A Diet For Life?

Nutritionist Carina Norris says “A healthy diet and lifestyle are the closest you’ll get to a fountain of youth.”

Remember folks, short cuts, fad diets and quick fixes will leave you changeless and possibly worse off.

Link Love: More health and Fitness Blogs Around The Blogosphere

Health and Fitness Blogs Around The Blogosphere
Hey everyone!
I wanted to share more health and fitness blogs I stumbled upon. I found these sites at Forbes.
It is nice to view other blogs on the topics I write about, or at least somewhat similar. I find it refreshing to discover new sites around the net to interact [...]

How to Control Your Cravings

The Reader’s Digest recently discussed ten tips to defeat and prevent hungry cravings.
Go nuts. Drink two glasses of water and eat an ounce of nuts (6 walnuts, 12 almonds or 20 peanuts). Within 20 minutes, this can extinguish your craving and dampen your appetite by changing your body chemistry, says RD’s “Health IQ” [...]

Warning! The Secret to Defeating Overtraining!

What is Overtraining?
Simply stated, when a people pushes themselves to hard without proper rest and recovery. This can occur with any workout program.

How do I know if I’ve Overtrained?
Normally, if your experiencing some of the following symptoms:

Lasting soreness and stiffness in muscles, joints, and tendons
Loss in training interest
Lack of progress
Problems sleeping
Headaches
No energy
Loss of appetite

Overtraining [...]

Ten Tips for Improving Fitness

Change always comes bearing gifts. [...]

Fad Diets to Avoid

Low Carb Diet

These diets reduce carbohydrate intake. But most people reduce both simple (sugar) and complex carbs (potatoes, whole grains, beans, etc). Most people make this mistake. See my article on 3 reasons why you should eat carbs

High Protein Diet

This diet is extremely popular [...]

3 Reasons Why You Should Eat Carbs

All of us see the signs! Less Carbs, No Carbs and even Low Carbs. The books and so called experts tells us to stay away from carbs. Friends advise us not to eat carbs.

People fail to realize why they need carbs.
1. Fuel for Muscles
Carbs give your body [...]