According to the CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention), approximately one half of all Americans have tried to lose weight over the past year. If you are one of these Americans, you know how difficult it can be to drop excess fat. Not only is it hard to avoid the advertising and offerings for high-caloric foods that surround us
While most people assume that stretching is only an activity that can benefit a person’s flexibility, stretching can also be a useful way to reach your weight loss goals. How? For starters, it’s important to emphasize that weight loss isn’t just about counting calories and hitting the gym every day. Furthermore, it’s certainly not about popping diet pills or living off
Considering a Ketogenic Diet? Are you considering a ketogenic diet to help you lose weight? Before you start a ketogenic diet as part of a weight loss program, or any diet for that matter, you should learn all you can about it so that you can maximize your weight loss efforts. The ketogenic diet started out as a treatment
By now it’s common knowledge that the key to good health is a diet rich in nutrients and low in empty calories. One of the biggest challenges to people living on the standard American diet is the fact that we are inundated with high calorie, low nutrient foods. This is a recipe for weight gain. Unfortunately, it’s become so much
As one year comes to a close and another one begins, it’s a time for reflecting on the year past and making goals for the future. Weight loss continues to be the most popular type of New Year’s resolution made by Americans. Unfortunately, setting a New Year’s resolution is not the same thing as keeping a New Year’s resolution. In
Weight loss is a challenge for just about everyone, and for those few who don’t have a problem staying trim, usually, their trouble runs in the other direction. But it stands to reason that so many would struggle to be slimmer because our bodies are optimized to live in conditions of scarcity- so our systems are geared towards driving us
Most people would like to be slimmer, and many people stand to derive great health benefits from losing weight. This year many people will enter a weight loss program with the expectation of feeling better about their appearance, gaining energy, fitting into their favorite clothes, and possibly living longer. There are a number of health and other benefits that losing