Try to serve your child some greens he hasn’t had before and what does your kid do? The odds are that he will wrinkle his nose and say, “I don’t like that”. You point out he has never even tasted that particular vegetable before, but because it is green and looks healthy, he has already decided it will taste bad. [Read More..…]

Wouldn’t dieting be easy if we only craved healthy food? However very few people are made that way, and most of us find things like donuts, bread, chocolate, cheese and fried chicken much more appealing than, say, steamed broccoli, a plain grilled chicken breast or a piece of fruit. Foods we crave tend to be those which have little nutritional value, are high in salt, sugar and fat, and don’t even fill us up that well. So why do we crave them? [Read More…..]

Making changes to the way you eat is necessary if you want to lose weight. After all, your current diet is what made you gain those excess pounds in the first place. The key to successfully losing weight is to make small changes. A complete diet overhaul is likely to result in disaster, since it will be too much of a shock to the system and too great a change. However, making a few little tweaks here and there can really work and you aren’t likely to even notice all that much. [Read More…..]