Nutrition for kids, children, pre-teens, and teenager is important – due to the significant amount of growing that is going on during this phase of their life.
Getting Help For Your Overweight Child
There are a number of excellent holistic programs out there to assist parents in helping their overweight child.
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Celebrities and diets are a common theme of many magazines and tabloid newpapers. Most celebrities are permanently under the spotlight, followed by a media obsessed with body image. Celebrities seem to have the ability to rapidly lose weight – so we wonder how they do it? A new diet pill, a new diet plan, or [...]

I guess we all know that obesity is at epidemic levels. It’s drummed into us from all angles. Isn’t it strange that we have the biggest range of low-fat foods available but we keep getting fatter?
Isn’t somebody going to stand up and say “It hasn’t worked”?
In the 70’s and 80’s we were told that fat [...]

Low Fat Diets have been at the center of weight loss for many years. This diet has stood the test of time, and with today’s prevalence of saturated and processed fats, a low-fat diet is still important.
However, low fat is not the answer for everyone. Many people have taken low fat diets to the extreme [...]

So, you need to diet. Maybe you think this yourself, or maybe friends and family have been dropping a few non-too subtle hints at your current weight. Whatever the case, you are not alone. Many people diet regularly to control their weight, but even so, the question of just what to eat or drink can [...]

There is an epidemic of “low carb stupidity” running rampant among millions of people throughout the world today – and fast food restaurants, food product manufacturers, supplement companies, and weight loss programs are capitalizing on it in a big way.
The low carb diet is not inherently stupid, however. It can be quite beneficial within certain [...]

Low carb diets have been around for a long time. They have recently become very popular (mainly due to the amount of press given to Dr. Atkins diet). There has been plenty of celebrity ‘endorsement’ and media coverage. Low carb diets come with their fair share of controversy given that the diet plans go against [...]

Over the last few years there has been a proliferation of diet books hitting the bestseller lists promising us fast weight loss. Most of these diets begin with what is called an induction phase.
This is generally a 2 to 3 week phase where the diet is drastically altered (not unlike popular crash diets). Diets such [...]

Diet Food Delivery Services
Home delivery of diet meals has been a growing trend over the past few years, particularly in the US, Canada and the UK. A recent survey found that more than 6% of US dieters in 3rd quarter 2005 were interested or participating in home delivery of meals. An increasing number of [...]

The Glycemic Index (GI) measures the effect of foods on your blood sugar levels. Eating foods with a high glycemic index value will raise the blood sugar level more dramatically than foods with a low glycemic index value.
Traditional thinking has told us that complex carbohydrates like rice and potatoes were absorbed slowly, and that simple [...]