How to Obtain the Best Diet Nutrition Diets are all about cutting food out of our diets, but a “diet” doesn’t have to mean eliminating the good and healthy foods.  Throughout my years, all too many of my friends (and myself included) have gone down an unhealthy path of losing weight, which usually consisted of us limiting our food intake to an extreme and unsustainable degree – which of course... 

Will a Low Carb Diet Work for Me? When I decided to go on a “low carb” diet (also referred to as a ketogenic diet), a number of my friends on other more “traditional” diet plans went into a panic.  After about 30 seconds into their lecture, I realized that their concern was more a result of not knowing what a low carbohydrate diet was than anything else.  If you are thinking about going on... 

When it comes to weight loss, there seems to be tons of weight loss advice where ever you turn.  Every friend, neighbor and stranger has about ten tips that they can give you on any given day.  But if we all know so much about weight loss and how it should be accomplished, why are so many of us still struggling with the pounds? Taking any sort of “tip” or piece of information needs to be gently... 

Getting a child to eat a nutritious meal can be extremely trying on a parent’s patience.  Either the chicken you spent 20 minutes preparing is left behind, or the mashed potatoes you so lovingly whipped have become an art project.  Oh and there are the vegetables you spent forever chopping stay sitting on their dinner plate, growing cold.  Is this effort all for naught? It is possible to get your... 

What is the 1200 Calorie Diet? Admit it: you’ve checked out the amount of calories you’re adding to your body when you put that cracker in your mouth.  Maybe you did the same when you ate that personal sized yogurt.  Or when you decided to indulge in that chocolate bar after lunch.  We’re all checking out the calories that we’re putting into our bodies for SOME foods, but we’re not keeping...