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Basically the GI diet is eating foods that have a low GI value, when you eat this particular way, it takes longer for the food to be broken down in your body than it would do eating high GI foods instead.

Scientists have recently been wondering why this happens and think Read the rest of this entry »

Healthy eating is very much on the agenda at the White House, with Michelle Obama helping out at a soup kitchen which serves fresh foods, as well as stressing the importance of locally-grown, fresh foods in her own family’s diet.

The New York Times reported that:

As [America] battles an obesity epidemic and a hard-to-break taste for oversweetened and oversalted dishes, her message is clear: Fresh, nutritious foods are not Read the rest of this entry »

These days, many of us are more than interested in sharpening our skills at eating well without breaking the bank (pardon the pun). In our latest FitBriefing, “Eating Well- Recession Style,” we take issue with the idea that healthy eating has to be expensive. A bonus: Watching your budget might even improve your eating habits!

A couple of tips to entice you to read the whole thing:

Use what you already have. Read the rest of this entry »

These days, many of us are more than interested in sharpening our skills at eating well without breaking the bank (pardon the pun). In our latest FitBriefing, “Eating Well- Recession Style,” we take issue with the idea that healthy eating has to be expensive. A bonus: Watching your budget might even improve your eating habits!

A couple of tips to entice you to read the whole thing:

Use what you already have. Read the rest of this entry »

Don’t be to put of by the title of this post because this really does come from nature, itself and nowadays we do tend to work against nature rather than with it. What is it exactly that decides when we eat and went the best time to exercise for us is ?

Well you have to look inside yourself to find out the answers because that is where they are, we came into this world hundreds of millions of years ago as primitive Read the rest of this entry »

I had a strange dream last night. I won’t go into the whole thing, but I was on a passenger jet and we were forced to make an ocean landing. We all managed to get out easily (like I said it was a dream) and make it to a small island to await our own version of 'Lost'. (Apparently, I watch too much TV).

Must have been the indelible impact made on my brain by the miraculous USAir flight 1549 emergency landingin Read the rest of this entry »

I had a strange dream last night. I won’t go into the whole thing, but I was on a passenger jet and we were forced to make an ocean landing. We all managed to get out easily (like I said it was a dream) and make it to a small island to await our own version of 'Lost'. (Apparently, I watch too much TV).

Must have been the indelible impact made on my brain by the miraculous USAir flight 1549 emergency landingin Read the rest of this entry »

At Green Mountain, we’re not proponents of strategies to artificially reduce the amount of food we eat, to try to fool our bodies that we’ve had enough. They don’t work. Our bodies know when we need more food. Even when we try to trick it, the hunger drive wins the vast majority of the time.

It’s not our fault we don’t understand that. We’ve been taught that we can ‘control’ our hunger, but the Read the rest of this entry »

On A Weight Lifted, we often blog about women who struggle with body image, binge eating, emotional eating, and unhealthy dieting – allissues which relate to more serious and sometime life-threatening eating disorders such as bulimia and anorexia. Wouldn't it be wonderful if we -as a society – could prevent more people from undergoing the same difficulties?

The aim of NEDAwareness Week is to ultimately prevent Read the rest of this entry »

Cindy's taking some rare time down the first part of this week, but faithfully left this look at what we eat for me to post in her stead. Enjoy that massage, girl!

On average, Americans eat twice as much sodium (salt) as potassium, just too darn much of the stuff — and much of it unknowingly. Since convenience is king, most Americans still buy lots of processed foods which contain oodles of sodium. If you're Read the rest of this entry »