Articles for category: Dieting & Weight Loss

Does the Insulin-Resistance Diet Work? Week 1

Not long ago I wrote an article on insulin resistance and how it can keep you from losing weight. I also mentioned a book in that article, The Insulin-Resistance Diet: How to Turn Off Your Body’s Fat-Making Machine, and how the authors explain how to lose weight using the “link and balance” eating method. The ...

Product Review: Yonanas Banana Ice Cream Maker

Freeze bananas and other fruit then run it through the Yonanas machine to create a fun and healthy treat made from delicious and healthy fruit. Ease of Use/Performance: 4/5 Convenience/Storage 4/5 Appearance/Design 4/5 How much I enjoy 5/5 Total: 4/5 Yonanas is a simple ice cream maker that uses frozen fruits to create a fun ...

Are Diet Pills Safe?

They’re everywhere – in drugstores, grocery stores, health food stores, convenient stores and of course, pharmacies and on the internet. Diet pills are being used by millions of people who want to lose weight and they are getting more and more popular every day. Americans spend a whopping 40 billion dollars a year on diets ...

Fizogen’s Blitz Cycle: Product Review

A forty dollar creatine-based bodybuilding supplement, Fizogen’s Blitz Cycle has a lot of competition in the market. There are a lot of creatine-based muscle-building supplements out there. So how does Fizogen’s Blitz Cycle stack up to the competition? Let’s take a look and see with this produc review on Fizogen’s Blitz Cycle. Creatine is a ...

Rules for Eating While Fasting

When you want to lose weight, you go on a diet and there are hundreds of diet plans available. Some are very simple to do while some can be quite elaborate, with special preparations and strict rules to follow. Fasting is a type of diet that you can do for one to two days a ...

Breaking the Caffeine Addiction

It’s often difficult to think of caffeine as an addiction; after all, we don’t see public service announcements warning us against its negative effects. The truth, however, is that caffeine is just as addictive as are cigarettes and alcohol, even if we don’t realize it right away. Breaking the caffeine addiction can be painful, but ...

The Asian Diet: Slim Down, Live Longer

“The Asian Diet,” by Jason Bussell talks about the “ancient principles of moderation and balance” that help people live longer and lose weight. I tried a version of the Duke University Rice Diet outlined in Woman’s World magazine for my five days on a diet review, and did not have a lot of success so ...

Walking to Lose Weight, a One Month Challenge!

This article is meant to provide people with a simple plan and motivation and see if they can see some positive results in one month, and if so hopefully continue to do so. I have tried and tested and seen what will work and also gotten many friends and family on this plan with positive ...