Healthy articles

While the 1960's advertising slogan for Lay's Potato Chips was right, "No one can eat just one," everybody can find ways to control appetite. Here are five tips for controlling cravings for food without giving up all the pleasures tasty food can bring.

The fear of the violation of our personal zone makes us dread the visit to the gynecologist - a big mental block that every woman has to overcome. As it is a matter concerning our health and well being, the sooner we overcome our shyness, the better.

As summers are getting hotter and more unbearable, the siesta may once again emerge as a way to escape the heat. These daytime naps also, however, offer other tangible health benefits.

Serious athletes all over the world tend to make the same serious mistakes with their bodybuilding diets and workout plans. Here are 7 mistakes bodybuilders make, and how to avoid them.

Scientists from the Harbin Medical University in China have found that your daily calorie intake can be reduced by as much as 12% simply by chewing your food 40 times instead of the typical 15 times

Several years ago I was invited to a breakfast meeting for health and food writers at an international natural products conference. All the big names (and some little names, like me) in my field were there, and all of us were eating from the buffet.

Figs contain many different vitamins, minerals and nutrients which are important for the health of the body. Scientists are currently conducting ongoing research to determine the hidden benefits contained in figs.

There are many superfoods powerful enough to lower your cholesterol, reduce your risk of heart disease and cancer, and save you money. There are no side effects and they put you in a better mood. Most of these superfoods are not expensive and exotic.

Emotional eating, we are often told, is the downfall of most dieters. People restricting calories for weight loss usually fail their diets, the "experts" tell us, when they fail to keep emotions in check and eat when they are not physically hungry.

All over the world, people are eating more and more of their meals in restaurants. Enjoying food and keeping control over diet goals, however, can be wrecked by 10 social and nutritional no-no's that ruin your meal and play havoc with your diet: