Being obese (68.8% of U.S. adults are obese or overweight) and having a sedentary lifestyle opens the floodgates for many health problems and diseases, like cancer. It opens up to weight related cancers (like breast (after menopause), pancreatic, colon, kidney, and …

Sleep is a vital component of weight loss, and losing out of a couple of hours could be the hindrance to dropping down to that coveted pant size. Lack of sleep increases our craving for salt and sugar, and increases the …

How are those New Year’s resolutions coming along?! Here is a reminder of tips to keep you on the wagon: Tip #1: Review your week’s schedule Tip #2: Take a multivitamin every day Tip #3: Record everything you eat for …

Federal regulators have issued a new set of dietary guidelines that bluntly urge Americans to eat less food. Among their other recommendations, they encourage people to replace sugary beverages with water, eat more fruits and vegetables, and eat less processed …

Too much of anything is bad for you, especially sodium. A USA Today article featuring a Center for Disease Control report highlights the need to reduce sodium consumption. A staggering 98.6% of the population need to reduce their sodium intake. …

Prepared food (in restaurants and grocery stores) is laden with salt.  I used to have high blood pressure, but as I lost weight, my blood pressure normalized, and I stopped taking medication for hypertension.  I also limited my salt intake – mostly by not …

NY Times article on the salt industry’s “push-back” against those seeking to limit salt added to prepared foods. By all appearances, this is a moment of reckoning for salt. High blood pressureis rising among adults and children. Government health experts estimate …