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The Importance of Tracking Macronutrients and How to Do It
When most people start dieting and exercising, they dive headfirst into tracking every calorie they eat. While keeping track of calories is necessary for losing weight, it doesn’t give you the full picture. Instead of just tracking your calories, you should be paying...
Five Reasons You’re Not Losing Weight
Are you hitting the gym four times a week and restricting your calories, but still struggling to lose weight? There may be a few reasons why the number on the scale isn’t decreasing the way you want it to. Not eating enough or often enough While this may seem...
How to Keep Yourself from Binge Eating
It’s happened to us all. After a day of following a strict meal plan and only eating healthy foods, you get home from work or school and find yourself unable to stop eating junk food. Afterward, you feel guilty for ruining a day of healthy eating and vow to stop...
What is Intermittent Fasting and Does it Work?
Intermittent fasting is a new dieting trend that has everyone talking. What exactly is it - and is it an effective way to lose weight? Intermittent fasting involves a window of time when you’re allowed to eat and a window of time where you aren’t allowed to...
Artificial Sweeteners Vs. Sugar: The Great Debate on Which You Should be Consuming
For decades, sugar has been one of the most persistent health controversies: should you be consuming artificial sweetener or good ole' authentic sugar? Beyond the influence of their subtle differences in flavor, each sweetener carries a handful of both pros and cons...
Four Natural Remedies for Nausea
Nausea is an unpleasant sensation that usually occurs before vomiting. Typical symptoms related to nausea include brain fog, a cold sweat, and fatigue. A few of the most common triggers for this uncomfortable feeling include motion sickness, food poisoning, and...
How to Prevent Foodborne Illnesses
This spring, five people died after eating lettuce contaminated with E. coli. The CDC recently announced that 90 people have gotten salmonella from raw turkey meat. Goldfish and Ritz crackers were just voluntarily recalled due to possible salmonella presence....
Is Juicing as Great as it Seems?
Juicing is all the rage lately. It seems to be a quick and easy way to get all of your servings of fruits in vegetables in one sitting. Joe Cross made a documentary about his extreme weight loss as a result of juicing. But is juicing as healthy as it seems? Juicing...
Gut Health – What Is It and Why Should You Care
Your gastrointestinal tract is lined with a microbiome, which contains bacteria, fungi and even viruses. It sounds gross, but gut bacteria is essential for your body to function correctly. There should always be a mix between good and bad bacteria in your gut, but...
How to Stay Healthy as a Vegetarian
Vegetarians are some of the healthiest people on the planet - or so popular opinion would have you believe. Humor me for a moment; what do you picture when you hear the term? Do you think of a willowy runner who wrinkles her nose at the Philly cheesesteak sitting on...