Do you have any health goals for the coming year?
The beginning of a new year seems to be when many people focus on making changes, especially to their diet or weight.
When you're setting weight loss goals, you may consider popular fad diets as the method to get there. You may have had success with them yourself or know someone who did, but be careful about the plan you choose.
Here are two that have been popular but you need to be extra careful with.
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Thanksgiving is just around the corner, and like all holidays, you may be planning for success or already dreading the "failure" when it comes to making healthy choices.
You've seen all the usual tips for eating healthy at holidays, so I'm not going to repeat those. Instead, I'm giving you some unconventional advice.
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Did you know that vitamins were not created to be taken alone?
It's true. Vitamins never appear in nature isolated. They are found in foods along with dozens of other vitamins, minerals, and compounds.
What you may not know is that those other components play a crucial role in how your body absorbs those vitamins.
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Why do we do it? Make all these healthy choices that seem counterintuitive to what we've been taught? Bypass things we enjoy? Make choices that aren't always easy?
I'll admit, it sometimes seems like there's little benefit.
But I received a really big reminder a few weeks ago of why it is all absolutely worth it.
Canned cream of chicken (or mushroom or celery or whatever) soup really has an unappealing look and feel coming out of the can. I think we all know that!
But how much do you know about what's really important – the ingredients that are in that can?
Our health and how we feel depend on what we're putting in and on our bodies, so let's investigate that cream of something soup.
