Weight Management
Rising Obesity Rates Are Affecting Fertility
As Charles Darwin noted, the process of evolution can happen fairly quickly, or take generations to work itself out. And throughout the eons of history, there have often been overlapping evolving species of humans co-existing on the planet for long periods of time. While weve ...
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Avoiding The Freshman 15
Starting university can be very overwhelming. You’re faced with new friends, new classes, new dorm room, and the dreaded “Freshman 15.” Many students find themselves gaining weight in their first year away from home for many reasons. The challenge of new classes, peer ...
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Portion Control for Weight Control
You’re eating healthy meals and snacks and exercising regularly, so why isn’t the extra weight coming off faster? Your portion sizes might be the reason?even if your diet is healthy. Yes, you can have too much of a good thing. Monitoring your portion sizes can help ...
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Is Your Sleep Affecting Your Weight?
If you think that sleep deprivation isn’t affecting your weight, you’re dreaming.Ask a room full of people what the standard recommendation for sleep is, and you’re likely to hear, “Eight hours, but I need nine.” But over the past 40 years, the sleep duration of Americans...
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There's Still Time To Get Fit For Summer
If those last few pounds aren’t coming off fast enough, before you convince yourself that you won’t mind wearing long pants all summer, try these effective weight loss and fitness techniques. They’ll help you get into tip top shape fast!Eat dinner earlyYour body need...
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How To Slim Down For Summer
Do you love summer weather, but dread feeling self-conscious and uncomfortable when it is time to hit the beach? Start here with a positive mindset and these secrets to making this your best beach year yet.We know it feels like just yesterday you were ringing in the...
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Weight Maintenance and Menopause
As many women enter perimenopause we experience unexplained weight gain, especially around the waist and hips, despite our best attempts to diet. What worked for us in the past is suddenly ineffective. In fact, weight gain in the abdomen is one of the most common complai...
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It's A New Year! Dieting Do's and Don'ts
At the start of each New Year we provide advice and inspiration for those resolving to shed a few pounds. This year we’re revealing our favorite list of dieting do’s and don’ts:Don’t... skimp on protein at breakfast.About 20 grams of protein eaten at breakfast helps ...
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The Naturopathic Way to Lose Weight
According to the World Health Organization, there are more than one billion overweight people in the world, with at least 300 million of them struggling with obesity. In the United States alone, it is estimated that 50% of Americans are overweight with approximately 13% strug...
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8 Tips to Avoid Summer Party Weight Gain
Why do we love summer so much? Could it be the hot lazy days, the bright skies, the time spent outdoors running, cycling or playing tennis? Or, could it be the food? Yes, the food. It could, quite possibly, be the food.Summer is the season of picnics, bbqs and social even...
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Lose Weight & Feel Great this Summer
Looking for a way to slim down so you can fit into that bikini? Healthy weight loss isn't easy, mostly because it requires significant lifestyle changes. But it is possible, and it's worth it in the long run. The basic principle of weight loss remains calories in versu...
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Herbs for Weight Loss
In today's fast paced world men have become more sedentary and unfortunately put on a few extra pounds. If you’re like most men you will find that those extra pounds have found a "home on your belly", and you just can't seem to remove them! Once and for ...
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The middle-age spread & how to avoid it
A common issue I hear from clients trying to lose weight pertains to the so-called ‘middle age spread’. “It’s not my fault I can’t lose weight” they say. “I’m getting older and my waist, hips and thighs refuse to get slimmer.”Is it true?Based on the following fa...
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Effective Weight Loss Methods
Losing weight can be hard. Here are a few key steps that will help make shedding those extra pounds much easier and healthier. Exercise A great way to start your day is with exercise and it is one of the most effective ways of losing weight. There are many forms of exercise ...
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Healthy Weight Loss-Part2
Here are some quick and easy ways to help you slim down. These little changes add up to losing weight and a healthier you! Kick the Sugar Habit According to Dr. Robert Atkins, sugar is the "quintessential anti-nutrient". It contains no vitamins or minerals. Rather, it...
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Healthy Weight Loss-Part 1
As we get closer to another new year, many of us will make the obligatory resolution to be healthier and happier, which usually includes losing weight. This year see your resolution through to its conclusion. Make this your thinner, happier and healthier year!Approxi...
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Weight Loss on a Busy Schedule
When discussing weight loss techniques in seminars or in private practice, one of the most frequent excuses I hear from people is that they’re too busy or it’s too difficult to eat healthier. Time may be short for most of us, yes. But throughout my years of teaching ...
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Secrets to Burning Fat Faster-Part 2
In Part One of this article, we discussed tricks and tips, such as reading the ingredient list of products when shopping, to help you say goodbye to your weight loss plateau. Here are some more tips to help you burn fat faster: Learn good sugars vs. bad sugars Eating refined su...
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Secrets to Burning Fat Faster -Part I
As a trainer, I have come across many clients not seeing the results they strive for. They work out several times a week with plenty of cardio and can feel their muscles getting stronger but for some reason, they are not experiencing their desired leanness. This seems to ...
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How to get Your Best Body Ever
Getting your best body is easier than you think! To begin, your number one priority should always be your health followed by the appearance of your body. Getting your best body ever is actually a side effect of good health and when you make that mental shift, everything change...
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Sugar, Sugar Everywhere!
When I was a young girl, I can remember there being only one kid in my elementary school who was overweight. Truthfully, he was obese. Even after all these years, I can still remember his face. In the years since, I have often thought of him and wondered if he ever shed t...
