by Ashley Staker on December 23, 2011
The following article is based on that you are currently in “Maintenance Mode” with your Medifast Diet and are no longer on the 5&1 Plan… This is about making smart food choices each and every day. Food companies are smart. They understand how to package their products to fool you into thinking they are good [...]
by Ashley Staker on December 5, 2011
Say Bye Bye to Your Bad Carb Addiction Forever! Before you start on your Medifast Diet, you have to be smart. You can’t just start something without making the right choices. For example, you can’t quit smoking and have a year’s supply of cigarettes in the closet, can you? Of course not. Let’s be honest, [...]
by Ashley Staker on September 29, 2011
They say that home is where the heart is. But what you may not know is that it’s also where 65% of colds and more than half of food-borne illnesses are contracted. The things we do around the house every day have a big impact on both our long- and short-term health. Here are six [...]
by Ashley Staker on July 12, 2011
Think about it: Other than air, water, sleep and food, what is it that human adults need so badly that doing without it is as harmful to health as being an alcoholic or smoking 15 cigarettes a day? It is so important to your health that not having it is worse for you than being [...]
by Ashley Staker on May 25, 2011
Almost every diet book, nutrition guide and weight-loss manual includes the information that one pound of body weight equals 3,500 calories, and then comes the advice that for every pound that you want to lose, you must either eat 3,500 fewer calories or use up that amount with extra physical activity. It’s a simple, straightforward [...]
by Ashley Staker on May 11, 2011
You suck in your gut, right? Most people do. A new study shows that sucking in your gut could be having some adverse affects on your overall health. Take this into consideration … If you’re like most people, you believe that holding your stomach muscles tight not only makes you look more trim and fit, [...]
by Ashley Staker on April 7, 2011
While finding a cure for Alzheimer’s disease remains an elusive goal for scientists, at least some progress is being made in figuring out ways to prevent it, and here’s a promising new installment on that quest. It’s a recent study that connects some important dots in the search for how and why Alzheimer’s disease develops [...]
by Ashley Staker on February 12, 2011
You’ve experienced muscle soreness after a workout, right? You give it your all at the gym, on the tennis court, in the pool, and then, ouch. Well, here’s an easy, safe, natural and inexpensive cure that will mean you don’t have to treat yourself so gingerly, take ginger! Long used in traditional Indian and Chinese [...]
by Ashley Staker on February 4, 2011
Paul Mason (no, not the California winery), is suing an organization who has tried to help him battle is weight. Mason, formerly the world’s fattest man, is doing like so many in the world do today, blame someone else for their own problems. Mason, from the UK, stated that he was told in 1996 by [...]
by Ashley Staker on January 24, 2011
Denise Giesbers had been dieting for about a year when she noticed a reflection in a glass door. Man, that woman behind me looks stunning, she thought. Giesbers, 32, turned to compliment the woman, but no one was there. That’s when Giesbers realized — that stunning woman must be herself. Giesbers wasn’t the only one [...]