7 Healthy Post-Conference Tips
Traveling for business trips or to conferences can really take a toll on your body. It's not uncommon to get sick with a cold or flu after extensive traveling. Here are some 7 tips to help you stay healthy and…
5 Nutrients That Help You Lose Weight
Taking a nutritional supplement becomes even more important than ever when you are trying to lose weight. If your body is not getting all the nutrients it needs, your brain will keep telling you to eat more in attempt to…
How to Safely Have ‘Fun in the Sun’
Summer has arrived and we can finally look forward to spending more time outside in the sunshine. However, the steady increase in skin cancer over the last 30 years can put a damper on ‘fun in the sun’ activities. Here…
14 Healthy Fat Fighting Snacks
Life often slows down in the summertime. The weather warms up and we find time to relax. It’s easy to get into a snacking mood. Here’s 14 healthy fat-fighting snacks for the next time you have the “munchies” and are…
How to Eat Out and Lose Weight
The key to losing weight while eating out in restaurants is easier than you think. A recent study published in the Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior, compared women who practice mindful eating in restaurants with those who didn’t. The…
It Pays to Take Your Vitamins
It pays to take your vitamins. Vitamins not only reduce your risk of disease, they make it easier to lose weight. Chromium reduces cravings, B vitamins help speed up metabolism and omega-3’s help you burn fat. In 2002, the Journal…
8 Foods & Drinks That Lie
Summer is the time when we often like to grab "fast food" on the run. Many of these fast foods say they're healthy, BUT are they really? We live in a society of "fast food" pretenders. Foods that pretend to…
Your mother was right…Breakfast is the most important meal of the day!
Skipping breakfast is a common occurrence in our society and is even sometimes used as a weight loss strategy. The truth is, this is one of the worst things you can do when you are trying to lose weight. Skipping…
7 Mother’s Day Gifts She’ll Love
Mother's Day is that time once a year when we honour the women in our lives who give so much time and energy to looking after others. Here are my 7 favorite gift ideas to give that special woman in your life:…
Spring Clean Your Body
It’s that time of the year where we ‘spring clean’ our homes, getting rid of all the junk that's accumulated through the winter. Have you considered the benefits of giving your body a good ‘spring-cleaning’ as well? During fall and…