A Healthy Gut = A Smaller Gut
Consider this: Right now, as youβre sitting there, thereβs a battle raging in your belly. Some 1,000 species of bacteria are duking it out, trying to establish dominance. Why should you care? Because whether the good bacteria in your gut or the bad triumph doesnβt...
BMR: Why It Matters
Is it possible to lose weight if you stay in bed all the time and do nothing? Sure, as long as you eat just enough to stay alive. What is BMR? The energy needed for our body to function at rest, while doing nothing, is calledΒ basal metabolic rateΒ or BMR. It is the...
How Body Fat Affects Your Health
The term βbody fatβ is a familiar one. However, most people associate this word to obesity, cholesterol and an unhealthy constitution. Although excess body fat content can have severeΒ implications, the body requires a specific content of body fat for various metabolic...
Mermaid Workout
Get ready to feel like a beautiful, toned mermaid with this incredible TOTAL body workout! We designed your Mermaid Routine to target all the areas you want to tone up for summer, including your abs, obliques, thighs & arms. Oh YES!! What you need for your Mermaid...
Walk This Way
Even though some of you may be tired of peopleΒ saying this, it needs saying. We say this a lot because itβs important: you need to walk more. In fact, if thereβs one goalΒ everyone should make, it should be to walk more. Many of you made this the centerpiece for your...
Why You Should Choose Natural Supplements
As a part of the health world for over 30 years, weβve discovered one thing about supplements or vitamins and that is this: Β When it comes to supplements, natural is always better. Here is why: Mystery Ingredients The problem with many synthetic vitamins is that you...
Stress vs. Your Health
For most of us, stress is a part of our everyday life. Stress at home, stress at work, stress about our weight β itβs everywhere and no one is immune to the stressors that life has to offer. The problem is that when trying to lose weight, stress plays a bigger role...
Fat is Your Friend
When we say fat is your friend, we mean dietary fat (not body fat) of course! Since the low-fat diet fad stated around the 1980s, fat has got a bad rap. However, in recent years, research has proven that the science behind the βlow-fatβ craze is not only incorrect...
How to Make Almond Milk
Since 40% of the population isΒ lactose intolerant, almond milk, and other milk alternatives, have become incredibly popular. If you like the store bought kind, youβll LOVE real, homemade almond milk. Making almond milk is actually an incredibly old process. The...
Low Carb: Why It Works
The popular story of how low-carb diets work goes something like this: Reducing your carbohydrate intake lowers your insulin levels. Since insulin keeps fat locked into adipose tissue, lowering insulin can increase the amount of fat released to be burned for energy....