Sonia Jones ND from the Haven Spa and Health Clinic
Researchers discovered something interesting about the essential oil of grapefruit. We all know aromas/smells can affect our appetite – encouraging it or curbing it. Several trials with people, have shown that that inhaling grapefruit essential oil over time helped to curb their appetite...
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What happens to you at the week ends? Routines and healthy eating habits go out of the window. You turn into a snacking eating machine?
Typical things that happen at week- ends Saturday morning get up later than usual and skip breakfast. Go shopping staving, shopping trolley gets filled with unhealthy snacks and those must...
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Research shows time and time again, if you eat more in the morning you will eat less in the evening encouraging weight-loss.
So many people skip breakfast or have too little or eat the wrong foods in the morning. So many people have it the wrong way round, starting off with less and increasing consumption...
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We have all heard of using colors to heal, calm, or stimulate etc. Colors can also have an affect on our appetite.
It would seem that red, orange and yellow stimulate and encourage appetite and conversation. Restaurants know this fact very well. If your house is decorated in these colors consider redecorating especially in the...
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I know so many people hate exercise, or don’t like it enough to make the time in their busy lives. Here is something that might help you.
Buy a little step meter that you hang onto your body – it measures your daily steps. It is said that the average person takes about 2000 to...
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Have you ever thought about keeping a food/mood journal, but couldn’t see the point?
It has been discovered that people who keep food/mood journals lose weight and maintain their weight better than people who don’t!
How to keep a journal?
Some people just use scrap paper, others buy beautiful purpose designed journals that give them daily inspiration,...
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It is also known as pomelo. This really is a star diet food and many diets have evolved around eating grapefruits. I don’t propose you do that for one minute, however I do suggest you add a few more to your diet.
Grapefruits contains hydroxycitric acid, an interesting compound. This compound is thought to inhibit...
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Research has revealed that our brains get confused between hunger and thirst.
Many people are eating something when in fact their body is actually calling out for them to drink something hydrating.
Most people today eat quite dry foods like sandwiches, breakfast cereals, toast, chocolate, meat, cookies, potatoes plenty of salty and salty foods like cheese.
The...
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Wearing one of those would be terrible I would imagine, you don’t have to do anything as dramatic as that to change your shape or get into shape. You probably know a lot of these tips already, but here is a reminder.
1) Always take the stairs instead of the escalator, as for not taking...
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Artificial sweeteners should be banned from your diet. In many studies done on humans and animals artificial sweeteners encouraged the appetite and cravings for sweet and fatty foods! Not an ideal situation when you are trying to lose weight. The toxic over load can encourage fluid retention.
Breakfast, it is important not to skip it....
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