Nutrition and Eating: Friends for Life

I’ll bet you’ve never even taken the time to consider what your nutritional needs might be, or the importance of that nutrition on your health.  Did you know that if the brain doesn’t get enough protein, it doesn’t develop correctly, or if the healthy female body...

Muscle vs. Fat and Your Energy Level

Right now, the greatest results in raising our metabolism come from exercise and building our muscle mass, while reducing our body fat.  Adding more muscle to the body, in turn causes us to burn more calories, and this helps to elevate our metabolic rate. What...

More Fat, Less Carbs

Over the last thirty years, food nutritionists and the food industry as a whole have embraced the idea of lowering our fat-intake.  This was a direct result of the information published by the government that encouraged less egg consumption because of the cholesterol...

Metabolism and Eating Habits

The body’s metabolism is a unique process for each individual person.  No two people metabolize food at the same rate therefore no two people have the metabolism.  We all use our calories at different rates, with different results.  Our metabolism, like our...

Men versus Women: Who’s Healthier?

Study after study has been done to determine the answer to this question.  Time after time, the results do not point to a clear winner.  Have we stopped to question why this is so?  Why is there no obvious choice between genders? The answer is simple, there are too...