Category: Health and Fitness

Many kids are picky eaters. Whether your child won’t eat anything but chicken nuggets or your child has issues with texture so he won’t try new things, it can be difficult to get your child to eat the healthy foods they need to grow. Here are some tips for encouraging your picky eater to try new things.

Offer choices: Some kids are just never going to eat asparagus. But taking your child to…

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Vitamin D is known as essential for strong bones, but that’s not all. Research shows that vitamin D offers protection against a host of health problems. Unfortunately, it’s fairly easy to become deficient in this important vitamin. Individuals at risk of vitamin D deficiency include those who don’t spend much time in the sun, who are allergic to milk, and who are vegans. That’s becaus…

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It’s a frustrating truth that some of the medications you need can cause you to gain weight or keep you from being able to lose it. Types of drugs known to cause weight gain in some individuals include antipsychotics, antidepressants, corticosteroids, certain type 2 diabetes medications, birth control pills, and beta blockers.

The reasons why medications cause weight gain are varied (and not…

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One of the hardest parts of eating a healthy diet is discerning which foods really are healthy choices. It may seem like a simple matter, but some less-than-ideal foods come disguised as healthy, natural, or low-calorie – when they’re actually anything but. Watch out for:

Cereals. Just because a cereal is organic, high in fibre, made with whole grains, or full of flax seeds does not…

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If you aren’t losing as much weight as you’d like, or are trying to banish those last few stubborn pounds, it may be time to take a much closer look at what you’re eating. Liquid calories are a common culprit. Another is condiments. Depending on how you top your salads, burgers, and other foods, you could be eating hundreds of extra calories that you aren’t even aware of.

Some of t…

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In a perfect world, you’d have time to eat only home-cooked meals made up of whole, fresh, organic foods every day. However, in the real world most people have to eat away from home regularly – sometimes every day. Instead of surrendering to fast food, try these ideas to keep your lunchbox (or your kids’) interesting, delicious, and healthy. Just remember to keep cold foods cold; if you…

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Weight training is a tricky subject, especially for women who hear a lot of conflicting information about the best way to train and what will happen to their bodies when they do. That’s too bad, because the more lean muscle mass you have, the more efficiently you burn calories all day long. These four myths are simply not true – so forget about them and lift away.

Myth: Lifting weights…

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As technology advances so do your opportunities for improving your fitness from the comfort of your own home. This can make it easier for you to try out a variety of new activities and fit them into your busy schedule. There are several interactive game systems that allow you to get a real workout right in front of you home TV.

Workout Routines

You have probably seen a workout routin…

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First eggs are good, then they’re bad, then they’re good again. They’ve been rumoured to cause high cholesterol, heart disease, and more – but do they? Great news for egg lovers: The latest research finds eggs innocent of all charges. More than innocent – if there were a contest for the perfect food, eggs would be frontrunners.

Chicken eggs may be high in cholesterol, but their…

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Some people skip meals because they do not have the time. Other people skip meals because they are too tired at the end of the day. Still others skip meals to try to lose weight. Whatever the reason is skipping meals will actually ruin your metabolism and make you gain weight instead of losing it.

Damaging Your Metabolism

You may have heard about your metabolism, but do not know much about…

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