Category Archives: Nutrition

5 Ways to Eliminate Holiday Stress Eating

Posted on December 16, 2011 by Greg Asseff

With the holiday season fully upon us, two things are probably a whole lot more prevalent in your life: stress and tempting, rich foods. Throughout the year, and especially during the holidays, many dieters face the issue of stress eating.

When we consume food, our brains release chemicals called serotonin and endorphins that relieve stress and make us feel happier. Of course, these short-term gains in mental well-being, while reducing holiday stress, come at the expense of gains in excess body weight. The holidays, in particular, can be a troubling time for chronic stress eaters. Adjusting to the colder season, purchasing gifts, balancing budgets and making arrangements for holiday gatherings add plenty of stress, and we’re conveniently presented with tempting sweets and feasts that make it easier to cope.

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Report Reveals the Worst Sugary Cereal Offenders

Posted on December 9, 2011 by Greg Asseff

Regularly consuming a healthy and nutritious breakfast is an excellent way start your day. Several benefits include refueling your body, improving concentration, enhancing your mood, assisting in maintaining a healthy weight, to name a few. In other words, breakfast is the centerpiece of a healthy diet.

However, if you’re like millions of other Americans, you often start your day with a big bowl of cereal. Many whole grain cereals are excellent sources of nutrition, packed with vitamins, minerals and complex carbohydrates that provide a sense of fullness and the energy you need to make it until lunch.

However, not all breakfast cereals are created equal, and a new report from the Environmental Working Group has highlighted the worst sugary cereals.

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FDA: HCG Weight Loss Products are Dangerous

Posted on December 7, 2011 by Greg Asseff

Weight loss seekers, listen up: Today the FDA (Food and Drug Administration) issued a warning stating that HCG (human chorionic gonadotropin), a hormone found in some weight loss products, could be very dangerous, not to mention ineffective and illegal as well.

HCG is found naturally in pregnant women’s urine, and has been touted as the active ingredient in a variety of over-the-counter weight loss products that are offered in the form of sprays, tablets and oral droplets.

Seven HCG weight loss product companies, all of whom have received warning letters from the FDA and the FTC (Federal Trade Commission), sell over-the-counter products containing HCG, advertising them as “natural” metabolism boosters.

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Eating Fish May Help Prevent Alzheimer’s, Study Suggests

Posted on December 2, 2011 by Greg Asseff

If you enjoy eating fish on a regular basis, you will be happy to know that you are already eating a natural whole food that prevents alzheimers, and are actively taking steps towards preventing the onset of Alzheimer’s disease altogether, a new study suggests.

Fish has long been considered a “brain food,” or a food whose consumption naturally improves brain functionality. However, until recently, there was a lack of clinical scientific evidence to conclusively prove that this was indeed true.

In fact, the aforementioned study presented recently in Chicago at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America was the first to determine how eating fish might change the brain’s structure.

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8 Ways to Battle Sugar Cravings this Holiday Season

Posted on December 1, 2011 by Greg Asseff

With the holiday season fully upon us, the upcoming months will be filled with the temptations of sugary desserts, bars, candies and cookies. For many weight loss seekers and health-conscious individuals, this can spell trouble.

If you start letting go of your dietary regimen during the holiday season, the trend may very well continue into the following year, potentially erasing any fitness gains you have been able to achieve in previous months.

Likewise, you will want to regularly perform your exercise routine with as much consistency as you were able to in prior months. Even more importantly, is the necessity that you equally ensure that both your nutritional dietary regime and your exercise routine stay on track and as scheduled.