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5 Magic Numbers Every Dieter Needs to Know

Does this sound familiar? You’ve been watching yourself all week (avoiding junk, skipping seconds) and still, your weight is exactly the same as it was a week ago-or worse, even inched up a pound or two. It’s hard to remember that weight loss is a long-term process, you’ve got to stay patient. But I’ve learned that focusing on just your weight can sabotage your motivation. So instead here are five other numbers to think about. Keep track of these and your overall health (as well as your weight) ought to improve.

1. Waist circumference
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Weight Loss – 5 Tips For Success (For Men Only)

Weight loss: what works for women doesn’t necessarily work for men.

Compared to women, men rarely seek professional advice when it comes to weight loss. And if they do, they certainly aren’t going to be bothered with the food pyramid or counting calories. What works for men and what doesn’t?

New research from the Self-Help, Exercise, and Diet Using Information Technology (SHED-IT) trial confirms what family doctors have observed for decades.

Here are 5 tips that actually work to help men lose weight effectively.

1. Limit portion size. Have one Whopper for lunch instead of two. Eat two pieces of chicken instead of four. That’s easy enough to understand and fairly easy to implement. This change alone would amount to a difference of five pounds a month. Losing weight doesn’t have to be rocket science. Increasing exercise helps as well, but it could take two hours of walking to work off one Whopper – better to skip it in the first place. Continue reading “Weight Loss – 5 Tips For Success (For Men Only)”

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All About Intermittent Fasting

Intermittent Fasting (IF) refers to dietary eating patterns that involve not eating or severely restricting calories for a prolonged period of time. There are many different subgroups of intermittent fasting each with individual variation in the duration of the fast; some for hours, others for day(s). This has become an extremely popular topic in the science community due to all of the potential benefits on fitness and health that are being discovered.

WHAT IS INTERMITTENT FASTING (IF)?

Fasting, or periods of voluntary abstinence from food has been practiced throughout the world for ages. Intermittent fasting with the goal of improving health relatively new. Intermittent fasting involves restricting intake of food for a set period of time and does not include any changes to the actual foods you are eating. Currently, the most common IF protocols are a daily 16 hour fast and fasting for a whole day, one or two days per week. Intermittent fasting could be considered a natural eating pattern that humans are built to implement and it traces all the way back to our paleolithic hunter-gatherer ancestors. The current model of a planned program of intermittent fasting could potentially help improve many aspects of health from body composition to longevity and aging. Although IF goes against the norms of our culture and common daily routine, the science may be pointing to less meal frequency and more time fasting as the optimal alternative to the normal breakfast, lunch, and dinner model. Here are two common myths that pertain to intermittent fasting. Continue reading “All About Intermittent Fasting”

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How To Lose Weight At Home: 7 Tips You Should Know About!

Are you trying to reach you weight loss goals? Did you know you could make small changes to your diet and still lose weight? Let me show you how to lose weight at home.

The following 7 steps will help you towards your goals:

1. Breakfast

Don’t skip your breakfast. Skipping your breakfast could cause your body to store fat, increasing your cravings for junk food. Doing this will also kill your mid-morning cravings.

A great day starts with a great breakfast. Make it great by adding proteins and vegetables, this will also help you kill your cravings.

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Toaster Oven Quesadillas Recipe – A Sumptuous Dinner in Less Than an Hour

Weeknight dinners don’t have to take hours to prepare. Here’s a toaster oven quesadillas recipe that you can prepare in under 35 minutes. Serves 4 persons.

What you need for this quesadillas recipe:

2 cups shredded skinless chicken meat

2 medium green onions

1 finely chopped pickled jalapeno chili

1 1/2 cups shredded cheese (preferably Monterey Jack)

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Locovore – Eating Locally

“Locavore” was the Oxford American Dictionary Word of the Year in 2007. A locavore is someone who makes an effort to eat food that comes from his or her surrounding area. Some insist on food coming from within a 100-mile radius of their homes, others are less strict. What are the benefits of eating locally? How difficult is it to be a locavore? What resources are available to locavores in the five boroughs? This article will answer those initial questions and help you find the right questions to ask.

You may be thinking, “Isn’t most of the food I can buy in New York from New York?” No. No, it is not. The modern food system in America is built on the platform of cheap food. Most of the food in this country comes from huge assembly line operations that run like factories, giving birth to the term “factory farm.” These factory farms ship to locations around the world driving out small farms that cannot compete on price. A walk through the produce section of your local grocery store is like a trip to California and South America. The meat and dairy departments will take you to the Midwest. Purchasing seafood is practically a world tour. Being a locavore in New York takes effort. Continue reading “Locovore – Eating Locally”

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Freezer Cooking Benefits For Homeschoolers

Some people might think that the work of freezer cooking outweighs the benefits, but the truth is that there are some very good reasons to use freezer cooking. If you use the time you are already in the kitchen to prepare your freezer meals, you will wonder why you haven’t done more freezer cooking.

Here are some benefits of freezer cooking:

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Getting Your Kid Healthy: Top 5 Health Apps For Kids

Instilling a healthy mindset in your kids from the start is incredibly important; it can set them up for an entire life of healthy choices. Your children may develop their healthy mindset earlier than we previously thought! Recent research in the New England Journal of Medicine illustrated that a child’s “weight fate” is determined by age 5. Half of the children in the study that started were obese when they entered kindergarten were still obese by the 8th grade!

Most parents realize that it’s important to raise a healthy child, but it’s hard to teach them (or get them playing outside for that matter) when they are always playing on their phones or gaming systems (more than likely they is probably applies to young teens). One way to implement a healthy mindset is to use that technology to your advantage! Check out our list of 5 of the best free health / fitness apps for kids; all available for iOS! Continue reading “Getting Your Kid Healthy: Top 5 Health Apps For Kids”

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Home Remedies for Cats – How To Keep Your Cat Healthy With Tonic Foods

Tonic foods and home remedies for cats are a perfect combination. Tonic foods are power foods that will dispel any mental and physical lethargy. They will help your cat to recover from illness and keep it in optimum condition otherwise. Some tonic foods can be fed regularly while others should only be given every now and again when you cat is ill or as a treat.

Potent cat tonic foods include honey; apple cider vinegar; herbs such as parsley, stinging nettles, catnip, valerian, dandelion, wild garlic, clover, watercress and feverfew; spices like garlic, turmeric and ginger; couchgrass, kelp, dried fruits, yoghurts, yeast, oils, brown wholegrain rice and lentils. This article explains how to prepare and use some of them. Continue reading “Home Remedies for Cats – How To Keep Your Cat Healthy With Tonic Foods”

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Camp Stove – Primus EtaPower EF Trail – A Fantastic Stove For the Backpacker

What is the uniqueness of the ETAPower EF Trail camp stove for the backpacker? Let us take a closer look at five areas of this camp stove and why it makes an excellent choice for backpacking.

1. Backpackers look for compact size and lightweight in camp stoves. The stove weighs in around 27 ounces without the fuel. This stove may weigh more than some, but with the uniqueness of their own pot system that sacrifice makes up in cooking time and fuel efficiency.

Also, included with this stove is a pot gripper, windscreen, piezoelectric ignition, heat exchanger, burner stand, frying pan/pot lid, 2.1 L pot which all fits into the insulated bag. Continue reading “Camp Stove – Primus EtaPower EF Trail – A Fantastic Stove For the Backpacker”