Entries tagged as diet

Consider the various sources of stress that affect us everyday--amount of work, unreasonable employer, traffic, pollution, maybe even unruly children at home. The list may go on and on. It wears you down, and makes you look years older than you are. It's a reality where sadly, there really is no escape.

On the positive side, there are many ways to alleviate stress. Among these are proper nutrition, getting enough rest, exercise and supplement all these with daily intake of multivitamins.   Continue reading...

Good food! The joys of eating! Nothing quite compares. As the saying goes--you are what you eat. The problem with indiscriminate eating is your health suffers, but you already know that. So what we're going to present here is a plan on knowing and understanding what you eat.

You could compare this to going on a hunting trip--if you don't do some preliminary planning and fail to understand the environment in which you are doing your hunt, the trip could end up a disaster. When it comes to not planning and understanding what you eat, it's your health that could end up in jeopardy.   Continue reading...

How many of us have been on a diet at one time or another? Celebrities peddle their diet plans on TV as if it were some magic pill that you could take to shed the unwanted pounds and stay healthy. To be able to stay healthy, one must have the desire, and when you have the desire you need to take some action. But before you can take action, there are some things that need to be straightened out.

Some people think that dieting alone is enough to keep you healthy. It may work for some who have a kind of unique physiology but they are the exception rather than the rule. For the rest of us, it's a matter of dieting plus exercising.   Continue reading...