Blog Category - General Health Page 3

Sep

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Busted: Metabolism Myths (and What’s Really Going On)

Your metabolism is the cornerstone to your weight loss success. Because of this, people are often quick to point the finger at their metabolism for stalls in weight loss or try metabolism-boosting tips and tricks that their mother's friend’s cousin told them about. Wi...

Sep

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B12 Injections: Benefits Beyond Weight Loss

The body relies on a constant internal balance of vitamins and minerals to function at its best. Unfortunately, today's standard American diet is high in everything we don’t need and low in the essential nutrients that we do. When trying to lose weight, it’s not...

Sep

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Self Love for Weight Loss: The Importance of Being Nice to Yourself

Would you look at your best friend and tell her that she's not good enough? Not pretty enough? Not thin enough? Would you tell your mom or sister or cousin that she’s terrible for veering off of her “diet” and that she should beat herself up over it and ge...

Sep

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Is a Calorie a Calorie? Not According to Research.

For years, nutrition experts have been saying that “a calorie is a calorie” - that as long as you were staying within your allotted calorie goals and exercising enough, you'd lose weight. But new research is showing that this actually might not be as true...

Sep

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Tips for Better Sleep

When you're feeling sleepy at the office, you might be tempted to reach for a cup of coffee and a sugary snack from the vending machine for a little pick-me-up. When the clock strikes five, you may skip the gym and stop at the drive-thru on the way home because you’re...

Sep

Does Gluten Free Mean Healthy? Let’s Break It Down

Gluten free is all the rage right now. Although it's estimated that only one percent of Americans have celiac disease - an autoimmune disorder that results in immune attacks that damage the small intestine in response to gluten – about twenty percent of American...

Sep

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Your Guide to Eating Healthy Out at a Restaurant

In a perfect world, every meal available at your favorite restaurants would be flawlessly tailored to your weight loss plan. Portions would be precise and chefs would only use fresh, ingredients, making sure to include lots of veggies. But we live in this world; and although many...

Sep

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Probiotics Versus Prebiotics

Last week we discussed the role certain bacteria in the gut play in helping you lose weight where we briefly touched upon the subject of prebiotics. Many of you asked us to clarify what prebiotics are and explain the difference between prebiotics and probiotics, which are more wi...

Sep

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The Secret to Weight Loss May Be in the Gut

For years, health professionals claimed that the only thing you have to focus on when it comes to weight loss is calories. If the calories you eat total less than the calories you burn through regular daily living and exercise, then you would lose the weight. Simple, right? Not s...

Sep

The Types of Body Fat — and Why They Matter

When you think about fat, you might not think about the types as much as you think “I just want it gone! ”; but recognizing the different types of body fat is important in determining your risk of developing certain health problems. While some fat is nothing more than...

Sep

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Watermelon: Five Reasons to Eat the Summer Fruit

Watermelon has become an unofficial mascot of summer. It's almost impossible to go to a picnic or a barbecue without seeing the juicy red fruit as part of the spread. You might choose watermelon because it tastes refreshing and delicious, but did you know that the melon als...

Sep

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Collagen: America’s Next Superfood?

Nutrition is a science; but it's a dynamic science. Things are constantly changing as experts learn about new foods, or about how old foods affect the body in ways that we may not have previously known about. As a result of this constantly changing nature of nutrition, it m...

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