, MA, RD, author of ‘The Beauty Diet,’ to find out whether there are some measures that can overturn the signs of aging from inside out. Check out her tips which render a whole new meaning to the old oldage by “You are what you eat.” The Power of Antioxidants Lisa Drayer describes the free-radical theory of aging in her book, where she presents clear description wherein she says, that each day we are exposed to free radicals (unstable atoms or molecules) that “wreak havoc on a molecular level.” If this process continues, then over a period of time, it sprouts dilapidating diseases like cancer, cataract, wrinkles, and other such diseases pertaining to old age. Ultimately, the question that evokes in  [...]

Read ahead whether your child requires extra vitamins. Recent study conducted over 10,000 children discovered that kids who don’t consume multivitamins are the one with utmost need of multi-vitamins. Most pediatricians recommend that those kids who are very picky and don’t eat multi-vitamins are the ones who absolutely need it. Pediatrician Bob Sears, MDMD, author of ‘The Healthiest Kid in the Neighborhood,’ suggests that “I don’t recommend a multi for every child, but there are some who could use it as a little insurance.” Frank Geer, MDMD, Chairman of the American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Nutrition suggests another reason to consider Vitamin D, “We advise 400 IUIU of D daily, which a child can really only get by drinking 32 ounces of milk.” Taking a multi-vitamin is an easy and cheap way to enhance the level of your child’s energy and assuring yourself that child is getting enough nourishment. So, make sure that your kid is full and healthy with  [...]

Check ahead how this processed sugar influences our sugar hankerings. When you gaze the rolling fields of corn, might be you would awe… over it, and move ahead, all this don’t reflect or hint sugar to your senses, however it should. This is because corn is a fruitful source of corn syrup and high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS). You might be aware of both of them, is it or not? If you don’t, then let me inform you that both serve as sweeteners and make your dishes appetizing. HFCS is a highly processed combination of fructose and corn starch, but still it often leaves bad taste- not in the mouth, but in mind. This is because we have developed bad notions about HFCS. Got confused, whether it is good or bad for your health? Pondering whether, HFC’S are worse compared to other forms of sugar? Let me clear your doubts. Experts say not in and of in itself, the fact however, is that your body treats all sorts of sugar in the same manner, that means it is converted into glucose and utilized  [...]