Many women want to achieve a leaner, fitter, and healthier body. One way to achieve this is to lose weight. When it comes to losing weight, there are so many approaches that you can choose from. However, no matter what approach you plan to use for weight loss, there are things that you need to consider before starting your plan. Check out this checklist below before you … [Read more...]
Why “One Size Fits All Diet” Don’t Work
By Evelyn DeDomincis and Charlene Bazarian It is an all too familiar scenario: You run into an old friend that you have not seen in a while and they look amazing! Your friend lost a lot of weight and you can’t help yourself; you gush: “You look incredible! How did you DO it?!” Your friend excitedly shares her “secret” and tells you … [Read more...]
Consuming 1,200 Calories/Day for Weight loss
Consuming 1,200 calories a day may involve a significant reduction in daily calories or may represent a slight reduction, depending on a person's usual calorie intake. Researchers suggest that a low-calorie diet, such as a 1,200-calorie diet, offers additional health benefits. The National Institute of Health (NIH) note that in animal studies, lower calorie diets helped … [Read more...]
Calorie Density: Key To Losing Weight
A year-long clinical trial by Penn State researchers shows that diets focusing on foods that are low in calorie density can promote healthy weight loss while helping people to control hunger. The calorie density (or energy density) of a food is a measurement of the average calories per weight (gram or ounce) of that food. Foods that are high in water and low in fat - such as … [Read more...]
