Category Archives: Health Facts

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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Want to Lose Weight? Don’t Forget Your Immune System

Posted on October 1, 2011 by Greg Asseff

You’ve finally done it. You purchased a membership at a fitness center, you’re watching what you eat, you’re actually enjoying exercise routines, and you’re finally getting accustomed to your new healthy lifestyle. Even better, you’re starting to fit into that pair of jeans that have been collecting dust in the closet for years. And then you get sick.

Your weight loss progress is halted for two weeks as you recover from your illness as you battle with your immune system health, and you come out feeling less motivated than ever, returning to your old eating habits and dreading your next session on the elliptical. In order to avoid this all-too-common scenario, you need the think of immune system health as a crucial pillar of your weight loss program, just as important as sticking to your exercise routine and paying attention to your diet.

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Children of Obese Mothers have Higher Asthma Risk

Posted on September 27, 2011 by Greg Asseff

We have all heard the statistics associated with the increases in the number of individuals that are either overweight or obese. In addition, most individuals also understand that being obese increases their personal risk of developing a wide variety of diseases and health disorders, including several types of cancer, heart disease, stroke, hypertension, high cholesterol, osteoarthritis, diabetes and more.

However, many women may not realize that obesity during their pregnancy can also increase the probability of their children contracting a variety of diseases at a very young age as well – including asthma. In fact, a recent Swedish study indicates that obese mothers have a significantly higher likelihood of birthing a child that will develop asthma when compared to mothers that were of a normal body weight.

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Study: High Vitamin Supplement Intake Increases Death Risk

Posted on September 22, 2011 by Greg Asseff

It’s a commonly known fact that the United States is not only one of the most overweight nations in the world, but one of the most nutritionally undernourished as well.

Lacking the necessary vitamins and minerals in their regular daily dietary intake routine, many Americans have turned to taking vitamin supplements in order to ensure that they receive the nutrients that their bodies require to sustain various bodily functions, maintain energy levels and to ward off a variety of seasonal and chronic diseases.

However, a recent study indicates that high vitamin supplement intake, especially over a prolonged period of time, may possibly create more health problems than it alleviates, especially with vitamin supplement overdoses.

Overall, the study’s findings suggest that while vitamin and mineral supplements have their appropriate uses, the best way to receive proper nutrition and nourishment is still through regularly consuming highly nutritional, well balanced whole foods.

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