by Sylvia Browder | Sep 9, 2020 | Featured, Fitness, Health & Wellness, Nutrition
Image Credit: David Townsend The paleo diet is based on the idea that humans from thousands of years ago were presumed healthier because they ate off the land as hunters and gatherers. Followers of this diet believe that eating a whole foods diet reduces or eliminates...
by Guest Blogger | Dec 2, 2014 | Featured, Fitness, Health & Wellness, Nutrition
Have you ever stepped on the scale in the morning and smiled because you’d dropped a pound or two? Or, upon seeing higher-than-usual numbers, blamed your unexpected weight gain on heavy shoes or the lunch you just had? Most women play some version of the scale game...
by Guest Blogger | Jun 24, 2013 | Featured, Health & Wellness, Nutrition
Trying to cut down on sugar? Maybe you’ve heard all the health warnings from doctors and government officials, or maybe you’re trying to look better in your swimsuit. Whatever the reason, you’re on the right track — Americans are still eating and drinking...
by Guest Blogger | Mar 11, 2013 | Featured, Health & Wellness, Health News, Nutrition
It’s hard to figure out how to really lose weight with all the fad diets and conflicting information. It’s easy to get frustrated with diets when you aren’t getting the results you want. Even though so many people want to make thing so complicated it is very easy to...
by Guest Blogger | Oct 3, 2011 | Featured, Fitness, Health & Wellness, Nutrition
Sugar is a name given to a class of edible crystalline carbohydrates, mainly sucrose, lactose, and fructose, characterized by a sweet flavour. In food sugar almost exclusively refers to sucrose, which in its fully refined form primarily comes from sugar cane...