Tag: vegetables

Handling Sugar, Fat and Salt Cravings

Many people who are addicted to overeating are addicted to either sugar, fat or salt. This is because these are three things that give stimulate the pleasure centers of our brains and calm us.   Battling a Sugar Addiction To get rid of a sugar addiction you need to substitute it with foods that are still sweet but a bit better for you in terms […]

How to Deal With Junk Food Cravings

Our hectic lifestyles and money shortages make us angry. Nobody has time to eat properly. The result is a complete over-reliance on junk food and fast food restaurants.  It is not rational for an overeater to be anywhere near a junk food place but in this day and age, they are very hard to avoid just because the food source is so cheap and convenient. […]

Simple Food Substitutions for Fitness

Forget the lemon and maple syrup cleanses and fad fasting for now. You can fight the flab simply by making a few substitutions in your diet.   If you have been eating a lot of lettuce switch up with kale, spinach or chard. These greener and leaner salad ingredients have more than triple the iron and vitamins of iceberg lettuce which means that you are […]

Avoiding Transfats to Get Healthy

You can diet, you can exercise but if you are still eating unhealthy transfats in the form of palm oil or vegetable oil then you are not going to get healthy or thin. This means that in order to get thin and lower your cholesterol you need to avoid  eating margarine, fried foods, baked goods and fast foods. You should also avoid food items saturated […]