Posted: April 29, 2016
Think of all the different tastes you enjoy in a day: tart orange juice at breakfast; your first coffee of the day; a Caesar salad at lunch; an apple during your break and oriental noodles in the evening. So many unique tastes, and each one of them delicious. What’s very surprising is that, while you enjoy lots of different flavours on any given day, your tongue can only detect five basic tastes: bitterness, sweetness, sourness, umani and saltiness. Some of read more…
Posted: April 22, 2016
Have you ever been on a diet that made you say “wow, I really like this diet, I never have any hunger pangs and I enjoy everything I need to eat”? If you have, you’ll be in an ultra-select group of people (it might even be a group of one!) Quite frankly, most weight loss diets suck … and then you find out that they really don’t work for sustained, healthy weight loss . One of the reasons that diets are not a read more…
Posted: April 15, 2016
Let’s not gloss over anything. Healthily and permanently losing weight is not nearly as easy as so many books, blog posts and diets make it out to be. If there is one change in your outlook that will help you to shed pounds and keep them off, it is that there is no one single tip, trick, diet, exercise or anything else that will, by itself, automatically get you to lose weight. Healthy weight loss results from a combination of a number of factors that includes eating read more…
Posted: April 8, 2016
If only losing weight was as easy as starting a new diet. Imagine, you go on a fad diet for a month and – *poof* – you’re forever slim. The unfortunate truth for the vast majority of overweight people is that the idea of eating less is a painful one. If it wasn’t, we would all be slimmer. Whether we overeat because we chow down too fast, or it’s how we deal with stress, the amount of food we eat is important read more…
