Health Articles: weight loss

10 Energy Boosters for Women

How energetic are you? Are you a morning person who bounces out of bed to welcome the start of another day? Or do you warm up more slowly, reaching a sluggish peak sometime after your third coffee? Most women find themselves somewhere between these two extremes, with many of us suffering from less-than-ideal energy levels.

Effective Weight-Loss Programs

There are hundreds of weight-loss programs that vow to help create a lean, muscular body with little body fat. The reality is that while most popular diets and programs produce short-term results, the majority of people fail to achieve and maintain their weight-loss goals in the long run.

Cosmetic Safety (8 myths)

How much do we really know about the cosmetic products that we use on our skin every day? Test your knowledge about harmful ingredients in our skin care products—you might be surprised!

Screen Time

Whether it’s for work or for fun, people are spending more time than ever in front of digital screens. But countless hours focused on a computer or an e-reader can take a serious toll on one of our most precious assets: our eyes.

Autism

There is much yet to learn about the causes and treatments associated with autism. A pervasive neurodevelopmental disorder, autism is characterized by impaired social interaction and communication; withdrawal and isolationism; and repetitive, obsessive, and/or infantile behaviours.

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Monday, September 30, 2013

Lecithin One of the healthy fats

11:25 AM

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Your mother may never have admonished you to take your lecithin, but this healthy fat is essential for the normal function of every cell in our bodies.

Lecithin directly affects nerve and brain function, fat transportation, and metabolism, and protects cells from oxidation. Lecithin contains a phospholipid called phosphatidylcholine, which is absorbed by the intestinal mucosa and metabolized to choline in the liver.

Small amounts of choline are carried to the brain, where it is converted to the neurotransmitter acetylcholine, which is required for adequate nerve function as well as for memory storage and retrieval.

Lose Weight with Weights

11:18 AM

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It is a widely-believed myth that training with weights will make you resemble Arnold Schwarzenegger or Sylvester Stallone. Women especially often shy away from the bench press and other weight machines, afraid of building too much bulk. In doing so, they miss out on a host of health benefits–better posture and alignment, osteoporosis prevention, strength and weight loss.

Huge, glistening, rippling muscles will not develop overnight, or even with regular weight training. Testosterone is necessary in order for muscles to increase dramatically in size–and women just don’t possess enough of the hormone for this to happen. Although huge muscles can be developed through training, even most men do not eat well enough or train hard enough to gain any serious mass. Bulking up is nearly a full-time job–one to one and a half hours, five or six days a week–and requires supplemental protein and calories.

Feed a Healthy Weight

11:11 AM

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If weight loss was a colour, it would be green. It’s no coincidence that green vegetables factor heavily in most weight and health maintenance programs.

Fruits, vegetables, and sea vegetables provide vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, and macronutrients (fats, proteins, and carbohydrates including fibre), as well as many other cofactors to keep digestion smooth, metabolism on track, hormones balanced, immunity strong, and detoxification steady. With obesity rates rising, a nutrition-based strategy to support disease prevention and weight maintenance is within our grasp: going green.

Lose the Bulge-Not the Carbs

10:57 AM

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Advocates claim that low carbohydrate intake will improve our body’s insulin/blood sugar balance, thereby fostering weight loss. Although preliminary research has shown slightly more weight loss over the short term with lower carbs, long-term studies demonstrate otherwise.

A recent one-year randomized study compared many of the leading diets, including low-carb diets and the traditional low-fat diet. It was found that all the diets were similarly effective at reducing weight and lowering cardiovascular risk factors. The traditional low-fat diet was found to be the most practical; therefore compliance was best with this diet.