Healthy Meals With Less Carbs

The single biggest truth of successful dieting is your total caloric intake vs your caloric expenditure over time. There’s just no escaping it. So how do we prepare healthy meals that can also help manage our intake of calories? All healthy meals, in fact all healthy foods regardless of their health-value, are a mix of fat/protein/carbs. In this article we’ll look specifically at the role carbs play in a healthy, weight loss diet. When it comes to carbohydrate consumption it’s important as it affects your body’s blood sugar and hormones plus it stimulates cravings. You could... [Read more...]

Healthy Meals, Part 1: Breakfast

Ahhh, breakfast…breaking the fast…’the most important meal of the day’. If it’s so great why is it so hard to have a healthy meal at breakfast? Many of us think eating cereal with a few slices of toast is a healthy start to the day. Many of us would be wrong! You are what you don’t eat Just take a look at the nutritional panel of the cereal you’re eating. Yes, even the so-called healthy muesli. While you’re at it also peek at the bread and the spread you’re using. Chances are you’re eating a great big bowl of sugar. Are you eating sugar... [Read more...]

Losing Weight With Exercise: Some Truly Effective Tips

by April Kerr If you are searching for the greatest weight loss exercise program and you have yet to discover something that really works, look at the kinds of programs that you have been using. Because your body is different and will react to exercise differently, you might need to concentrate on one type of exercise plan over another. Resistance training is time and again a highly successful system to help burn off those additional calories and develop the core muscles you’re looking for. A weight loss exercise plan that offers you a good variety of options for working your trouble areas... [Read more...]

“A healthy breakfast cereal for kids? No such thing!”

You must be loopy to serve this for breakfast I’ll start this article with a lament. How can we have our kids eating good, healthly meals when there’s so much temptation (and advertising) for the fatty, sugary and, admittedly, delicious alternatives? Well, there are healthy breakfast cereals in a box and some you can create. It’ll take time to break the breakfast sugar fix. The rewards will be leaner, healthier, energetic. focused and less sick kids. Pester power If we parents haven’t heard of this saying, we’ve certainly experienced and relented to it. It’s... [Read more...]

Healthy Meals From Bondi

Here’s some ideas and recipes for healthy meals inspired by beautiful Bondi Beach. My local beach for 40+ years. This article mainly concentrates on a healthy breakfast. Bondi is an active, energetic, vibrant place, especially in the morning. I work-out there 3-4 times a week from 6-7am with a friend. (Thought some days. like today, we decide just to wander about and grab a coffee. Bondi has great coffee). Bondi is just 7 kilometres from the CBD of Sydney. So many people work-out each morning before going into work. There’s not many better ways to start the day than with a surf. Bondi... [Read more...]

Low GI Foods – wonder fuel for your body.

The Insulin Trigger. The goal of a low GI (food low on the Glycemic Index) meal is to allow the release of glucose slowly and steadily into the bloodstream, without overstimulating the pancreas to produce too much insulin. In other words, keeping the ‘safety catch’ on the insulin trigger. A low GI meal is wonderful for our bodies, but there is still a need to observe the fine print of the food we eat. For example, the amount of sugar (yes, some low GI food may contain large quantities of added or naturally occurring sugar. Always check the nutritional panel). Some people say it’s... [Read more...]

Tips on How to Lose Weight

by April Kerr Today programs which promise quick weight loss are everywhere. It is hard for anyone who watches TV, or reads newspapers and magazines to miss these weight loss advertisements. These fad diets are very convincing, and are hard to resist for many people in our health-conscious society. Unfortunately, individuals who have quite a bit of weight to lose are frequently the true target audience for these programs. If fat diets worked, this would be fantastic. Sadly, most do not work. Overweight individuals spend a fortune on fad diets, only to be left in the same condition, or worse than... [Read more...]

Weight Loss Help – Simple Tips For You

by April Kerr There are many fad diets around these days, which promise quick weight loss. Most include testimonials, and even photos, claiming results that would be tempting to anyone who has a few pounds to lose. An individual who has a large amount of weight to lose may feel desperate, depressed, and overwhelmed. As a result, this group will shell out an astronomical amount of money, chasing this promised miracle. More often than not, the diet fails, the overweight person starts to believe that weight loss is impossible for them, and the diet industry becomes more wealthy. Understanding that... [Read more...]

Healthy Foods for a healthier, trimmer you.

It’s pretty simple concept – healthy foods and moderate exercise are your best strategy for health and weight loss or management. Better than any diet ever devised. Better than any wonder drug, supplement or shake. Better than any piece of expensive gym equipment. Better than any new age method. So what’s stopping you? Everybody knows the benefits of eating healthy foods. Most know what healthy foods are and where to get them. Most of us have gone on a ‘health kick’ at one time or another. In fact, I’m on one now. And, sadly, there’s more and more of us... [Read more...]

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