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| Meet the New Look Ronald McDonald |
| By Alan Cooper |
In a television campaign just launched, Ronald McDonald rides a bike. He shoots hoops with Yao Ming. He even snowboards like a pro. The McDonald's-owned website, GoActive.com, explains how Ronald wants the best for everyone. And it seems that when it comes to what's best for everyone, fatty junk fare (described by GoActive as tasty, wholesome food) is just not enough any more.
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| When is a Diet not a Diet? When It's a Lifestyle! |
| By Brian Adamson |
Dieting and weight loss is almost certainly the most lucrative of all health-related businesses. Our waistlines are bulging, our health is deteriorating and the diet industry is making money! Unfortunately, most of their information is little more than propaganda designed to keep you as a customer for ever. It comes down to a simple choice - change your lifestyle!
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| Diet Fads: Supermarket Sheep |
| By Virginia Bola, PsyD |
Our weaknesses are being exploited by the packagers and the super store con men. Food labels are like those ubiquitous Internet sales letters. They trumpet headlines that catch our interest because they are in synch with our desires and goals. The food has not really changed at all, just the packaging.
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| The Truth About Omega 3 |
| By Dave McEvoy |
Studies over the past two years have consistently confirmed that Omega 3, a substance lacking in today’s “diet” is a key component in the brain’s development and proper functioning. Find out how essential Omega 3 is for your brain, and your body.
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| I Can, I Can't |
| By Jeremy Likness |
As a person reaches their golden years, they begin to lose muscle mass. You must train hard, and eat the right foods in order to maintain your lean mass. If you are having trouble with your motivation, just remember: It's not about the goals, it's about the journey.
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| Move, Move, Move for Greater Weight Loss |
| By Gary Matthews |
The key to effective aerobic training that burns off the maximum amount of fat is long-term consistency not intensity. What many don't know is that walking produces a greater percentage of fat loss as opposed to jogging or running. This article will show you the quickest and safest way to lose fat from the body.
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| When a Parent has WLS: What to Tell Our Chubby Children |
| By Kaye Bailey |
We know that children are becoming obese at an alarming rate. We know fat kids become fat adults. And we know it is the parent’s responsibility to make sure their children do not become obese dooming them to lifetime of disease, heartache and suffering. We can learn from a parent’s life-long battle with obesity and improve our children's weight loss.
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| Couple Of Easiest Ways to Burn Fat Effectively |
| By Chris Read |
Here are a couple of mornig tips to burn fat before an upcoming event like a wedding, reunion or to impress that special someone for your life. Whatever your fitness goal is these tips should be able to surely help you reach them.
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| Snack Ideas for Kids That Won't Wreck Mom's Diet |
| By Kim Beardsmore |
Many parents on a diet have trouble maintaining a healthy eating plan when the kids come home from school, or when they are preparing school lunches. Kids love snacks like small bags of chips, tasty bite size crackers, and sodas. Parents love them because they are quick and easy to throw into the lunchbox or for kids to grab from the shelves in the pantry. But they are not part of a weight loss program. Here are 20 snack ideas to stop your kids from sabotaging your weight loss efforts.
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| The Ultimate Weight Loss Red-Flag Guide |
| By Kenny Leonard |
There are thousands upon thousands of weight loss and diet web sites that prey on desperate overweight people, reaping billions of dollars each year. Despite claims to the contrary, there are no magic potions or effortless ways to burn off fat. Here is a little guide that helps set the record straight as well as provide you with red flags to watch out for when researching or looking for weight loss help and support.
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| Learning How to Become a Good Loser |
| By Charles Remington |
On a quest to reach your ideal weight? Are you very good at losing weight, but no matter what diet you try, the weight always comes back, usually with a few extra pounds? There’s nothing wrong with you. You’ve been on diets that are wrong. We don’t fail at diets, diets fail us.
