A recent study suggests resveratrol may enhance weight loss and optimize blood sugar by activating brown fat.

A new study suggests that more food, not less exercise, increases weight gain over the holidays.

In case you haven’t heard the buzz the past few months over this “miracle weight loss supplement”, let me be the first one to let you in. Green coffee bean extract, recently popularized by Dr. Oz, is a somewhat new supplement proposed to help with effective and natural weight loss. Derived from the raw, unfrosted […]

I’ve long said that calories aren’t everything, because they really aren’t. To understand how to lose weight, one has to first look at their overall lifestyle. Calories in and calories out just doesn’t cut it. Here are some ways you can make your body start counting calories without you having to log a single meal. […]

Ginger is one of those spices that conjure up feelings of autumn for me. Even in this pre-summer heat, I still sip on it daily to provide a cleansing effect on all parts of my body. In fact, I’m sipping on it right now as I type this post! It invigorates the mind, alleviates physical […]

There is a lot of nutritional misinformation out there. A lot. Although I plan for this blog post to be informative about the body mass index (BMI), it might also become a place for me to vent, just a little! 🙂 Nutritional misinformation is something that I am really passionate about dispelling, as I strongly […]

Hello everyone! It is Tuesday, May 11th 2010. I hope the week is going very well for all of you (and if it isn’t, let me know!). I’m doing a quick post today to let you know about a “Healthy Weight Week” that I am hosting over at my other blog, The Healthy Advocate. The […]

After receiving some requests from friends and readers (and friends who are readers) about managing their weight, becoming fit and wanting to be healthier, I thought it would be fitting to publish a weeks worth of posts dedicated to this topic. I understand entire books are devoted to such things, but I will do my […]

Photo Courtesy of Telegraph.co.uk Although I dislike talking about weight loss, diets and the number on the scale, readers have asked me to for some advice on losing or maintaing their weight. Some have even wanted to know how to jut get fit and stay that way. Therefore, I am devoting the entire of next […]

Hello all, this is the Healthy Advocate. Back in early February I decided to go on an experiment that many before me have tried and succeeded in, with great health benefits to reap. This was a total elimination of all grains, in every form, from my diet. I have been pretty much restrictive on my […]