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Ontario residents with questions about healthy eating and nutrition can now seek out free answers online or by telephone.

Health Promotion Minister Jim Watson has launched the free EatRight Ontario telephone service to provide what he calls “credible information”.

Watson says the service will connect people directly with registered dieticians to discuss healthy food choices and explain diet-related health risk factors. (more…)

A typical daily food plan tells you how much of each food you can eat. Many people, however, are not very clear on portion sizes. That’s why you may have to measure and weigh your foods until you can recognize a typical portion by sight.

For a couple of weeks, use measuring cups and a food scale to measure all the food you eat. In time, you’ll recognize what a half-cup of rice or 3 ounces of meat looks like and you can stop measuring.

Where and how you eat

If you eat while watching TV or talking on the phone, (more…)

Many though of using the energy produced in fitness centers, but a few have done it. California Fitness Gym from Hong Kong is the first gym that actually stores and uses the energy.

The California Fitness Gym is more efficient and it is reducing the impact on the environment by using the energy created during the exercises into light and heat.

The consoles of the exercise machines themselves were already powered by human energy. But about 90 percent of the energy produced during workouts was dissipated as heat. (more…)

As a member of some weight loss online communities I read all the time people forcing themselfs to drink a lot of water. They say that a weight loss program without at least 2-3 liters (8-10 glasses) of water a day will have no effect. It couldn’t be more wrong!

Water helps you feel full if you are on a diet and you will no longer feel the need to eat that much, but a part of that, the excess water will do you no good.

The importance of water for your body

Water is your body’s principal chemical component, with 60 % of your weight. A proper level of body hydration is essential because water:

• flushes out wastes (more…)