Why you should know more about antioxidants!

    Have you continuously nursed the desire of growing forever young and disease free? Glad to tell you that antioxidants may be of help!      Antioxidants are substances that protect body cells by preventing oxidative stress.  Just what I thought you are thinking, ‘what is oxidative stress?’      Oxidative stress is the …

Serving Sizes of Foods

For you to successfully control your weight, you need to be able to control what you eat. You can do this if you understand how to use serving sizes. While Portion sizes is how much food you choose to eat from time to time,  Serving sizes are standard measurements given to enable you control your …

Skipping meals or eating right, which pays off?

Skipping meals may be the most logical thing to do. It may feel like, ‘oh well, if I don’t eat often, I sure won’t gain weight’.  After reading through this, you will have a lot to think about!  1.      If you lose weight by skipping meals, you will likely gain the weight back When you …

Calorie… what does that even mean?

On several occasions, I’ve heard people say ‘how do you expect me to eat right when I don’t even understand some of the nutritional terms you are using’. In order for you to eat right, you need to understand what you are eating as you would when taking a drug and the most basic thing …