Overeating is defined as eating when not hungry or past the point of satiety.  Most people don’t realize they are eating more than they need to until they become obese and suffer health problems. The majority of people overeat from time to time but it becomes a problem when it happens regularly.  Excessive eating causes a person to take in significantly more calories than are needed for daily functioning.  These extra calories are stored as fat, increasing a...

Everybody who’s ever dieted before has broken the routine by snacking. Truly, this in an inevitable outcome and will happen to everyone (myself included).

But if you’re going to snack, why not eat a healthy low fat snack? It’s a good idea that many people should take into consideration. After all, half a cheesecake doesn’t count as a snack anyway.

The first and most prominent, also the most important snack that comes to mind is...

Breakfast is known for being the most important meal of the day, yet studies show that many people skip it due to lack of time while others reach for sugar-laden breakfast items that could more easily pass as desserts.

For people who are living with problems resulting from a candida overgrowth , breakfast can play an especially important role in starting the day right by preparing the body to cleanse itself of bacteria and reducing annoying candida symptoms. Additionally, it can...

About the Alkaline Diet

Eating alkaline foods or starting an alkaline diet refer to consuming those foods and drink which have an alkaline effect on the body. This effect is based upon the ash residue that remains after our foods are consumed.  Some foods leave an acid ash, whereas others leave an alkaline ash. Conveniently for us, our bodies have been designed to categorize which foods leave which kind of ash into the body.

The Alkaline diet (also known as...

According to Wikipedia, Rennet is a natural complex of enzymes that is produce in the mammalian stomach for purposes of mild digestion. Rennet is often used in the production of cheese. It contains many enzymes, including proteolytic enzyme (protease) that coagulates milk and causes it to separate into solids known as curds and liquid known as whey. The active enzyme in rennet is called chymosin or renin but there is alos other important enzymes in Rennet.
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It's the dreaded time of year again when everyone is getting ready for the nice days of summer and you look into your wardrobe for that ideal dress you had last year. However, realisation begins to set in when you notice that those last few Christmas pounds still havn't shifted. It may be time to look for alow carb dietor aweight loss planthat really works.

Easier said than done perhaps – there are so many plans out there and so many success stories. Which one is right for...

Summer tends to be the time of year when you find yourself doing much more – meeting friends for a quick drink after work, going to the park with friends, eating at your favourite cafe because the sun is out. However, you may think all this running about is going to help yourweight lossideas, but you may find yourself not having enough time to properly plan and prepare your meals – meaning more calories and more beach-dread!

Trying to keep to alow carb dietin...

Even before the rise of civilization and the improvement of culinary arts, beans have been a natural staple to our early ancestors. Recent studies show that beans and legumes are indeed miracle plants that provide enough nutrients to give the human body a healthy boost in both energy and immunity.

Legumes can take in large amounts of oxygen in the air and convert it into protein found in seeds. Beans used to be called "poor man's meat" which can be bought in large...

LEARN 13 REASONS WHY PROTEIN IS SO IMPORTANT IN OUR NORMAL DAILY DIET & WHY IT IS ESPECIALLY IMPORTANT WHEN LOSING WEIGHT!!

People use protein for many different reasons, in fact most people automatically associate increasing their protein with ending up looking like a ‘body builder or muscle man' which isn't what most people want to achieve.  Yes body builders do use protein to the extreme to totally change the look of their bodies and to repair and rebuild their...

A good lifestyle leads to a good health that will give you an energetic body and clear mind. But keeping a healthy lifestyle would be very hard to achieve with the uncontrolled pollution in our environment and unnecessary application of chemicals in the food industry. Thus, there is a need to have awareness on safety precautions to prevent the occurrence of disorders and it is better to incorporate a healthy diet to reduce the absorption and intake of harmful toxins that can cause the...