DietMotion

Do you feel the urge to eat chocolate whenever you are upset or anxious, even though you are not hungry? It may not be your fault after all. The scientists are giving you a new excuse now: your chocolate craving may be determined by the bacteria in your stomach.

Sure, everyone has a vast number of microbes in their gut, but people who have a daily cravings for chocolate show signs of having different colonies of (more…)

It looks like the nightmare both for men and women is finally over. No more bloating, cramps or feeling nervous, or at least that’s what I hope for.
SmartChocolate PMS Bar from Jamieson Laboratories is a premium rice crisp chocolate bar that is fused with natural botanicals to help relieve both the physical and the emotional symptoms of PMS.

White willow bark is often referred to as “herbal aspirin” and it can help to ease menstrual cramps by reducing levels of hormone-like compounds that cause pain and inflammation in the body. (more…)

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…)

These days, everybody tries to eat as healthy as possible, to eliminate the toxins from our food, from our drinks and from our bodies. Maybe you think that a natural diet will keep you safe from toxins. It’s not true.

Our skin acts like a giant tongue and absorbs the substances it get in contact with. Most of the people that follow a detox diet or are eating as healthy as possible are missing a point: the cosmetics we put on our skin every day are absorbed and the toxins get directly into our systems. (more…)

It’s a fact that cows don’t produce vanilla milk, or strawberries milk, even though every groceries store has them on the shelf. But how about naturally skimmed milk?

A group of researchers from New Zealand are already on the way to make cows produce naturally skimmed milk with the new discovered genes that enable cows to do that.

“The New Zealand approach could be used to breed cows that still produce full-fat milk but with only the good fats, which could swing things back in favor of full-fat milk. (more…)

Every dieter knows that when it comes to have a good eating plan, the feel of “fullness” misses and most of the persons come back to the junk food they use to eat.

Yaniv Linde, a 32-year-old Ph.D. student of Prof. Chaim Gilon in the Department of Organic Chemistry at the Hebrew University thought that developing a pill to give you that “fullness” sensation will help a lot of obese people to stay on their diets.

The aMSH hormone is naturally excreted during eating and binds to a receptor in the brain which sends out a signal that one feels “full.” (more…)

Google is offering all of its employees a free bike to ride to work.

The bikes, manufactured by Raleigh Europe, will be offered to around 2,000 permanent employees of the search engine giant in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. All of the bikes - plus free helmets - will be branded with the Google name.

Holger Meyer, Germany’s first Google employee, came up with the idea and staff will be able to choose from a range of (more…)

Skip the bagel this morning. Eggs, which are full of protein, will help you feel fuller longer — a lot longer. A multicenter study of 30 overweight or obese women found that those who ate two scrambled eggs (with two slices of toast and a reduced-calorie fruit spread) consumed less for the next 36 hours than women who had a bagel breakfast of equal calories. Other research has shown that protein may also prevent spikes in blood sugar, which can lead to food cravings.

“While it’s been well-established that foods such as eggs that contain the highest quality protein help people feel full longer, we were surprised at how definite these findings were,” (more…)

A growing body of research suggests that certain compounds in chocolate can have a host of health benefits.

“We have heard how chocolate may be associated with a cardioprotective effect, and that it may lower blood pressure and reduce cholesterol,”

said Dr. Randall Zusman, director of Massachusetts General Hospital’s division of hypertension.

“From my perspective, it is interesting that a natural product, especially something like chocolate, may have a beneficial effect.”

The positive effects shown thus far are predominantly associated with substances called flavonoids, which are abundant in raw (more…)

AndrewAndrew, a design firm, has created this cookie whose nutrition facts are printed right on it’s body, in edible ink.

This is the real cookie with the real nutritional facts printed on it and you can literally see the calories you eat.

Too bad not all cookies are like this one. If they were, maybe people might think twice about it before eating an entire box.

This particular one contains 35 grams of carb, which is the equivalent of almost a quarter of a cup of pure sugar and its calorie number (260) is equal to my breakfast’ calorie number. (more…)