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Improving Your Health? Toss Out These Nutrition Myths

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dietEveryone wants to live their healthiest life. Proper nutrition is part of the equation for overall wellness, but the amount of available information can be overwhelming. The internet, social media, and magazines are saturated with information on superfoods, cleanses, and what special diet will help you attain that look. Unfortunately, many of these posts and articles are not based in fact.

The following guide will break down some of the most common nutrition myths you might believe. By doing your research and finding food information that is backed by science, you can truly manage your health and increase your vitality. Continue reading →

The Importance of Shedding Excess Weight

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weight lossMost people now know the importance of shedding excess weight for health reasons. Individuals carrying around excess weight are at increased risk of various diseases, some of which could prove fatal. This is why you need to find ways to rid yourself of excess weight safely and effectively.

There are various proven ways to lose weight effectively. These include diet plans such as the Banting diet. If you’re wondering what is banting diet, it is a diet based on the consumption of high fat foods and low carbohydrate foods. It’s one of various diet plans you can choose from.

Finding something to suit your needs isn’t the issue.  It’s sticking to the plan once you find it. To assist you in sticking to a proven plan you might also decide to use products such as natural appetite suppressants to further aid you in reaching your safe weight loss goals. Continue reading →

Turmeric a ‘Superfood Secret’ for Healthy Fat Loss

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turmericAnthony Gucciardi – A super spice known for its numerous anti-cancer properties and an impressive ability to positively influence over 586 diseases according to peer-reviewed research from leading universities, turmeric may also be one of the most powerful substances when it comes to healthy fat loss. Over 1,543 scientific journal entries are now centered around turmeric’s beneficial properties, but a bounty of new research is now hitting the limelight that demonstrates how this powerful spice can actually serve to combat unwanted fat by conquering insulin resistance and blood glucose levels alike.

The fat-vanquishing nature of turmeric and curcumin (a compound within turmeric that is believed to be responsible for many of its benefits) has even generated significant interest within the mainstream medical establishment. Looking to capitalize on the fact that turmeric is increasingly being known as a whole body solution to a number of issues, researchers are now seeking harder than ever to essentially ‘pharma-tize’ turmeric into a pharmaceutical-type drug in which major drug titans can patent as sell off at a premium price to suffering patients.

Peer-Reviewed Research Highlights the Role of Turmeric in Healthy Fat Loss

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Which Promotes Healing — Drinking Alkaline Water Or Eating An Alkaline Diet?

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Robert Harrington – There have been many reports recently about the virtues of drinking alkaline water. Often they are accompanied by sales pitches for water ionizers or alkaline water machines. The marketing behind these water alkalizing product is usually quite aggressive, which begs the question. “Why?”

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First, it ought to be established that the human body functions the best with fresh pure water at its natural pH of 7.0. However, found in its most natural state throughout the environment, water can range from 6.5 to 8.5.

“The normal range for pH in surfacewater systems is 6.5 to 8.5 and for groundwater systems 6 to 8.5. Alkalinity is a measure of the capacity of the water to resists a change in pH that would tend to make the water more acidic.” – pH – Water Research Center

Drinking water on a regular basis that is a little more alkaline than acidic can be advantageous. Acidic water tends to leach minerals from the body, especially the teeth, bones and connective tissue. Even distilled water that has a pH of 7.0 can do the same. Continue reading →

Understanding and Overcoming Food Addiction

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Dawn Walton – It’s getting late. You’ve had a long stressful day at work and you are sitting flicking through the TV channels. You are bored. You go to the kitchen and grab the big bag of snacks you bought earlier. You figure you’ll just eat a few and save the rest. Pretty soon you are scrabbling around for crumbs at the bottom of the packet. You feel a bit sick. You go back through to the kitchen and grab some chocolate. You tell yourself you shouldn’t but you do it anyway. It makes you feel better. It makes you feel less stressed.

subconsciousLater you beat yourself up. Why didn’t you just grab something healthy? Why didn’t you stop when you’d had enough?

You tell yourself you are only eating because you are bored. You decide that tomorrow you will find something else to do so you don’t get bored.

Tomorrow comes. You haven’t found something else to do. You switch the TV on. You go and fetch a bag of snacks. You’ll find that thing tomorrow. Tonight you are too tired.

Night after night you repeat the same behaviour.

You try diets and they kind of work, for a while, but then it gets too much like hard work and you have a day off. Then a few days. And somehow you can’t motivate yourself to start again.

You feel like you have no willpower. What is wrong with you? All these other people seem to be able to eat whatever they want and they’re skinny. Life isn’t fair.

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