Is eating FRUIT the same as eating CAKE?

Could eating fruit be keeping you from reaching you're fat loss goals?

If you're trying to lose a lot of fat or simply looking to lose those last few pounds then keep reading.

Let's start from the beginning:

We all know our body needs food to provide us with energy, but how does it do this? It uses mainly carbohydrates. Carbohydrates are sugars that your body stores as glycogen for to use as e… Continue

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Aloe Vera - The Wonder Plant

Over the last 20 years the aloe vera plant has been picking up speed in mainstream America as a plant of significant medicinal value. Numerous health and wellness benefits have been reported from both the scientific and antidotal forums. Science has proven the validity of many known benefits but there are numerous studies that are widening the benefits map, not to mention those not reported from various consumers of aloe vera products. L… Continue

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The Top 10 Ways to Relax and Achieve Real Relaxation

Copyright © 2008 Konstantin Koss

The body follows what the mind conceives. The condition of the mind often affects how the body performs, which explains why people who are stressed often suffer from accelerated aging and health problems. Unfortunately, with today's highly frenetic society, stress is something that cannot be completely avoided. However, there are techniques that can help avoid or at least mini… Continue

Added by Health Online on September 28, 2008 at 10:00am — No Comments

Bodybuilding Tips For Success

Body building tips are so abundant that you could fill a number of bulky manuals discussing all of them. On the other hand, the body building tips mentioned below are some of the more basic, but vital tips that looks to get left out of most body building magazines - both in print and online.

1: This is most likely the most basic of all body building tips but it's one that a lot of body building fans don't seem to get. Wear th… Continue

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How to Gain Weight

With all the issues surrounding obesity and weight related problems we often forget about the people at the other end of the spectrum. These are the people whose problems are not with losing weight but problems with gaining weight. Now you might ask why anyone would want to gain weight. If you are really thin, and lacking in muscle, your confidence and life can be affected negatively leaving you with little self esteem. Ask anyone who is really th… Continue

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7 Fat Burning Muscle Building exercises that must be your training program

There is one thing in common amongst these 7 exercises. They are all multi-joint movements meaning there is more than one joint moving to execute these lifts.

This also means more calories burned when performing these exercises because more muscle is being used.

Using multi 'joint movements allows you to work much more in the same amount of time. Instead of doing a Trice… Continue

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Exercise To Detoxify Your Body

When most people think about a body detox system they often think that the only way to work with this is through diet and nutrition. The truth of the matter is that detoxification can be greatly implemented by the use of movement and exercise; In fact, some people say that detoxification is something that cannot happen without it! Any way you look at it, you'll find that moving your body freely and with enthusiasm is something that man… Continue

Added by Health Online on September 24, 2008 at 8:30am — No Comments

Coffee-the Good, the bad, the ugly

Coffee drinkers have multiplied dramatically in the last decade as hundreds, actually thousands, of coffee cafés and coffee houses have opened up all over the country and all over the world. Arab traders introduced qahwah seeds to the world and the first cultivation began in the Arabian Peninsula around 1500 years ago. Sometime later the Turks served the drink to Italian merchants who then introduced it to Europe in the 1600's. The… Continue

Added by Health Online on September 23, 2008 at 6:30pm — No Comments

Benefits of Drinking Water: Healthy Tips to Start Living Better Today

What are the benefits of drinking water? You cannot underestimate the importance of drinking water in order to help maintain a healthy lifestyle. Keeping ourselves properly hydrated has a wide range of positive side effects and is vital to sustain good health.

One of the more obvious benefits of drinking water is keeping your entire body hydrated. Proper hydration allows your internal o… Continue

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Lifting Heavy Weights to Build Muscle

One of the main causes of failure when it comes to gaining weight and building muscle mass is lack of strength. A key basic principle when it comes to weight training and bodybuilding that should never be forgotten is the concept of progressive overload. In other words, you have to constantly be lifting heavy weights to build muscle.

A basic law of nature that applies in bodybuilding just as much as anything else in l… Continue

Added by Health Online on September 21, 2008 at 5:30pm — No Comments

How Does Stress Affect Your Health?

We know how stress can affect us mentally and emotionally. It can make us feel anxious and overwhelmed. It can make our tempers short and cause us to feel depressed. But how does stress affect your health?

