Search:

Michael Bens's Articles in Healthy Living

Show All|Display Category|Title|Newest|Oldest
  • Nutrition and Eating: Friends for Life
    I’ll bet you’ve never even taken the time to consider what your nutritional needs might be, or the importance of that nutrition on your health.
  • Overhaul your Eating Habits – Substitute Flavor for Fat
    It’s the age-old dilemma: how to lose weight without feeling deprived? For many of us, food is much more than fuel. Food is social, because we eat with others much of the time, and especially on festive occasions.
  • Lowering Your Calorie Intake, Eating Healthier
    The foods of the food pyramid are necessary for our optimal health. But in what quantities and which ones are the best? These are questions that must be tailored to our individual needs.
  • Is your Body Image Realistic?
    While it is true that many of us, in this day and age, have a genuine need to lose weight, it is also true that there are many more women on diets than really need to be. The fact is, women have a tendency to see themselves as fat even if they aren’t.
  • Lose Weight in a Controlled Environment
    There are few things as controversial as losing weight – though everyone would agree that many people in our society have a pressing need to do just that, we disagree over the best way to do it. Hence, there are so many approaches to weight loss that it becomes very confusing to many of us.
  • Metabolism and Eating Habits
    The body’s metabolism is a unique process for each individual person. No two people metabolize food at the same rate therefore no two people have the metabolism. We all use our calories at different rates, with different results.
  • Muscle vs. Fat and Your Energy Level
    Right now, the greatest results in raising our metabolism come from exercise and building our muscle mass, while reducing our body fat. Adding more muscle to the body, in turn causes us to burn more calories, and this helps to elevate our metabolic rate.
  • Reward Yourself for Weight Loss Successes
    Whether you have a little or a lot of weight to lose, you will benefit greatly by some simple behavior modification measures, such as rewarding yourself every time you meet one of your smaller goals. Losing weight is a big challenge for most of us.
  • The Easiest Ways to Lose Weight
    Losing weight is something that we all worry about, as a society. In fact, studies show that North Americans are heavier than they have ever been before, and this includes our children. With all the health problems that are caused by obesity, that’s a very serious problem – it will probably impact on our health care costs in the very near future.
  • Lose Weight Fast with a Homeopathic Patch
    Homeopathy, frequently confused with naturopathy, is a 200-year old system of medicine that is widely accepted and practiced in Europe (even by mainstream doctors). In North America, it is poorly understood, however, and is still on the fringe of what is deemed acceptable by mainstream medicine.
  • How to Eat Right in 10 Minutes
    It’s Thursday afternoon, you have thirty minutes to get from work, go by the house and pickup Heath, Jamie’s already at basketball practice, oh, and what about dinner?
  • Affirmations for Weight Loss
    Affirmations are a mainstay of New Age philosophy. In fact, Louse Hay’s book “You can Heal your Life”, which has many affirmations that purportedly have allowed people to transform their lives through affirmations and visualization, gives us a powerful tool in the quest for weight loss. Affirmations, whether you believe in them or not, really seem to work.
  • Losing Weight with the High-Protein Approach
    Over the years, one of the most effective ways to lose weight has been high-protein eating. Lately, it has been popularized by diets such as Atkins and The Zone, but it’s actually a much older approach to weight loss, having been around for at least twenty years or more.
  • How Do We Determine Nutritional Need?
    Today, we must determine how much nourishment we need, how much physical exercise we need, and how best to accomplish those ends. Calorie needs, nutritional needs, physical needs, and education about those needs now is information we should all understand, at least as it applies to our individual self.
  • Eating Habits: What We Learn as We Live
    It’s 7:00 am, and you’re late for work. You decide to just simply skip breakfast, and have a snack later, around midmorning. Your kids decide they don’t want breakfast, either.
  • Using Visualization for Weight Loss
    Visualization is a great way to effect any type of body or lifestyle change, including weight loss. There’s how it works – you maintain a clear picture in your head of how you want your body to look, and that sets an unconscious process in motion. You will be more geared toward losing weight, and you will meet your weight loss goals much more quickly.
  • Weight Gain and Weight Loss – the Psychological Ramifications
    With roughly the same amount of food being available to all of us in our society, why do some people end up with weight problems while others don’t? And moreover, why are some of us able to lose weight and change our lifestyle relatively easily, while others hold onto their excess weight?
  • You Are What You Eat, Right?
    To say that our diet contributes to our health and makes us the people we are is an understatement. The daily diet of every individual helps to determine the quality and length of our own lives, and quite often it affects the quality of our children’s lives.
  • The Planned Binge as a Weight Control Measure
    Why would anyone plan to binge eat? After all, for most of us, an eating binge is something to be avoided, and to be ashamed of when it can’t be avoided. We all binge eat now and then, but for some people, it can be a real problem.
  • More Fat, Less Carbs
    Over the last thirty years, food nutritionists and the food industry as a whole have embraced the idea of lowering our fat intake. This was a direct result of the information published by the government that encouraged less egg consumption because of the cholesterol found in eggs.
  • What is Metabolism?
    The dictionary defines metabolism as the sum of all biochemical processes involved in life, or the sustaining of life. In application concerning our health, metabolism is related to the intake and use of food.
  • What Is a Calorie?
    The dictionary defines a calorie as a unit of heat energy. It is also defined as a unit of energy-producing potential equal to the amount of heat that is contained in food and released upon oxidation by the body.
  • Vitamins, The Forgotten Element
    Vitamins and minerals are more readily available to us than ever before, and we’re still no better equipped to actually determine what we need to take, than we were forty years ago. Just because we see the latest advertisement about a particular vitamin and decide the symptoms of deficiency apply to us, does not mean we need to rush out and purchase the product.
  • The Four Food Groups
    With the release of the new food group pyramid, there are officially five food groups. Oils and butters are now included as a food group; but for the purpose of this paper, we are still going to consider ourselves to have only four.
  • Eating for Life
    As a matter of course, all responsible persons should take the time to educate themselves, and their children, about the benefits of healthy eating. Learning to eat for life in a health conscious way is one of the best...
Sign Up for a free account or learn more.
Internet MLM Success!
Net MLM Profits!
Success Online and Life!
Article Announcer!
Submit Articles
Member Login
Top Authors
Most Popular Articles
Submission Guidelines
Ezine Notifications
Article RSS Feeds
New Stuff
About Us
MLM Expert Blog
Link to Us
Contact Us
Privacy Policy
Terms of Service

Powered by Article Dashboard