Why You Should Use a Customized Meal Plan
What is a Meal Plan? In a nutshell, a meal plan is a planning tool that helps you answer the “what's for dinner?” question only once per week. With a meal plan at hand, you are not wrecking your brain over what to eat for breakfast,...
Intermittent Fasting for Weight Loss
What is intermittent fasting? Intermittent fasting is not a diet. It is a pattern of eating with intermittent periods of fasting and feasting. It limits when you eat and not what you eat, which eliminates the need to count calories while still losing weight. Some believe that...
Lose Excess Inches With These Shopping Tips
Healthy weight management starts the moment you step into a grocery store and the choices that you make while shopping for food. Here are a few tips on how to make smart choices that can help with weight management and prevent you from making impulsive...
Is Sugar Making You Fat?
We are becoming fatter and sicker than ever before. In fact, we have an obesity epidemic. You can’t blame it all on genetics though. Over the past 160 years, our diets have shifted towards eating more processed foods, processed vegetable fats, and eating more sugar...
Enhance Weight Loss with Apple Cider Vinegar
Apple cider vinegar has become quite popular recently. Just Google “Apple Cider Vinegar” and you will find over 90 million results. Apple cider vinegar (ACV) is made by fermenting apples with yeast to convert their sugar into alcohol. The alcohol then converts into vinegar (acetic acid)...
How to Tell if You’re Actually Hungry
Did you feel hungry just reading the title? Sometimes just thinking about food or hunger can make you feel hungry. There are many reasons why you feel hungry. The most obvious one is that you are actually physically hungry. Perhaps your stomach is empty, your blood...
How Women Can Maintain Lean Body Composition After Forty
Weight management is a common health concern for the majority of my patients. What I’ve noticed when patients go through my weight management program is that women over forty have the hardest time losing weight. Specifically, they struggle with achieving and maintaining a healthy body...
Ketogenic Diet: Hype or Not?
The ketogenic diet is a high-fat, low carb diet that has gained popularity as a result of its health benefits. Some of these health benefits include weight loss (yes, even with high fat), improvement in overall health and management of epilepsy in children. So, grab some tea...
Phytic Acid: Anti-Nutrient or Essential Phytochemical?
Phytic acid is a phytochemical that naturally occurs in plants such as legumes, nuts, seeds, and grains. The highest concentration of phytic acid is found in rice bran, wheat bran, wheat germ, almonds, and walnuts. This post will touch on health benefits and some of the undesirable...
Why Glycemic Index and Glycemic Load Matter
Both glycemic index and load start with a key word: "glycemic". It refers how much sugar is in foods, and more importantly how it affects your blood sugar levels. In general, diets that are high on the glycemic index (GI) and high in glycemic load (GL),...