It seems like the perfect answer to getting yourself off of sugary drinks and away from all their bad health effects. If you switch to fruit juices, like orange juice or apple juice, not only will you get something sweet and refreshing to quench your thirst or wash down your meals, you’ll get all the great health benefits of the fruit. Except the fact is that drinking fruit juice can be just as bad for you as sugary soft read more…
We’ve been helping people healthily lose weight and maintain a healthier weight for over 30 years. We feel like we’ve seen it all. But despite the wide range of people and circumstances we’ve worked with, certain truths emerge time and time again. We’ve put a few of these together below because we feel they offer valuable lessons for healthy weight loss for everyone. Healthy Weight Loss Lessons We’ve Learned from Experience Like everything to do with losing weight, there’s read more…
L-Glutamine is the most popular amino acid, at least if your body was doing the voting. It uses L-Glutamine more than any other amino acid. Your body mainly uses amino acids as building blocks of protein, and proteins help every cell in your body stay strong and healthy. So, considering those amazing benefits of L-Glutamine , it’s kind of a big deal. 5 L-Glutamine Facts Despite its popularity, you may not know much about L-Glutamine, other than its benefits for muscle building. read more…
Whether or not your eating habits are the greatest, you want your children’s habits to be better. But considering that sweets are tied to celebrating almost every holiday throughout the year, from Easter chocolates to Thanksgiving desserts, it can get tough to maintain healthy eating habits for kids. Oh yeah, and then there’s Halloween. That one day a year when we send our children out to get free candy from just about every house in the neighbourhood. There’s probably read more…