Diet and Weight Loss Tips

Boosting your fibre intake is good for your health. In fact, boosting it at breakfast may be the key to staying lean. This way, you use your body chemistry, not willpower, to curb cravings for junk food and get to your ideal body weight. Enjoying a fibre-rich diet, especially at breakfast, can reduce your calorie intake for up to 18 hours a day.

Sprouted seeds are packed full of healthy minerals, vitamins, enzymes, proteins and fibre and are incredibly easy and cheap to grow. A very easy way to get your recommended 5 portions of fruit and veg a day.

Trans fats not only raise total cholesterol levels, they also deplete good cholesterol (high-density lipoprotein or HDL) which helps protect against heart disease. Due to hydrogenation, trans fats are stiffer and harder than other fats as they are made more solid. The stiffer and harder fats are, the more they clog up your arteries.

It really is just as easy to choose healthy, low fat, nutritional foodstuffs as it is to choose the bad alternative. Trust me, you will feel better for it.

Ever since the independent film, Super Size Me was released, research on the relationship between increasing obesity and increasing portion sizes has skyrocketed and the results have been virtually unanimous. There have been numerous well-designed studies published just in the last several years which confirmed exactly what we suspected (and much of what Super-Size-Me suggested).