Category Archives: Food

Tips for Keeping the Pounds Off During the Holidays

Posted on October 27, 2011 by Greg Asseff

The holidays are upon us once again, and regardless of what your family is celebrating, one thing is for certain: the next few months are sure to be filled with cooler temperatures, social gatherings and more than a few rich, high-calorie foods.

Experienced fitness seekers know that staying healthy and keeping the pounds off during the holidays can be as difficult as fighting the crowds on Black Friday. If you want to maintain your current weight during the holiday season (or, even more challenging expectation, lose weight), you had better take the time to prepare a solid health and fitness strategy.

The Holiday season is unique in that they often times produce increased stress and anxiety in meeting commitments at work and in your personal life.

For example, many companies have year-end goals that need to be met while, on the personal side, you have your “friends and family” obligations that must be met. In the case of your personal obligations, in many instances, traveling may also be required as well.

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Planning a Pregnancy? Consider a Mediterranean Diet

Posted on October 26, 2011 by Greg Asseff

Countless Americans and individuals around the world have adopted what nutritionists and marketers call a “Mediterranean style diet” – one that is rich in a variety of vegetables, fruits, whole grains, fish, healthy oils, and legumes – as a means of losing excess body weight or maintaining their current weight if it is at a healthy level.

Indeed, the Mediterranean diet is an excellent dietary lifestyle choice for individuals that are in the pursuit of weight loss, as it’s ideal for decreasing the overall total calories consumed per day while helping to ensure a well balanced intake of a variety of important vitamins and minerals. In addition, clinical evidence has even linked the Mediterranean diet to lowered risks of heart disease, diabetes, bone density loss, as well as other obesity type related illnesses, while improving brain function and health.

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3 Fad Diets and Why They Don’t Work

Posted on October 19, 2011 by Greg Asseff

Fad diets appear in the fitness and health industry with stunning regularity, promising unprecedented weight loss results with a few “tricks” instead of actual effort. Of course, there’s a reason why fad diets don’t work and are ultimately referred to as “fads” – they provide temporary weight loss results at best, and they quickly fade from our collective memory as new fad diets arise, once again promising fast results based on “scientific” or “medical evidence.”

At FitnessHealth101, we believe that the keys to sustained good health and fitness are simple, and have remained constant for literally thousands of years: consuming a balanced, nutritious whole foods diet coupled with consistently engaging in a variety of physical activities, and getting plenty of sleep, rest and relaxation.

In other words, the best approach to obtaining, and maintaining, your optimum body weight is through healthy lifestyle choices. This being said, below are three fad weight loss diets that attempt to ignore or subvert several of these core nutritional principles, much to the eventual disappointment of individuals that are trying to safely and effectively loss weight:

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8 Foods for Beautiful Skin

Posted on October 16, 2011 by Greg Asseff

From a more global perspective, beautiful skin and hair is a result of living and healthy lifestyle. More specifically, consistently living a lifestyle that is fill with plenty of physical activity, regularly consuming a nutritionally rich whole foods diet, and receiving plenty of rest, relaxation, and sleep.

The overall intent of this article is to specifically discuss a variety of different food types that are well designed to promote and support healthy and vibrant skin and hair.

When many health-conscious consumers put together their overall dietary intake regimen, they usually select foods based on surface level criteria such as total calories per serving, fat content, carbohydrate percentage, cholesterol, sugar, sodium, and vitamin and mineral content.

Although this is unquestionably a diligent and sound approach, many individuals do not realize that the various foods that they consume have a direct impact on not only their internal health and well being, but their external health and appearance as well.

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How to Eat Enough Protein Without Breaking the Bank

Posted on October 11, 2011 by Greg Asseff

For many people, creating a healthy dietary regimen can be a difficult balancing act with an assortment of separate challenges: healthy, nutritious food typically costs more than processed, unhealthy food, despite often looking less immediately appealing or easy to prepare when you open the cupboard to start cooking dinner.

To compound matters even further is the fact that grocery prices have risen by up to 4% over the course of 2011, with similar price increases expected to continue through 2012, according to the United State Department of Agriculture (USDA).

Getting enough daily protein on a limited financial budget can be especially difficult with meat already costing far more per pound than items such as vegetables, fruits and grains.

From August of 2010 through August of 2011, the average prices of pork and beef rose by 7.5% and 10%, respectively, making it even more challenging for the average household to receive their suggested daily values of protein in this unstable economy.

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