Tag Archive: Fad Diet

The Top 10 Things You Need To Know Before You Choose A Diet

Tweet When you make the decision to start eating more healthfully, it may seem like the hardest part is over. Once you choose your diet, you just hop on the bandwagon, buy the food and everything goes the way it should. You lose weight.  You stabilize your cholesterol, your blood sugar, your digestion, etc. Your…

I’ve Just Gotta Be Me

Tweet There’s this song that goes through my head every so often.  I’m not the world’s best singer, so I won’t post a video of me attempting to sing but if you’re lucky, you might catch me singing along while I run. That is, if you ever find me in Central Park or on the…

Guilt Sucks!

Tweet I don’t know if it was my upbringing, but I learned from a very young age that if you don’t have anything nice to say, then you don’t say anything at all.   Well, in my opinion, that only works half the time.   And this is not one of those times.   If…

What Is Your Body Crying Out For?

Tweet Diets are a funny thing. First off, I hate the name of them.  When does anything with the word “die” in it mean a good thing? Second, they just don’t work.  Okay, maybe they work for a little bit, maybe a few weeks, a month or even a few months. But long term, they…

Diets Don’t Work Long-Term

Tweet I’ve seen it all and done a few of them myself, but the studies are done, the proof is there- diets do not work long term. In the matter of 3 days, I received the same article published by a research lab at UCLA by 3 very different but very respectable medical or health…

The Mediterranean Diet

Tweet Diets Based On Culture & What That Means To You For some reason or another, I never really entertained the thought of my culture, my familial background, as being something I should take into consideration when I was deciding what to eat. However when I began my training as a Holistic Health Counselor at…

The Blood Type Diet

Tweet I was first introduced to the Blood Type Diet, “Eat Right 4 Your Type” as written by Peter D’Adamo, ND, in early 2006. I heard him speak as part of my training at the Institute for Integrative Nutrition. I found the concepts fascinating and completely realistic. Although I can see how following the recommended…

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