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Jumping on the Exercise Bandwagon
The jump to starting exercise may be easier than most think, but usually the hardest part is jumping off the couch potato train. Most individuals don’t even think of themselves as couch potatoes, as they are busy with a pressing schedule of...
Low Calorie Drinks (Part 2)
With the holidays just around the corner the calories from foods may add up to extra weight baggage. But what is also commonly forgotten is that the calories from drinks add up much faster than foods. That is because drinks are not as filling a...
Does Insulin Resistance Have Any Symptoms and What Is Metabolic Syndrome?
What are the Symptoms of Insulin Resistance? People may have Insulin Resistance for several years without noticing anything. But in many individuals, Insulin Resistance causes a wide variety of common symptoms we often attribute to other medical ci...
If I Have Insulin Resistance or Metabolic Syndrome, How Can I Make It Go Away?
What Causes Insulin Resistance and Metabolic Syndrome? The last 20 years has seen an epidemic rise in Obesity, Metabolic Syndrome and Diabetes Mellitus in the United States. Extensive research has helped us to understand that the combination of hig...
What is Insulin Resistance, Why Should I Care And How Do I Know If I Have It?
What is Insulin Resistance? Insulin is a hormone. It helps your body move sugar from the blood stream into the muscles and the liver where the sugar is used as fuel or converted into fatty acids that are later moved into the fat cells and are stored ...
Modern Day Life and Carbohydrates – Part III
Another measure of how processing has altered the nutritional value of foods is the increasing calorie density of food. This can be measured as the number of calories per pound of any given type of food. A shocking example of this is what happens...

