Hello Everyone. Today's article is a guest post from Leona Green. ----- If you want to have a healthier body, it is important that you eat a lot of vegetables and control your food consumption. Starting a fit lifestyle also means that you need to quit on junk foods like donuts, chips, fries, and a whole lot more. For some people, this prospect seems a little sad. Whether you are a fitness buff or not, it is really hard to prevent your mouth from watering once you see a thick slab of chocolate cake. However, did you know that you can still take some snacks, even if you are on a diet? … [Read more...]
The Key Components Of A Muscle Building Diet Infographic
When you're trying to build up your muscles, the foods you eat will have a huge influence on your overall success levels. Eating the wrong types of food will reduce your energy levels during your muscle building workouts and inhibit your muscle growth while eating the right types of food will fire up your energy levels and maximize your muscle growth. This infographic discusses exactly what you need to be eating to build up your muscles and outlines The Key Components Of A Muscle Building Diet. Once you've checked out this infographic, please Like, +1, Pin and Tweet it by using the buttons … [Read more...]
5 Great Ways To Stay Healthy
Hello Everyone. Today’s article is a guest post from Adam Howes. ----- The poet and writer James Leigh Hunt once said that “the groundwork of all happiness is health.” In France, they were a little more severe, with the Renaissance humanist Francois Rabelais saying: “Without health, life is not life; it is only a state of languor and suffering.” Oh, those cheery Frenchmen. However, both thinkers were very much right, and their words highlight just how important staying healthy is to our quality of life in general. That being said, good health does not just stop at the physical; mental … [Read more...]
Fitness Tip Of The Day – Learn To Cook
As healthy eating has become increasingly popular, more and more pre-packaged healthy meals and food products have hit supermarket shelves. This has led many people to believe that they can eat healthy without ever having to cook their own healthy meals. However, trying to eat healthy without learning how to cook is a big mistake for a number of reasons. First, many of the supposedly healthy food products on the market contain misleading food labels and are not actually as healthy as the product manufacturers would like you to believe. Second, even the highest quality pre-packaged healthy … [Read more...]
Fitness Tip Of The Day – Enjoy A Varied Diet
When many people start eating healthy, they make the mistake of sticking to a limited number of foods. While you're always going to have favourite foods, eating the same small selection of foods on a consistent basis isn't going to have a positive impact on your health. To get the most out of healthy eating, you need to be eating a varied diet that contains a wide selection of healthy, natural, unprocessed foods. These foods should be rich in vitamins, minerals and phytonutrients and provide you with plenty of carbohydates, fats and protein. The articles below list a huge amount of nutrient … [Read more...]
Fitness Tip Of The Day – Pay Attention To Your Hunger Signals
Many people eat far too quickly and ignore their hunger signals in the process. Not only does this prevent them from fully enjoying their meals but it also leads to over eating. By slowing down the speed at which you eat, you'll become more aware of your body's hunger signals, learn exactly how much food is needed to satisfy your appetite and eat less as a result. The section below expands on this topic and provides you with lots practical healthy eating advice that can help you lose weight and advice. So if you want to start burning body fat and improving the quality of your diet, have a … [Read more...]
Is Having A Food Intolerance Making It Difficult For You To Lose Weight?
Image courtesy of UrbaneWomenMag On Flickr Hello Everyone. Today’s article is a guest post from Yorktest. ----- Are you trying to lose weight, but not getting anywhere? Your problem might not be your exercise regime but your diet. At the beginning of a New Year, fad diets spring up as many people want to ensure that losing weight remains their New Year resolution. However, the key to healthy weight loss is listening to your body, exercising regularly and eating healthily. However, what if we are unaware that what we think is healthy is actually having a negative impact on our health … [Read more...]
Fitness Tip Of The Day – Add Vegetables To Your Main Meals
Vegetables are an excellent source of fibre, vitamins, minerals and phytonutrients. In addition to this, they're a very light choice, with most vegetables containing well below 100 calories per portion. However, the best thing about vegetables is that since there are so many different types to choose from, you can find plenty to go with your meal, no matter what you're eating. The further reading section below lists lots of different vegetables that you can add to your meals. So take a look, pick out your favourites and start adding vegetables to all your main meals today. Further … [Read more...]
Fitness Tip Of The Day – Focus On The Quality Of Your Calories
Many people who are trying to lose weight pay close attention to the number of calories they're consuming. However, if you want to stay healthy and accelerate your fat loss efforts, you also need to be focussing on the quality of the calories you consume. To do this, minimise your consumption of unnatural processed foods and increase your intake of natural nutrient packed foods. Natural foods not only provide your body with the vitamins, minerals and phytonutrients it needs to function optimally but many of these nutrients also stimulate your body's fat burning processes and allow you to lose … [Read more...]
Fitness Tip Of The Day – Cook With Almond Flour
Almond flour is a fantastic healthy cooking ingredient that allows you to cook up your own healthy breads, cakes, cookies and more without loading up on poor quality carbs. It's packed full of healthy fats, contains good levels of protein and also supplies you with plenty of copper, manganese, phosphorus, vitamin B2 and vitamin E. So if you're not doing so already, start cooking with almond flour and enjoy healthy, low carb versions of your favourite treats. The further reading section below contains lots of extra information on the health boosting nutrients in almonds. So if you want to … [Read more...]