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Lose the Weight Without the Crash Diet
Summer: The season of sun, fun, beaches ... and crash diets.Despite warnings about extreme methods of weight loss—headaches, dizziness and weakness, followed by a slowed metabolism, reduced muscle mass and fast weight gain—if last years bathing suit is feeling a little sn...
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Battling the Belly During Bikini Season
We would all love to fit into an itsy, bitsy bikini, but it gets frustrating when all those crunches dont even create a hint of a six-pack.There is no such thing as ‘spot reduction’ – fat or size reduction from a specific body part - but that doesn’t stop most of us ...
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Calorie Q&A
As the nicer weather approaches, many are reconsidering their weight loss strategies. While we know there is no such thing as a quick fix that amounts to permanent weight reduction, there are right and wrong approaches. The right approaches involve replacing unnecessary c...
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Fiber and Weight Loss
Spring is here, and your thoughts start to turn to losing weight and shaping up. You’ve just gone through your closet for that special summer outfit, you’ve started your exercise program, but there’s still the question of diet: what can you do to help lose the cravings an...
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Lose the Toxins before you Lose the Weight
Consider the impact toxins have on weight loss before you start losing weight. Toxins are chemicals that harm the body’s cells, organs, and functions. Toxins exist externally in polluted air, water, alcohol, medications, food additives, and household chemicals. The body a...
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Naturally Savvy's Mindful Tips For Weight Loss
The participants of The Naturally Savvy Weight Loss Challenge experienced how to meditate and breathe deeply with help from Caroline Dupont, our Meditation Expert. To learn about incorporating meditation into your weight loss routine, watch Part 1 of The Naturally Savvy W...
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Naturally Savvy's Nutritrion Tips For Weight Loss
The partcipants of The Naturally Savvy Weight Loss Challenge have all received a consultation from Lisa Tsakos, R.N.C.P, on HOW to lose weight in an efficient and healthy manner. For some natural products to assist with your weight loss, watch Part 1 of The Naturall...
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The Naturally Savvy Weight Loss Menu Guide
This is Naturally Savvys First Weight Loss Challenge! Although a menu has been customized for each participant based on a nutritional consultation to identify health concerns, nutrient deficiencies, allergies, likes and dislikes, among other considerations, there ar...
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Balancing Blood Sugar Levels with PGX Daily
Imbalances in blood sugar are often the cause of cravings and obesity. Taking Natural Factors PGX with food can reduce a meal’s glycemic index by up to 50% and helps restore insulin sensitivity. Incorporating PGX Daily into your diet can help you lose weight safely and gradually...
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Bach Emotional Eating Support Kit
Many of us eat mindlessly to feed our feelings instead of our body. 75% of overeating is triggered by our emotions – depression, stress, or even boredom can trigger compulsive eating. Bach Emotional Eating Support Kit contains three flower remedies that address emotional eating....
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Quality Protein Powder: Make Your Own Shake
Protein powders are a convenient way to introduce more protein to one’s diet. Typically made from whey (dairy), egg, soy, rice, or hemp protein, formula preparations often include other ingredients like digestive enzymes and sweeteners.A protein shake can be made quickly with a ...
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Supplements for Weight Loss & Overall Health
Your multivitamin can contribute to a healthy weight! Multi+Daily Trim from Genuine Health is a complete, high potency multi-vitamin/mineral formula enhanced with green tea extract to promote weight loss, increase metabolism, and reduce fat, especially fat stored in the mid-sec...
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Healthy Sugar & Salt Substitutes
HealthESweet™is a safe all-natural substitute for sugar. Measuring spoon for spoon like sugar, it can be used anywhere regular sugar is used, for baking, desserts, and beverages. Healthesweet™ contains a unique complex of natural healthy, non-glycemic sweeteners: tagatose, an e...
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Whole Grain Cereal: Weetabix
Whole grains are a good source of fiber, which is important for bowel regularity and overall health.Organic Weetabix Whole Grain Cereal has only 1 gram of fat and 4 grams of fiber and protein per serving. Organic Weetabix makes a great healthy breakfast or mid-mornin...
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Waisting-Away
If you are like most people, you have started the New Year with a new diet (probably the same diet you tried unsuccessfully this time last year). Of course, you know by now that there is no magic diet and no magic pill that permanently takes the weight off. While metaboli...
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The Naturally Savvy Weight Loss Challenge
Still holding onto a little extra holiday weight? Have you been meaning to get to the gym?Let Naturally Savvy be your motivator to start eating better, losing weight and feeling great! Naturally Savvy has designed a weight loss program for 6 willing partcipants, whic...
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Get lingerie-lean for Valentines Day!
If there’s one thing I coach my clients about successful weight loss, it’s the importance of setting a realistic goal. With Valentine’s Day just around the corner, what better time to give yourself the gift of a leaner, fit body? By following the simple, proven tips below, you ca...
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Biting Off More Than You Can Burn
Are you burning off extra calories before they turn into extra pounds? Those little ‘treats’ and the occasional fast food meal add up quickly. While the repercussions aren’t immediately obvious, added calories combined with low activity amounts to a “big” problem over time.One p...
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What’s your weight loss IQ?
According to the National Institute of Health – 98% of all diets fail! In other words, only 2% of all weight loss seekers keep it off for good. Research also clearly shows that 90% of those gain back more weight than they lost. Even though the weight loss industry is one that gen...
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