Calories in Cafe drinks may be derailing your best efforts to lose or maintain your weight.
As innocent as that afternoon pick-me-up seems, fancy flavored lattes and baked goods are loaded with fat and calories.
Soon, calorie counts will be on display to help you make an informed decision when you order.
The hope is that seeing the fat and calorie counts will allow consumers to calculate whether or not those extra 300 or more extra calories fit into their daily intake allowance.
Labor Day is the last big Summer holiday and three months of picnics, ice cream, and cold beers have derailed your best dieting efforts.
End your summer on high note by choosing healthy alternatives to usual fattening picnic fare.
Short of going vegetarian, there are many less gut busting treats to enjoy with friends and family.
Replace fattening appetizers and dips with fresh veggies and a handful of nuts.
And pass on filling desserts by opting for the end of summer’s bounty of fresh and delicious fruits.
Grilled chicken sandwiches are an easy switch from fatty burgers.
Find more menu swapping ideas to keep you slim and trim into Fall.
Some of us need no encouragement to treat ourselves to deep dark rich chocolate.
But for those of us feeling guilty when it comes to treating ourselves worry no more!
Stick to moderate amounts of high quality dark chocolate.
It is rich in antioxidants and flavanols which are good for your cardiovascular system.
Chocolate can indeed be good for your heart.
If you think that being overweight effects only the obese then think again.
Obesity is fast replacing tobacco as the single most important preventable cause of chronic non-communicable diseases, and will add an extra 7.8 million cases of diabetes, 6.8 million cases of heart disease and stroke, and 539,000 cases of cancer in the United States by 2030.
Some 32 percent of men and 35 percent of women are now obese in the United States, according to a research team led by Claire Wang at the Mailman School of Public Health in Columbia University in New York. They published their findings in a special series of four papers on obesity in The Lancet.
The good news is that drinking green tea can lower cholesterol.
Good because we can all do it.
Green tea is accessible and affordable. It also, makes a great replacement for sugary caffeinated drinks because it offers a lift with just a hint of caffeine along with cancer fighting, fat busting polyphenols and flavonoids
Advocates say green tea’s heart-healthy benefits are due in part to a large concentration of polyphenols, which block the absorption of cholesterol in the gut. But skeptics argue that any beneficial effect would be small, and the side effects from a few too many cups a day not worth it.
As part of a healthy diet and lifestyle, the benefits of green tea are hard to ignore.
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