Articles for category: Dieting & Weight Loss

Dieters’ Homemade Iced Tea Recipes

In hot weather, an iced tea beverage can be refreshing as well as satisfying between meals or at any other time of day. Iced tea can also be lower in calories and offer more health benefits than cola or other commercially prepared soft drinks. Additionally, homemade iced tea offers other benefits not found in prepared ...

Chocolate Benefits Skin Health and Erases Wrinkles

Chocolate is delicious, and also quite nutritious, it’s really not fictitious, I’m telling you the truth. Health benefits are healing, the taste is so appealing, so here I am revealing, a fountain of youth. Chocolate for beauty That’s right the latest news is that one of the many health benefits of chocolate is wrinkle reduction. ...

Gluten Free Living: Wheat Flour Alternatives

One of the biggest challenges that you will have when switching to a gluten and dairy free diet is finding something to replace wheat flour. The gluten in the wheat flour is what binds it together and it is what gives your baked goods, especially breads, that light and fluffy consistency. The taste and texture ...

Why Marilyn Monroe (‘s Size) Still Matters

Original post on xoxoxo e A recent “Slate” article by Simon Doonan on Marilyn Monroe, “Marilyn Monroe’s Two Secrets,” aroused the ire of many readers for its hidden title, “Was Marilyn Monroe Fat?” Doonan claimed to know the answer (No) because he was on hand (as an employee of Christie’s auction house) to view some ...

How to Do the Master Cleanse Fast

Everywhere you turn these days, you are hearing about how people have toxins built up in their system that they need to cleanse. Many celebrities like Beyonce and Oprah have used the Master Cleanse Fast to lose weight or some variation of it. There are many products on the market that claim to be able ...

Top Five Low Carb Potato Substitutes

If you’re diabetic or following a low carb diet or eating plan, the thing you probably miss most on your dinner plate is a pile of mashed potatoes. The high glycemic index of potatoes makes them untenable on almost any low carb plan, but fortunately, there are substitutes. 1. Cauliflower. The simplest, and most commonly ...

The Density of Diet and Regular Soda

If you take a regular can of coke and a diet coke soda and place each (one at a time) into a container of water one will sink and the other will float at least generally speaking. This experiment is great for a classroom because you can try a wide variety of different products. You ...