Tips For How To Be Healthy And Live Fit
These days of complicated and restrictive diets in an attempt to stay or become healthy seem to be coming to an end. Evidence is growing that all we need to stave off illness is a simple good old fashioned diet. Learn how many grams of sugar per day is healthy, and let help guide eating [...] Read the full article
The ongoing situation with my youngest son’s seizure activity has prompted me to take a closer look at whether foods and allergies may play a role, both in my own health, as well as his. Why? My entire side of the family suffers from documented environmental allergies, so foods and allergies aren’t out of the [...] Read the full article
I have to say… my wife can cook. She’s quite the excellent cook, and its something she seems to enjoy. This is both a blessing and a curse for me. She grew up in a home where the men would EAT! I do mean that in all caps, too. When we first got married, she wanted to fix [...] Read the full article
Fiber gets no respect. The health benefits of fiber have been well-documented, yet if there is a single aspect of healthy eating that gets overlooked, I’d have to say its the consumption of fiber. According the the USDA, surveys on the subject of healthy eating indicate that the majority of Americans describe themselves as very concerned with fat. [...] Read the full article
At this point, we’ve established that, at its core, an individual’s weight is defined by the calories consumed, less the calories burned. Accepting this as fact, I ran across an interesting document, published by the USDA. It’s called the Agriculture Fact Book, 2001-2002. Buried within this document is a chapter titled “Profiling Food Consumption in [...] Read the full article
I needed to develop a diet philosophy. Making the assertion that I now had to learn about calories conjured images of diet fads and self-denial of foods that I truly enjoy. And make no mistake about it. I truly would miss my ice cream and cookies. I’m thinking to myself that there’s got to be [...] Read the full article
I completed a half-marathon. That means I traversed, in a period of just over 2 hours, a distance of 13.1 miles. I completed the training to meet this goal. To manage that task, I went from running 12 miles per week to 25 miles per week. I felt like I had really managed to accomplish [...] Read the full article