When you are feeling stressed, certain stress hormones, like adrenaline and cortisol, are released into your system. This is fine in short doses. It can even be beneficial. But if your stress is prolonged, and these h… Continue

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Ten Reasons Why I would Recommend Putting A 'No Milk Today' Sign On Your Doorstep!

To a certain extent, it is understandable why many people think that milk is good for them. 'Mothers milk' was indeed the first food that we ever received: the loving link and the road to our survival... I, like many can remember my Grandmother saying 'How would you like a nice cup of milk?' Again the association of milk with tender loving care. Many of us, such as myself can recall i… Continue

Added by Health Online on September 19, 2008 at 10:00pm — No Comments

Good Nutrition and Your Complexion

Skin is the largest organ of the body, and of vital importance to our well-being because it is a barrier and protection against the harmful environment in which we live.

As the old saying goes, "Health is Wealth". So, it is always important to uphold the value of proper eating and living a healthy lifestyle to stay in shape and for optimum health.

In fact, aside from having an attractive body, being healthy ca… Continue

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3 surefire ways to reduce high blood pressure

You must be excited to learn some ways to reduce high blood pressure, but to start with, what exactly constitutes a high blood pressure condition? Of course, if you have seen a doctor and were told that you are suffering from this condition, then that is straight forward enough, but what about those that have not consulted any medical professionals?

High blood pressure is also known as hypertension and folks t… Continue

Added by Health Online on September 17, 2008 at 10:00pm — No Comments

Top 5 reasons why you'll never have six pack abs

If you have been dreaming of six pack abs and pumping out thousands of crunches a day in the hope of being beach ready then it's time for a reality check. Here are my top 5 reasons why you'll never get your ripped stomach:

1. Too much Sugar - Sugar is my number one reason why you'll never get your 6 pack abs to show. If you want that cheese grater abs look then you must keep your blood sugar levels balanced… Continue

Added by Health Online on September 16, 2008 at 12:30pm — No Comments

6 Secret Foods For Instant Stress Relief

Bad news is one common cause of instant stress. Relief is much desired at that point, but it's difficult when our minds are racing around the problem that just arose. Perhaps you just heard that your job is on the line, or that your bank is demanding full payment of your mortgage.

Stress is a common reaction. You wonder how on earth you are going to survive. You have a family to feed and other bills to pay. You nee… Continue

Added by Health Online on September 15, 2008 at 1:30pm — No Comments

Muscle Mass Building Workout - The Key Exercises

If you're interested in fast ways to build muscle and gain weight in record time, naturally you should ask yourself: "What are the best muscle mass building exercises to accomplish this?"

The answer is simple, but because the market is flooded with so much garbage all you hear or read about is either the latest supplement or "advanced" exercises. If real, solid, steel-like muscles are what you want then any… Continue

Added by Health Online on September 14, 2008 at 5:30am — No Comments

11 Tips For Injury Free Weight Training

Here is a list of some important safety tips that should be followed by all weight trainers. These tips can help prevent injury and help speed progress in building lean muscle and burning off stubborn bodyfat.

(1) Have a medical check up before you begin working out, especially if you have been living a sedentary lifestyle over the past year or more.

(2) Always warm up prior to working out. Most injuries… Continue

Added by Health Online on September 13, 2008 at 3:00pm — No Comments

Top 10 Tips for Weight Loss from a Psychotherapist

We see many clients who are having trouble controlling their weight, here in our UK hypno-psychotherapy practice. Here are my top 10 tips for helping to manage your eating:

1. Never eat while watching TV - When we watch television, or sit in front of a computer screen, we tend to automatically enter into a form of hypnosis. In this state our critical faculty becomes disengaged, which is why we can cry at… Continue

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The Health Wonders Of The Alkaline Diet

Note for those not familiar with the pH scale

The pH scale measures whether or not a substance is an acid or alkaline: An acid has a pH of less than 7. The lower the pH the stronger the acid. pH 7 is neutral. An alkaline has a pH of more than 7. The highest pH is 14, which is the strongest alkaline.

You are what you eat?

-This saying is not accurate. It's not really true either. However, what i… Continue

Added by Health Online on September 11, 2008 at 11:30am — No Comments

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