If you absolutely love soda, you may wonder if you can get away with drinking some of it as long as you’re keeping up a healthy diet otherwise. After all, you should be allowed to have some kind of treat when you’re doing very well otherwise, right?

The truth of the matter is that no amount of soda is actually good for you. Ideally, you shouldn’t drink it. That said, the ideal situation is rarely the same as reality. Not every bite (or sip) of everything we have needs to be nutrition-dense. Still, that doesn’t necessarily answer the question of how much is too much when it comes to your sugar cravings. Continue reading →

When you’re trying to eat right in order to lose weight, that doesn’t mean that you can’t keep up other nutrition based goals, too. For instance, now that cold and flu season are upon us, you might want to make sure you’re giving your immune system everything it needs to be able to keep diseases away or at least make them as mild as possible when you do catch them.

Until now, you may have depended on grandma’s secret soup recipe to blast your way through the cold season. However, that may not be a great idea if every bowl contains more than half of your recommended daily calories. Instead, consider eating a number of healthy and immune boosting foods that will also suit the majority of healthy weight loss diets. Continue reading →

As is the case with everything dieting around the world can have some surprising and fascinating variations depending on where you go. While more than one in three American adults are obese, being overweight is hardly something that occurs exclusively in the United States.

Some countries, such as Japan and India, have exceptionally low obesity rates. That said, there are other countries where they are considerably higher than the U.S., even within the Americas. This helps to explain why dieting around the world can look very different from one place to the next. Continue reading →