Most diets focus on counting calories, and follow the calories in, calories out method of weight loss. One of the most long-standing tenants of dieting culture is the idea of counting calories; if you eat more calories than…
Low carbohydrate focused diets like the ketogenic diet have long been linked both scientifically and anecdotally to quick fat melting and sustained weight loss. At the same time, rising rates of obesity have affected teenagers and children in the…
If you’ve spent any time on social media in the past five years, you’ve probably noticed the explosion of sponsored posts promoting weight loss teas. Whether it’s Fit Tea, Flat Tummy Tea, or California Dieter’s Drink, social media…
When most people think of cardio, they imagine hours on the treadmill staring at a dry news program. Even if you are an avid runner, extreme temperatures of the winter and summer can make road running a pain. Luckily, there…
Everyone loves to eat. For us humans, eating isn’t just something that we do to stay alive; cooking and eating good food is a hobby, an achievement, and often, a celebration. However, as obesity rates rise across the…
About a third of U.S. adults suffer from high blood pressure, or hypertension, which drastically increases the risk of heart disease and stroke.1 Commonly recognized causes of high blood pressure are smoking, drinking too much, eating too much salt,…
It has often been debated among scientists whether or not sugar has a direct link to type 2 diabetes. Studies over the past several years have confirmed, however, that sugar is not only indirectly culpable (in its presence…
As the ketogenic diet gains ground as a more widely accepted way of eating, a host of new products are arriving to help make day to day management of macros easier. Enter, the FBomb. No longer just a…
Purveyors of sugary drinks in general, and sodas in particular, have gone a long way to convince the public that the popularity of their products has no relationship to America’s obesity crisis. Beverage companies spend billions of dollars…