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As we’ve explained in a previous article, when talking about poor digestion, this health condition is wide-spread and probably the most common one, especially during holydays.

Christmas is just around the corner and as we know, traditional foods are delicious but also heavier than what we normally eat. Therefore, our digestive systems will have to suffer and “work” harder than on a normal daily basis.

Here are a few tips to help you go through those days easier. (more…)

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Do you remember the Okinawa diet? I was telling you back then that on this particular island of Japan people live longer lives than anywhere else in the world, due to their healthy life style.

Nevertheless, you should know that there are several places in the world where things go just as smooth. They were identified by Dan Buettner, an American explorer who wrote “Thrive: Finding Happiness the Blue Zones Way”.

Apart from Okinawa, he claims that there are four other similar places in the world where people not only have the longest life expectancy, but (more…)

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On site exercise facilities are not new concepts, right? They just took new meanings.

These were first used as cleaver recruitment tool for new employees and today they are regarded as means to get more out of employees, by keeping them healthy and above all, happy!

What is Google doing for its employees?

We’ve all heard Google is the best company to work for. Here’s why: all meals included healthy snacks likewise. Plus, you can bring your pet to (more…)

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I’ve always thought that women usually think they’re fatter than they actually are.

I know I always consider I should cut back a few pounds, even though I could actually gain some. But it seems that this is not always the case.

Meaning, there are people who think they are slim and ok, when in fact they are not.

This is the conclusion of a study conducted by the University of Texas Medical Branchat Galveston. The results showed that 25% of overweight women do not have an accurate perception about their body weight. They (more…)

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Being motivated with your plans sometimes does all the work for you. How do you keep your mood up when dieting?

What makes you go on when you feel you cannot do it anymore?

With a friend doing self assurance therapy and another shopping for clothes just to make sure she fits in anything she might like, I can say my motivational barometer is blocked.

Here’s how I decided to keep myself motivated every day:

1. Weight yourself

First thing in the morning, I weight myself. There is nothing more (more…)

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Do you remember those high-school Sundays when you had your best friends over for a movie night?

I bet it also ended with a lot of pizza leftovers and soda cans all around the house. Yet, you looked so happy and fit in your pixie jeans, right?

I read in some magazine that having a gym membership and a solid determination are not sufficient conditions to start rethinking your lifestyle and your health. What is really important is to have the “fun factor” as an integral part of your life. It’s vital to be optimistic (more…)

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You know you are lazy when you choose yoga sessions to lose weight, when you leave your shopping cart next to your parking place or order deliver food from a greasy fast food place next-door.

All these make your life easier, but it doesn’t mean they make you healthier as well.

If you want to keep your energy for some other activities rather than going to the gym, then I have few tips on how you can lose weight without too much effort:

1. Never skip breakfast! Lazy dieters should never miss out on (more…)

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Sometimes eating habits work in mysterious ways for me. For example whenever I’m sad, or tired or I’m just having a bad day I feel like barging in the fridge and engorging everything that comes to my way. Other times I feel like eating all the sugar in the world. This is me and probably others like me.

There is also the other side of the coin, people who forget about eating whenever they’re sad. Now I must confess that I do not understand them, but there is a psychological explanation for (more…)

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I’ve tried several diets these past few years. I could say there haven’t been any breaks between them; I just passed from one diet to another. And I’m really not that fat, just a few pounds more than average. However, each time I tried not to be on any diet, I found myself unable to eat what I wanted whenever I wanted. I still felt guilty, cautious and very self conscious. It seemed that my mind was more powerful than any diet.

Recently, I came across some books which focused exactly on this matter: the power of the mind over our bodies and how much thought influences (more…)

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Are you a smoker? I’m not. I hate the smell and I don’t particularly like having yellow teeth and yellow fingers. However, I have a tip for those of you who are smokers and are nonetheless trying to quit: what you eat may help you quit smoking or, on the contrary, it might make you crave even more for those cigarettes.

Professor Joseph McClernon, PhD, who is the Director of the Tobacco Neuroscience Research Lab at Duke Center for Nicotine and Smoking Cessation Research, found that (more…)

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