“I tried that diet and lost 8 pounds in the first week!” “I’ve gained three pounds in one day! It must have been the cookie I ate or maybe the mashed potatoes!” Stepping on the scale can become an anxiety-filled event that leaves people wondering where they went wrong...

In this day and age, people have come up with a lot of ways to either lose weight or gain muscle mass. Fad diets have come and gone, all promising to give you a healthy body. Some even get into these diet plans without extensive research, all with the hopes to achieve...

Even a few years ago models found themselves out of jobs if they packed on a few pounds after a rewarding vacation in the Caribbean. Such incidents were not only extremely discriminatory they also sent a powerful yet wrong message to the common people. At the same...

For about 50 years now, Americans have been eating low fat (some no fat) diets and the funny thing is we have gotten progressively fatter and less healthy. Whoever said low-fat diets were healthy, and more importantly, why does eating less fat mean you’ll be less...

Why is it that as we age fat begins to overwhelm our bodies like a garden with weeds out of control? Interestingly enough, our keen awareness of the problem does not make the answer to this question any less startling. This cruel anomaly has been in the making from...

Raising a pre-teen or teenage daughter (or son) is not easy and can cause any parent a lot of stress. There’s so much to worry about – dating, drugs, alcohol, sex, and school grades, just to name a few. But one crucial element that often gets overlooked until it...