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| Getting in Shape: 10,000 Steps to Terrific Health |
| By Tom Ogren |
Want a simple, inexpensive, low risk, foolproof method to lose weight, get healthy, and get in shape? All you need is a serious commitment and a $15 step-counting pedometer.
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| Exercise: Why YOU Should Do It |
| By Aaron M. Potts, ISSA CFT, YFT |
Millions are spent each year on diet pills, magical exercise devices, and misrepresented health and fitness products, when a good set of dumbbells and a brisk walk may be all you need to get in better shape than you've ever been in. Resistance training is as simple as moving your body under more resistance than it normally has to handle.
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| 7 Reasons Low Carb Diets are Wrong |
| By Charles Remington |
Our body is designed to run best on a certain type and balance of fuel. Unfortunately the latest low-carbohydrate fad diets are not fuel that our body was designed to run on. Low - carbohydrate diets can cause several health concerns over time. The Fat Loss Coach explains the top seven.
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| Review: Super Size Me |
| By Simplebean.com |
Do you need help breaking the fast food habit? Morgan Spurlock’s DVD, Super Size Me will definitely motivate you to rethink your next fast food meal. Following him through his 30 day McDonald's-only binge. You will see what the effects are on his weight, body fat, blood, cholesterol, liver, mood, and even his sex drive. Things get a little scary, but sometimes that is what we need to see.
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| Low-Carb Diets: Are You Losing More than Weight? |
| By Monique N. Gilbert |
The average American eats about twice as much protein than what they require. Some people, in the pursuit of thinness, are going on low-carb diets and are eating up to four times the protein their body needs. Many people are putting their health at risk by eating too much protein.
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| Weight Loss Begins in the Mind |
| By Oma Edoja |
You can diet all you want, and even start an exercise program. But it’s quite unlikely that you’ll keep it up, if you’re still thinking fat. Weight loss begins with thinking thin.
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| Getting F.I.T.T. Is Easy |
| By Lynn Bode |
For most people the hardest part of exercising is just getting started. Hectic schedules and lack of time certainly contribute to the excuses. But for many people, lack of basic workout knowledge intimidates them and prevents them from even getting started. An easy way to get started is utilizing the F.I.T.T. principle. This acronym stands for Frequency, Intensity, Time and Type.
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| How to Wean Your Kid from the Junk Food Joneses |
| By Phil Goglia |
Getting the whole family to eat healthy meals in a culture where some kids think that a potato chip is a vegetable can be a real challenge. We live in a culture where “the Joneses” our kids see every day on TV commercials and media ads are endorsing low-nutrition, heavily processed fast foods and soft drinks. But there are realistic, easy-to-implement strategies that can help you to gradually wean your children away from poor nutritional choices and toward delicious more wholesome foods.
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| How to Curb Carbohydrate Cravings! |
| By Kim Beardsmore |
More often the reason for the mid afternoon carbohydrate cravings is due to gaps in understanding how our body works and responds to diferent types of food. Read on to see what you can do to control those mid afternoon cravings.
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| The R Factors - Your Answer For Getting To The Perfect Body For Fitness And Health |
| By Robert Adams |
Building a Perfect Body for Body Perfect Fitness and Health Is just Four Factors Away!!! The R Factors!!!!
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| Five Fast Food Fixes |
| By Jennifer Reisinger |
Do you try to make healthy choices when you eat fast foods, opting for salads, grilled chicken and anything vegetable? Be careful, hidden calories and grams of fat can make your best intentions backfire. A little knowledge will go a long way in protecting your waistline.
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| How I Did It - An Average Person's Account of Weight Loss |
| By Jon T. Stevens |
Jon Stevens gives an account of successful weight loss. No "fad" diet or self-starvation, just simple determination coupled with a desire to look and feel better.
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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 Way to Eat: A Six-Step Path to Lifelong Weight Control
David. L. Katz
Dr. David L. Katz, head of the Yale School of Medicine Prevention Research Center, provides expert guidance to lifelong weight control, health and contentment with food.
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Nourishing Traditions: The Cookbook that Challenges Politically Correct Nutrition and the Diet Dictocrats
Sally Fallon
A full-spectrum nutritional cookbook with a startling message--animal fats and cholesterol are vital factors in the human diet, necessary for reproduction and normal growth, proper function of the brain and nervous system, protection from disease and optimum energy levels.
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Prescription for Nutritional Healing: The A-to-Z Guide to Supplements
James F. Balch
This book offers authoritative information about some three hundred fifty of the most important supplements available today. It covers how these supplements work, how to use them, and what to look for when choosing supplement products. Here is a straightforward, easty-to-understand guide to vitamins, minerals, herbs, phytochemicals, antioxidants, enzymes, amino acids, and more.
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Absolute Beginner's Guide to Half-Marathon Training : Get Ready to Run or Walk a 5K, 8K, 10K or Half-Marathon Race
Heather Hedrick
Here is an easy-to-understand introduction to the world of walking or running a half-marathon, or shorter race. Endorsed by the National Institute for Fitness and Sport, this book is packed with illustrations, notes on how to stay motivated and tips on how to train without pain. The author manages the Half-Marathon training program for the National Institute for Fitness Sports (NIFS) in Indianapolis, Indiana.
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The Joy of Weight Loss
Norris J. Chumley
The Joy of Weight Loss is the dramatic story of how Norris Chumley turned his life around, after weighing 400 pounds during much of his adult life. After trying and failing virtually every diet, he discovered joy and lasting happiness, with permanent freedom from obesity. Chumley counsels a sensible diet, taking pleasure in pleasurable movement rather than a punishing exercise regime.
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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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Fire Up Your Metabolism : 9 Proven Principles for Burning Fat and Losing Weight Forever
Lyssie Lakatos
The nine weight-loss principles and the 200 tips that help you incorporate them into your lifestyle are surprisingly simple things like eating breakfast before you get to work, and learning which sugary snacks trump others (peanut M&Ms boost metabolism, but Twizzlers don't). Experience not only dramatic weight loss but also the thrill of having more energy than ever before.
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