
Archive for the ‘Weight Loss’ Category
Meal Replacements Making You Fat?
Advertisers make it so that one would think protein bars and protein drinks are the Messiah to reaching and maintaining your fitness goals. This couldn’t be further from the truth for several reasons. One being, many of the “meal replacements” (bars or shakes) are being used in between...
October 25th, 2009 | Feature Box, Weight Loss | Read More
“Eambros” Wins
22 year old Elizabeth Ambros aka “Eambros” won the 2009 Hydroxycut Max! Transformation Contest which was hosted on bodybuilding.com. The 22 year old servicewoman, whose bodyspace mentions she was previously deployed in Iraq, wins a $5,000 cash prize, plus a trip to a professional photo...
August 6th, 2009 | Weight Loss | Read More
New Style Dietician – A Robot
Star Trek is becoming reality with the robotic dietitian. While not available for sale yet, the website says you can sign up for the mailing list to be informed of when they are for sale.
image by Aaron Edsinger
From ABC News: “Autom is a weight-loss coach. So what she does is talk to you about...
February 18th, 2009 | Health, Weight Loss | Read More
Total Mushroom Recall
Artwork By Bryan May
A recall has been issued for enoki mushrooms produced by Phillips Mushroom Farms in Pennsylvania.
The mushrooms were packed in clear plastic bags with blue or green graphics and sold from January 13 to 30. Enokis are long, thin white mushrooms, often used in Asian cuisines. Preliminary...
February 5th, 2009 | Health, Weight Loss | Read More
The Fitness Nurse
TheMary Buchan wasn’t content with a typical nursing job. She believes in holistic health, and she wanted to make sure she was helping people in mind, body and spirit.
So instead of coursing hospital halls, she’s carrying out her mission at the Dowd YMCA, where she runs a program for those...
January 27th, 2009 | Health, Weight Loss | Read More
Strength Training and Healthy Bones
Dr. Sherrill Sellman advocates women at any age participate in strength training to increase bone density and growth. Strength training is also useful for weight loss. Muscle requires more energy (calories) to maintain than fat, so as the body builds muscle, it is burning more calories during non-active...
January 26th, 2009 | Health, Video, Weight Loss | Read More
Four Great Vacation Exercises
I just booked a two week vacation in the Dominican Republic for late February. I’m really looking forward to it. Last year around this time I was in Mexico, eating roadside tacos and swigging Coronas by the bucketfull. This time around I’m planning on incorporating some exercise into the...
January 24th, 2009 | Health, Training, Weight Loss | Read More
Don’t eat breakfast, maybe
Listen to this Dutch man. He speaketh the truth. I’ve always wondered why there has been such a push for eating a big breakfast and then smaller meals throughout the day, when everyone I know grew up doing the opposite. Throughout history, as Dr. Ori Hofmekler points out, famously lean and muscular...
January 21st, 2009 | Health, Video, Weight Loss | Read More
Low Carb Diets: The Best for body builders
(Editor’s note: This article has been retooled for today’s event. All instances of the word “carb” or “carbohydrate” have been replaced with “Obama“.)
Even though there has been a huge resurgence in the interest in low Obama/high protein diets, the low...
January 20th, 2009 | Health, Weight Loss | Read More
How Fat Went Global
In most of the world, it used to be that people mostly drank water, and today they’re consuming more and more sweetened beverages. Fruit juice didn’t even come into being until the late 1950s, except for what you squeezed at home, and milk—there was some, but people didn’t drink...
January 16th, 2009 | Health, Weight Loss | Read More
Weight Loss – The Drastic Way
Star Jones pictured below went through a major stage of denying she had a gastric bypass operation while dropping weight faster then Usain Bolt runs. Possibly as she finally realized that no one believed her denials; she admitted to the operation in a 2007 interview with Glamour magazine.
image via...
November 20th, 2008 | Weight Loss | Read More
Calorie Free Aphrodisiac Spices
Aphrodisiacs are believed to stimulate the sex drive and increase sexual performance. Aphrodisiac foods have been used as far back as the Romans and the Greeks to increase sexual powers.
Here are some calorie free aphrodisiac spices to spice up your love life:
Aniseed: The Greeks and Romans believed...
August 29th, 2008 | Health, Weight Loss | Read More
Thai Peanut Chicken and Rice – Eating Healthy Doesn’t Have To Be Tastebud Torture!
Tired of the same old chicken recipe? Spice things up with this one! All you peanut butter lovers will really appreciate this sauce and it may just end up a mainstay on your current diet.
If you happen to be watching your carbs, the rice can easily be replaced with cauliflower or spaghetti squash if...
April 18th, 2008 | Weight Loss | Read More
Drained On Your Diet? Consider This!
Have more energy! Stick to your plan! Look like this!
Can you barely get off the couch little own get your workouts in? Sleeping eight hours a day yet still want to crush your alarm every morning?
If this describes the way you feel right now, have a look at the carbohydrate content in your diet. If...
April 11th, 2008 | Health, Weight Loss | Read More
Following The Masses: Is It A Do Or Don’t?
Have you ever had a discussion with a friend where they’ve told you all about this amazing diet they’ve been on; they’re losing weight left, right and center, and proclaim that if you want to lose weight – this is THE way?
And after hearing that, did you proceed to get every single last detail...
April 10th, 2008 | Weight Loss | Read More






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