1. Drink water. People often mistake thirst for hunger, so next time you feel like noshing, reach for water first. Drinking also helps you feel full. Some experts suggest sipping water (or iced tea) just before you sit down to a meal. Continue drinking as you eat to add volume and weight to your meal. [...]

We’ve all experienced it before. You’re looking at the calendar and notice am important event coming up that you are a little less than prepared for. Maybe it’s a high school reunion, maybe it’s a wedding, or maybe it’s just an important date with a special someone. Whatever it is, an alarm goes off in [...]

Introduction We’ve come a long way from the days when one of the knee-jerk answers to the question “What should I eat?” was “You can’t go wrong with carbohydrates.” We now know that carbohydrates, the staple of most diets, aren’t all good or all bad. Some kinds promote health while others, when eaten often and [...]

Trans fats have been in the news lately because health authorities have identified them as being more harmful to our health than saturated fat and are recommending that we all try to reduce our intake of trans fats as much as possible. In this article we tell you the top 5 things you should know [...]

According to a new study from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, 9 out of every 10 Australian adults are living with at least one risk factor for cardiovascular disease. Among these risk factors, obesity ranks very highly among tobacco smoking, physical inactivity, low fruit consumption, low vegetable consumption, risky alcohol consumption, high blood [...]

1. Eat Soup Fill up on a warming bowl of soup when you fancy some comfort food. Increasingly, research shows that having soup as a starter helps fill us up so we eat less at our main meal. To keep calories down, opt for lower-fat soups like vegetable, tomato, carrot or minestrone, rather than creamy [...]

With the temperatures plummeting this time of year and day light saving ended, many of us tend to hibernate inside our homes. But, hibernating is for bears. As humans it’s important to stay active through all four seasons. Yet, a poll of 5,000 people found that 30 percent get no exercise at all during the [...]

Changing our eating behaviour is one of the critical lifestyle changes necessary to successfully lose weight and keep it off. For many people, changing old eating habits is one of the hardest things they’ll ever do, as anybody who has failed at dieting can attest.If you’ve tried to change your eating habits before and have [...]

Weight loss is faster when we enjoy good health and a healthy body. This is because our weight-related functions – like appetite, metabolic rate, metabolism of fats and sugars, and so on – operate more efficiently when we have an optimum intake of nutrients, like vitamins, minerals and other micronutrients. A major factor to overall [...]