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These are my top three tips for longer lasting weight loss results. By using these tips, you could save hundreds, maybe even thousands of dollars on weight-loss books, tips, paid information, even diet pills, diet plans, and weight loss programs. And you will be a lot happier with the new you.

Eat 5 meals per day.

Make sure you eat 5 meals per day. That means having breakfast, morning snack, lunch, afternoon snack, and dinner. Ensure that in doing so, you do not over-indulge during any of these meals.

Eating 5 average meals per day ensures that your body is continually aware that there is food around. This information is processed by the brain as “We have food, therefore we can burn fat.” This will cause your metabolism to speed up, to allow your body to burn fat and lose weight.

Missing a meal, on

Craving for a treat you love while you are trying to resist it, is one of the most difficult things to do. A craving is an urge, almost a longing, to eat a particular food that you have not had for a while or that you are trying to avoid.

Last month, when my family went on a trip back to my hometown, I found myself craving for the snacks I have not had the chance to eat for a long time. They were not exactly the healthiest snacks, but I used to have them as a child and I remembered how wonderful they tasted and how I loved eating them, that they were too tempting for me to resist.

This is not an uncommon situation. A lot of the time, especially when trying to stick to a diet, we are

The 3 Day Diet is one of those trendy little diets that seem to be popular today. If you follow the 3 day diet correctly, you can apparently lose up to 10 pounds in just three days. That seems like a lot of weight to lose in such a short period of time.  Is it healthy or even possible?

While it’s certainly possible to lose 10 pounds or even more in just three days, it’s not the healthy way to go, and generally not recommended by health professionals. The 3 day diet is invariably frowned upon by nutritionists as being an overall a fad diet that is not very effective in producing sustainable weight loss. Sure you can lose 10 pounds in three days, but the chances are you’ll put it right back on again when you finish.

The

GREEN SMOOTHIE is a word coined by Victoria Boutenko, raw food expert and author of Green for Life. Green smoothies are the combination of about 40% greens and 60% fuit mixed with water and blended together to achieve a green mixture that is so healthy it can replace a full meal.

Very few people realize the amount of vitamins and minerals that are in a glass of green smoothies. Fact is a glass of green smoothies can provide you more bio-available and easily absorbed calcium, magnesium, Vitamin A, Vitamin K, and protein combined, than what you would normally get from your typical breakfast of bacon and eggs, cereals, or sandwich. Green smoothies also have more enzymes and fiber than the toast you put on your plate (even if it were whole wheat). Being that

Recently, as part of my studies, I attended a seminar called Inflammaging – Inflammation and Disease, given by Stephen Eddy the principal of Health Schools Australia. No, this isn’t a typo, I promise, and I’ll explain why. This seminar really hit home to me how we really need to look after ourselves better and how we live has far reaching effects on our lives and health. I want to bring this information to you so you can decide for yourself if this something that you could use in your life also.

But first, what is inflammation? Inflammation is your body’s protective response to any damaging agent, allergen or other irritant. The goal of inflammation is to neutralize the irritant, remove damaged tissue and rebuild the area. Chronic inflammation occurs when this response is not turned off, continuing to stimulate immune cells when they may not be needed which then damage healthy

We’ve all done it. You try to go on a healthy eating diet, but one day you binge. Maybe you go out for a big lunch with friends, or you’re feeling a bit down and missing the chocolate or you’re just tired and take away is SO much easier than cooking. Then you feel you’ve just lost the momentum and give up all together. This is what happens to a large percentage of diets or exercise programs, often in the first ten days. It’s why so many fail. So how do you deal with a slip without destroying all the good work you’ve done, and without giving up all together?? I think the first thing to do is accept that lapses happen to just about everyone. It’s not the end of the world and it’s definitely not worth giving up on your health plans.

Here are few strategies to deal with

I recently have been given a heap of pumpkins from a friends garden. Last night I decided to make pumpkin soup. I’m not a huge fan of pumpkin soup so I was looking for a new tasty recipe. At the bottom of one recipe was a note on how to roast pumpkin seeds. I was stunned as I have never thought of using the seeds. How often do we use pumpkins but throw out the seeds and never give them another thought. I know I do!

Pumpkin seeds are now a common seed we can buy in packets. These seeds can be found in cereal, some breads and health foods. I had a quick look online at roasted pumpkin seeds and the average price is around $5 a packet. But did you realize they are really easy to prepare at home?

The simplest and healthiest way to have pumpkin seeds is to

When creating smoothies or health drinks, we need to try and incorporate some artistic flair in the preparation, to ensure the whole family is enticed to have it. This is most important when children are involved.

While preparing our green smoothie for breakfast. The fruit combination I used were coconut, papaya, and oranges. When I finished making my green smoothie, I realized that I had enough papaya already cut up to make some papaya juice. I also had enough coconut juice left for a pitcher. I then decided to make it a trio of choices – papaya, coconut, and orange juice. Instead of juicing my oranges, I just peeled and cut them in half to reveal the pits, which I took off. Then I proceeded to blend them in my Vitamix with a couple of cups of water.

For those that love to

By Michelle T Jones

Yesterday was an extremely long day for which started at 5:30am and ended at 2:00 this morning. It then began again at 5:30, giving me only 3 1/2 hours of sleep. After I got the kids out of the door, I blended a bunch of fresh asparagus with 2 cups of water. I blended the asparagus raw to get all its goodness, hoping it will keep me up and energized all day.

At 12midnight tonight, I am still awake typing out this message. Needless to say it did work. Of course I had the rest of my meals today and fresh fruit and juices. But what is it about asparagus that makes it healthy for us?

Asparagus, or Asparagus officinalis, is one of nature’s very nutritionally dense vegetables. It provides high levels of folic acid,

By: Jane Stewart

First thing I need when I wake up in the morning is my cup (some may call it a bucket) of coffee. When I arrange a catch up with friends it’s for a coffee. Every time an article appears announcing that coffee is actually good for you I rejoice. I’m sure I’m not the only one, am I?

So – is coffee good for you, or bad? What is the truth? There are so many different views, research and articles about coffee that it’s hard to know. Maybe before we look at caffeine let’s think about everything that goes with that coffee.

The first thing to consider is what goes in to your coffee. Do you have full cream milk? Each cup of full cream milk cappuccino will see you consume around 75 calories. If you then add sugar you’re adding a