Juice Drinks - The Worst Drinks for Your Body Getty images You can use your keyboard to see the next slide ( ← previous, → next) From cocktails and energy drinks, to smoothies and soda, find out the 11 worst drinks for your body Promo Subtitle From cocktails and energy drinks, to smoothies and soda, find out the 11 worst drinks for your body. Image Alt Text The Worst Drinks for Your Body Media Folder: Media Root By Abby Lerner Topics: FeaturedTopic: drinks FB like each slide Related articles
6 Meal A Day Diet Plan Eating small meals more frequently is a popular diet strategy. Eating six small meals per day can reduce hunger and may contribute to lower cholesterol levels. Each mini-meal should contain protein, carbohydrates and fat. Some advocates of more frequent meals suggest that eating more often will boost your metabolism and increase weight loss. To determine the appropriate size for your mini-meals, figure out how many calories a day you require for weight loss or maintenance. If you opt for six meals a day, you can expect to eat approximately every two hours instead of every four to five hours. Smaller meals can look like a traditional meal with smaller portions or may look more like a generous snack. Protein shakes and packaged snack bars are an easy option if you are short on time.
Kitchen 101: Fruits, Vegetables & Herbs Kitchen 101: Fruits, Vegetables & Herbs I’d be remiss if I simply focused on imparting technical knowledge in the Kitchen 101 series here at Chasing Delicious. I’d be downright neglectful if I didn’t talk about ingredients, particularly the biggest misconception about produce today: that it is naturally available year-round. Time spent in transit or storage is not the only inflated aspect of buying produce out of season. The biggest problem with buying out of season produce, and the focus of this article, is the lack of freshness and sacrifice in flavor and nutrients. My favorite part about abiding by an ingredient’s natural availability is what I like to call the Thanksgiving effect. That being said, there are many factors that effects a particular ingredients season. While these charts will provide you with a general understanding of what is in season when, there are three additional steps you can take to ensure you are eating in season produce that is at its freshest.
20 Foods To Snack On For Enhanced Productivity Most people eat to lose weight, get healthy and build muscle. There are some people, however, who snack correctly in order to enhance their productivity. The following is a list of 20 foods you can eat to improve your eye-sight, improve your performance, energize your brain and keep your day on track. Avocados. There you have it, my 20 ways to enhance productivity. The thigh-gap workout: Meet the celebrity trainer who says you DON'T have to starve yourself to get supermodel legs The 'thigh-gap' first sparked controversy last month, when some Twitter users admitted that they were prepared to stop eating in order to achieve the super-slim thighs of the models they saw at fashion weekNew York-based personal trainer Matt Townsend suggests five exercises that can help tone the inner thigh area without resorting to cosmetic procedures or starvation diets By Tamara Abraham Published: 21:09 GMT, 4 March 2013 | Updated: 21:09 GMT, 4 March 2013 A top personal trainer has revealed that it is possible to get the supermodel-like gap-between-the-thighs look without resorting to cosmetic procedures or extreme eating regimes. Following worrying news that the most recent catwalk shows have inspired teenagers and young women to turn to costly fat-freezing procedures and near-starvation diets to get super-slim legs, Matt Townsend says there are exercises that can make a significant difference to the inner thigh area.
What Everybody Ought To Know About Seasoning Uses Of These 53 Different Spices Used as a food additive for the purpose of flavoring and has been a part of human history since their inception. They were the most valuable items of trade in the ancient and medieval world. Actually you can even find spice in the bible. In the biblical poem Song of Solomon, the male speaker compares his beloved to many forms of spices. Today there are around 2 billion tonnes of spices produced yearly to cater to the demands of the world. Arrowroot Used mainly as a thickening agent because arrowroot tubers contain about 23% starch. Basil With an aroma of mint and tea, Basil is available in leaf form. However, basil is also used commonly as a seasoning for pizza, spaghetti sauce, sausage, soup, tomato juice, dressings, salads, and any other dish where oregano would also be used. Bay Leaves They have a woody, astringent flavor with a pleasant, slightly minty aroma. Normally it works well in soups, with meat and poultry dishes, pasta sauces, fish and is also used to flavor some desserts. Dill
Eat This, Not That. The No-Diet Weight Loss Solution How To Lose Weight In The Lower Stomach To lose weight from your lower stomach and inner thighs, you must aim for overall weight loss with regular cardio. The muscles you will be targeting with strength training are the lower portion of your rectus abominis muscle and your adductor muscles. Training these muscles should be done at least twice a week. Your adductors, however, can be trained as often as every other day and your abdominal muscles can be trained every day. Complete three sets of 10 to 12 repetitions for each exercise. Balance your caloric intake by using a food diary to track the calories you consume and burn each day. Aim for a 500 to 1,000 calorie deficit each day to result in a 1 to 2 lb. weight loss per week. Make healthy food choices. Get at least 2.5 to five hours of aerobic exercise every week. Isolate the lower portion of your rectus abdominis with a reverse crunch. Target your adductors by lying on your side with the foot of your top leg on the ground behind the knee of your bottom leg.