Category: Blog
-
Improve Your Overall Wellness With These Lifestyle Changes
By: Sheila Johnson of wellshelia.net Life can be stressful, and it’s easy to get bogged down in the daily grind. Between work, family commitments, and trying to juggle a social life on top of it all, it can be difficult to find time for yourself. If you’ve been struggling with your physical or mental health lately,…
-
5 Tips for Women Who Want to Lose Weight
By Diane Harrison of HealthPSA.info When you want to get in better shape, have more energy, and live a healthier life, one of the first things you may do is try to lose weight. Unfortunately, women often have a harder time than men when trying to lose weight. If you want your weight loss journey…
-
Study: Time restricted eating is an effective intervention for metabolic syndrome
Reducing visceral fat is extremely important. That’s the fat you can’t see. It’s the fat that builds up in your organs and will kill you over time. There is something called “skinny-fat” which describes someone who looks fit or healthy from the outside but has fat surrounding their internal organs. There are so many acronyms…
-
Onion Braised Brisket for Two
This takes a while to cook so set this aside for a weekend. The recipe is slightly adapted from the original I found online that used a 6 pound brisket. That’s too big for my wife and myself. When I buy brisket I buy it when it’s on sale and divide it into 2 pound…
-
Small study finds ketogenic diet benefits mental illness
The study is tiny. But, if true, I think it adds to the other evidence that human beings might be naturally allergic to carbohydrates. So many ailments seem to improve when on a low carb or ketogenic diet that it is getting harder to ignore the evidence. Symptoms of depression and psychosis improved in all 28 patients…
-
Study shows naturally lean people eat and move less
Researchers studied the difference between healthy underweight people versus normal weight people and found those people who are naturally lean eat less and move less than those with normal weights. The stereotype of the lean person that can eat anything they want because they burn it all off may not be true. The study found…
-
Is peanut butter keto friendly?
According to an article in Good Housekeeping 3 registered dieticians say peanut butter is keto friendly. In general, registered dietitian Abigail Rapaport Fay, RDN, says that natural peanut butter is absolutely keto-friendly. This is because they follow the ratio of high fat, moderate protein and low carb (and low sugar). Molly Devine, RDN, a registered dietitian and the author of Essential…
-
Creation of US dietary guidelines correlate with rise in childhood obesity
I was reading an article by Zoe Harcombe this morning where she covers why we eat carbohydrates. In the article she gives the year in which the United States started issuing dietary guidelines. It’s 1977 by the way. I had always thought the federal government’s involvement in the public school system, in particular the school…
-
New York Times reports no benefit to time restricted eating… but what did participants in the study eat?
The New York Times reported on a study in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) on time restricted eating, or as it is more commonly known these days, intermittent fasting. It’s important to note the study was also based on calorie restriction, which was left out of the headline, in addition to time restriction.…