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| Let’s Talk About Fad Diets |
| By Marjorie Geiser |
It is estimated that at least two-thirds of Americans are on some type of diet at any given time. Although research shows the importance of eating from all the major food groups, people are still confused about what type of diet to follow. Expect more quacky diet solutions to pop up. What makes a diet a ‘fad’ diet and why are these diets are something best to stay away from.
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| Simplebean Top 10 |
| 1. | Eating for Life: Your Guide to Great Health, Fat Loss and Increased Energy!, Bill Phillips |
| 2. | Eat, Drink, and Be Healthy: The Harvard Medical School Guide to Healthy Eating, Dr. Walter C. Willett |
| 3. | The G.I. Diet : The Easy, Healthy Way to Permanent Weight Loss, Rick Gallop |
| 4. | Body for Life: 12 Weeks to Mental and Physical Strength, Bill Phillips |
| 5. | The Omega Diet: The Lifesaving Nutritional Program Based on the Diet of the Island of Crete, Artemis P. Simopoulos |
| 6. | Food and Mood: Second Edition : The Complete Guide To Eating Well and Feeling Your Best, Elizabeth Somer |
| 7. | Your Miracle Brain: Maximize Your Brainpower, Boost Your Memory, Lift Your Mood, Improve Your IQ and Creativity, Prevent and Reverse Mental Aging, Jean Carper |
| 8. | The Ultimate Fit or Fat, Covert Bailey |
| 9. | Dare to Lose: Four Simple Steps to Achieve a Better Body, Shari Lieberman, Ph.D. |
| 10. | The Get with the Program! Guide to Good Eating: Great Food for Good Health, Bob Greene |
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The American Cancer Society's Healthy Eating Cookbook: A Celebration of Food, Friends, and Healthy Living
American Cancer Society
The recipes are low in fat, high in nutrition, often inventive; and follow the Food Guide Pyramid recommendations.
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The Get with the Program! Guide to Good Eating: Great Food for Good Health
Bob Greene
Greene, an exercise physiologist and Oprah Winfrey's trainer, focuses on diet with a wealth of sound information and helpful strategies. Greene starts with a cutting overview of destructive diets, including those popular today. Then, after reviewing exercise essentials, he presents a refreshingly sensible plan for nutritious, healthy eating, with tools for keeping intake moderate.
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Fats That Heal, Fats That Kill: The Complete Guide to Fats, Oils, Cholesterol and Human Health
Udo Erasmus
To prevent heart disease, cancer, and Type II diabetes, your body needs healthy fats. They also help reverse arthritis, obesity, PMS, allergies, asthma, skin conditions, fatigue, yeast and fungal infections, addictions, certain types of mental illness, and many other conditions. This book exposes the manufacturing process that turn healing fats into killing fats, explains the effects of these damaged fats on human health. Do not skip this book by an internationally recognized authority on the subject of fats and oils.
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Healthy Eating for Life to Prevent and Treat Diabetes
Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine
Establishing that diabetes is highly responsive to diet and life-style changes, these experts have transformed complex information into simple, easy-to-follow steps and 98 recipes that can help you lose weight effortlessly.
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The Healthy Pregnancy Cookbook: Eating Twice as Well for a Healthy Baby
Jane Middleton
This cookbook gives clear, reassuring and up-to-the-minute advice to expectant and new mothers on choosing the best foods for themselves and for their developing baby.
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Restaurant Confidential
Michael F. Jacobson
From the Center for Science in the Public Interest, this book offers all imaginable nutritional details about restaurant food, including meals available at mall eateries, fast-food outlets and family-oriented establishments, along with ethnic eateries from Chinese to Italian. It includes a practical list of the best and worst meal choices, according to calorie, fat and sugar content. Those desiring to eat out healthier will find this book useful as they plan their meals.
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Teach Yourself Visually Weight Training
maranGraphics Development Group
For those who recognize the benefits of weight training to achieve and keep a healthy body, the Visual Learning System breaks down the complexities into graphical two-page lessons that simplify learning. Inside you’ll find clear, step-by-step instructions for beginning a weight training routine, with tips on form, warming up and cooling down, and preventing injury.
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