Are All Simple Carbohydrates Bad?

If you asked the question: Are all simple carbohydrates bad then you are a victim of trying to simplify health and fitness advice too much. In other words, you have probably fallen victim to TV health shows and newspaper health sections that try to simplify everything to do with health and fitness into easy-to-remember nuggets of information. What would be more useful instead would be understand the different types of carbohydrates and then you will be able to judge for...

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Healthy Snacks for the Office Day

Most office-going folk face the biggest staying healthy challenge because for an 8 hour chunk of the day, they rarely have easy access to healthy foods. Most office canteens don't concern themselves with concepts like healthy cooking oils, limited salt content or even balanced meals and neither do delivery places catering to the office crowds. Therefore, packing and carrying healthy snacks for the office day is absolutely essential. Healthy snacks for the office day are not only the easiest way...

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How To: Recognise Healthy Cooking Techniques

Thanks to the misinformation and half-truths peddled by traditional media channels, the concept of healthy cooking techniques conjures up images of "fancy" recipes, hard to find ingredients and a whole lot of time and effort that is near impossible when life includes a 10 hour work day. The truth of it is that healthy cooking techniques need to satisfy just THREE basic and simple criteria - the food you eat should not have excess amount of fat and salt i.e....

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You Can Eat Anything You Want – In Moderation

Gym trainers are not just excellent resources for information on fitness, exercise form and nutrition but they are brilliant resources of comedy material. The other day, my trainer was bitching up a storm about the concept of you can eat anything you want in moderation. Turns out a lot of nutritionists have been telling his clients that you can eat anything you want in moderation. So rather than cut out their favourite foods, they are recommending eating less of it....

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Are You Eating Too Much Salt?

The daily recommended intake of sodium (i.e. salt) is less 1 teaspoon per day. Now keep in mind that when you're cooking a dish for 4 people, the salt that you add gets divided 4 different ways so chances are that not many people will answer yes to "Are you eating too much salt." Most of the time, the question of "are you eating too much salt" comes into play if you are eating a lot of junk food or...

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Are ALL Rules for Healthy Living Set in Stone?

The truth of the matter is that there are very few true-blue rules for healthy living in the first place. Most of the rules for healthy living that you would have come across in TV, magazines, newspapers and from celebrity trainers are nuggets of truth taken completely out of context. These so-called "rules for healthy living" are things that differ from person to person and will never hold true for the population at large. After all, if every person is...

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