BOTH ARE TREMENDOUSLY BAD FOR YOU!
Diet soft drinks are addicting. When you drink them, changes take place in your brain that make you behave differently. Your body actually becomes addicted to the unnatural sweetness like it’s a drug.
When your drink contains aspartame, sucralose, or any other artificial sweetener, you over-stimulate your sweetness receptors. It [...]
America’s Obsession with Abdominal Machines
The multi-million-dollar home abdominal machine infomercial market absolutely amazes me and proves how uneducated most of the public is about fat loss, nutrition, and spot reduction. If they come out with one more ab-roller, ab-tracker, ab-rocker, or ab-cruncher I’m going to flip. If you think an [...]
MacDonalds, Jamba Juice, Chipotles, On the Border, Carl’ Jr., Bob Evans, P.F. Changs, Pizzaria Uno, Chiles, Outback, and Jack in the Box …… this video shows that even when you think you are ordering something “healthy” from their menu, you are very mistaken! It’s definitely and eye opener!
RICO’S COMMENTS:
Even the “healthy” things on fast food [...]
EXERCISE!
The Many Health Benefits of Exercise
Just as there are at least 20 diseases and conditions directly attributable to being overweight, there are a large number of health benefits that are directly attributable to exercise.
By improving your physical fitness, you can effectively:
Lower your triglyceride levels
Increase your levels of “good” cholesterol (HDL)
Lower [...]
Aspartame and many of the artificial sweeteners in most of our foods and drinks are poisoning the population. Most of us don’t realize the symptoms as coming from the ingestion of products sweetened with aspartame. Years and years of ingesting aspartame and other sweetened products are setting you up for long term chronic disease.
Some of [...]
Weight training’s many benefits are achieved by men and women of all ages who participate in it. I refer to weight training as the fountain of youth. It reverses the effects of aging. Weight training used to be associated with big, hulky, bodybuilders. Now, it is part of a good health/fitness program.
As we grow older, [...]
OBESE CHILDREN USUALLY BECOME OBESE ADULTS
Childhood obesity is associated with various health-related consequences. Obese children and adolescents may experience immediate health consequences and may be at risk for weight-related health problems in adulthood.
Psychosocial Risks
Some consequences of childhood and adolescent obesity are psychosocial. Obese children and adolescents are targets of early and systematic social discrimination.39 The [...]
The Importance Of Water For A Healthy Lifestyle
It is well known the fact that without water we die. Unfortunately, not everybody knows that a proper consum of water can improve our lifestyle. Next to oxygen, water is by far the next most important necessity for the continuous life of mankind. It’s the best thing Mother [...]
My mission is to give people information to take steps to become healthier. Most success in weight loss happens because of a strong mind-body connection and knowing the equation for health: exercise, nutrition and supplementation. Most people struggle because it is very difficult to radically change your lifestyle, diet and exercise level all at once.
For [...]
How Do You Feel About A Junk Food Tax?
Will these ads and billboards work? New York City has launched a campaign in an effort to get peoples attention and raise awareness about obesity. The ads show human fat being poured out of a coke bottle. It got my attention.
One 8oz soda per day for a [...]
OBESE CHILDREN USUALLY BECOME OBESE ADULTS
Childhood obesity is associated with various health-related consequences. Obese children and adolescents may experience immediate health consequences and may be at risk for weight-related health problems in adulthood.
Psychosocial Risks
Some consequences of childhood and adolescent obesity are psychosocial. Obese children and adolescents are targets of early and systematic social discrimination.39 The [...]
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