I love yogurt because I love the calcium and protein in it, but yogurt totally hates me. I can’t eat yogurt without all the lovely side effects of gas, bloating, nausea, and yeah, sometimes the squirts. See Adding Yogurt to Your Diet? Watch Out! to see what I mean. Anyhow, since I love yogurt and ...
Thyroid Type or T Types, according to the “Body Type Diet” by Dr. Abravanel, are the naturally thin people who may gain weight when their thyroids get worn out by too much caffeine and sugar. Dr. Abravanel’s book includes a quiz that identifies whether you are a thyroid type, gonadal type, pituitary type or adrenal ...
Upset stomachs, or tummy aches, can be horrible. Often you can feel uncomfortable or even queasy for long periods of time without actually throwing up or having a fever, but it is enough to keep you from sleeping at night and feeling miserable during the day. Whether your upset tummy is caused from stress, motion ...
If you have seen the Dannon Yogurt Activia Challenge commercials you may have wondered if this product really works. I know I did. I’ve always been a fan of Dannon spokesperson, Jamie Lee Curtis, but never a big fan of yogurt. However, after being diagnosed with an ulcer my physician recommended adding probiotics to my ...
Introduction: As Healing Seeker affirms her declaration that it is safe to be slender, read her exploration of the health benefits of having a daily dose of 4 tablespoons of flax seed mixed with 4 ounces of yogurt. In addition, it pleases her taste buds. 29 October 2010 I find there is great power in ...
I’m a sucker for tasty, refreshing food during the summer, and I like top ten lists too, so here is my Top Ten list of favorite foods to eat during hot weather. They’re not in order because to chose a favorite would be very difficult, if not impossible. Ten: Watermelon I love watermelon. I don’t ...
I’m on a search for a diet I can stick to for just one week. This past week my experiment brought me to “Almased Synergy Diet,” a powdery protein that claims to “speed up and improve your metabolism.” Did I lose weight or did I lose my mind? I’m pretty much willing to try any ...
Activia Dessert flavors are probably supposed to give you the feeling of having Strawberry Cheesecake, Peach Cobbler, Blueberry Cheesecake and, perhaps, a bowl of vanilla bean ice cream. But are they smooth and tasty enough to trick my dieting brain into feeling as though I just came out of the Cheesecake Factory? I was curious ...
Yogurt has always been on top ten lists of super foods (simple foods that pack a nutritional power punch). Not only is it a great source of protein and calcium, but it also contains friendly bacterial cultures that aid in our health and healing. Now, Dannon has made yogurt even better. Dannon’s new yogurt Activia ...
I suffer from irregularity. I decided to try Activia. It is hard to go wrong with their guarantee that if I ate Activia every day for two weeks and wasn’t satisfied I would get my money back. Now, you may ask, what does “satisfied” mean? It means that I would not be constipated any more. ...
