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....
How-to Tone Your Arms Without Weights
It is a truth universally acknowledged: we all want toned, beautiful arms. But actually getting them? Thatβs another story. Sometimes you just donβt want to drag your tired body all the way to gym to stand in front of a weight rack, worrying that youβre going to drop...
How Can I Lower My Sodium Naturally?
Salt has become a major nutritional villain. Salt is everywhere: dumped into cans of soup, packed into meats, and swimming in salad dressing and salsa. From our packaged snacks to the food we order in restaurants, the modern American diet is saltier than Amy Schumerβs...
Drink Up! Water for Weight Loss
Youβve probably heard it more than once: βdrink more water to help you lose more weightβ. But does water really help weight loss? The short answer is yes. Drinking water helps boost your metabolism, cleanse your body of waste and acts as an appetite suppressant....
Cauli-Fried βRiceβ Recipe
Faux carbs are fast becoming this yearβs hot trend. If youβre not quite ready to get down with spiralizing, low-carb cauliflower rice is the perfect introduction to grain alternatives. All you need is a grater or food processor to knock up rice-like pieces, that can...
Why (Portion) Size Matters
Want to know the leading source of weight gain in this country right now? Portion Control If βwe are what we eat,β and weβre eating way more than weβre supposed to; it makes sense that weβre also weighing much more than weβre supposed to. So whatβs the problem? Our...
10 Minute Abs Workout
By now the majority of us know that a lean, toned stomach or six pack abs takes a lot more than just a bunch of abdominal workouts. The consistent combination of varying intensities of cardio, total body strength training, and a clean and healthy diet, is key to...