Diet

We all have that friend who follows the latest dieting crazes. Whether that craze is strictly eating grapefruits and popcorn for seven days straight, doing a juice cleanse, or simply restricting their calories to an obscene proportion in order to love five pounds for an upcoming event. While they may experience immediate results, crash dieting is not always the way to go when focusing on weight loss and thinking about the long-term effects.

Among all of the health fads that come and go, keto is a trending diet that doesn’t seem to be going anywhere. This low carb, high protein and fat diet has become popular for people trying to lose weight and improve certain health conditions. You can learn more about this diet and teh benefits it […]

As we are full force in swimsuit season, it’s hard not to notice how a lot of marketing and advertising focuses on new health foods and other tools to help make losing weight easy. Throughout history, doctors, trainers, and all sorts of other health care workers — professional and otherwise — have tried to come up with the one definitive diet that can help everyone shed pounds and sculpt their bodies into a lean and trim shape.

Likely the word “diet” has a Greek or Latin origin, but for those who have been on the diet merry-go-round a couple of times, the first three letters of the word speak volumes.

You have them for breakfast. You have them for lunch. You snack on them when you’re feeling peckish and, oh yeah, you also eat them for dinner. Avocados are more than just delicious. They’re good for you and even better for your Instagram feed. Sure, the tattoo might have been overkill, but your avocado addiction can actually be a good thing.

I know, I know… all diets are “the worst,” if only because they prevent you from eating the things that you really, really love. Also, they usually don’t work. Whether they’re too limiting to realistically keep up, too much work to maintain or just too darn bland to enjoy, there’s a reason most nutritionists consider “diet” a dirty word.