Healthy On-the-Go Eating Tips

Eating healthy — sure we’d all like to, but who the heck has the time? Grabbing an on-the-go meal is simply a much more feasible option when you’re always, well, on the go. The downside of that option, however, is the consumption of too many calories, unhealthy fats, and fast-digesting carbs. Sounds to me like it’s time to make time for eating healthy.

Weight Watchers magazine offers some easy, time-saving tips …

UK Restaurants to List Calorie Counts

By the end of June 2009, eighteen fast-food chains, restuarants and catering companies in the UK are set to follow the example of New York’s restaurants and print calorie information on their menus.

The Food Standards Agency (FSA) (a goverment body) worked alongside the Department of Health to set strict criteria. The restaurant chains and catering companies taking part must:

• Show the number of calories in each portion in writing that is …
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Exercise Guide for Seniors

All too often, the fitness industry focuses on youth: advertisements for gyms commonly show a number of skimply-clad twenty-somethings prancing around.

This makes the exercise advice published by the National Institute of Aging (NIA, one of the Institutes that makes up the NIH) a welcome breath of reality.

People of all ages can, do, and should exercise. In the introduction to the new guide, Senator John Glenn says:

I am pleased to recommend Exercise: …

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Body Fat Solution: Interview with Tom Venuto

Editor: “Every new year a plethora of diet books hit the shelves - many simply re-hashing the same old information. What is different about the Body Fat Solution?”

Tom Venuto: “Mainly, it’s not a diet book at all. It’s not a bunch of recipes and menus. My new book was designed more to help you stick with whatever nutrition and training programs you choose and make them an effortless part …

Diet for Healthy Eyes

We all know that if we intend to keep our body in good shape we have to do some form of physical exercise regularly as well as be careful with what we eat. If we only would eat junk food our bodies, and our health, would seriously suffer.

What we tend to forget is that this goes for our eyes as well. If we only eat burgers and fries, we wouldn’t be …