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,  [...]

The economic crises have become talk of town. Everyday starts with the news of bankruptcy or job cutting. It’s really painful as the people are suffering like anything. But do you really think that the recession came all of a sudden? There should have been some alarming system to bang our minds before such a horrible situation to come, don’t you think so? Let’s get this point cleared by the dieting experience of ours. When we go out for a party or to have a rest to the kitchen, we never think of the dieting system. We just eat what our tongue order us and even make a fun of those foods which cent percent are unhealthy for us. We do it regularly, for many days. Even we don’t care about compensating the calories by exercise or walk or jogging etc. All of a sudden we caught into the health trap and became a strong customer of the cholesterols and blood pressure problems. Now what? Here we arrive to the similar situation of recession. There is a thumb rule that even if you had  [...]