Healthy Food & Life: February 2010
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All About Carbohydrates: Good Carbs and Bad Carbs

good carbs and fruit

Carbohydrates have become the villain of our diets. Diet authors and diet marketers have declared all carbs as bad for our diets, bad for our health and the cause for the rise in obesity, diabetes and a host of other illnesses and health issues. We need to eat carbohydrates in order for our bodies to function properly. There is a big difference between the good carbs and the bad carbs.

How to Hire Your Own Concierge Doctor

concierge doctor

It would be great if you could hire your own concierge doctor, a doctor who gave you their personal phone number and actually returned your calls. A doctor you could get to know and a doctor who would make house calls and come to you when you were sick. With a concierge doctor, you can do just that.

How to Lose Unhealthy Belly Fat: Exercise Matters

measuring belly size

A healthy diet is only part of the answer to losing unhealthy belly fat, exercise matters. You have to be able to lose the accumulated fat and more importantly, you have to be able to keep it off. Most people say that they lose pounds on a certain diet and then they almost always gain it back. For most people, gaining belly fat is far easier than losing that the excess fat. In order to burn fat, you have to eat right and exercise since they both can raise your metabolism.

How Stress Can Cause Unhealthy Belly Fat


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Belly fat is unhealthy is can also lead to disease and illness. How do we get belly fat? Is it from eating too much food, eating too much sugar, not exercising enough or could it be more than just food and activity. Recent studies are finding that too much stress in your life can also cause body fat to be stored.

How Belly Fat Causes Chronic Disease

belly fat being measured drawing

There is more to a big belly than meets the eye and it can impact your health in so many negative ways. It can lead to illnesses like diabetes, cancer, high blood pressure, liver disease, Alzheimer's and more. The belly fat you see on the outside is also inside, intertwined and interfering with your internal organs.