It is not new news that breakfast is good for you, and the saying “breakfast is the most important meal of the day” holds a whole lot of truth.  But why is it that so many people skip out on this important meal?  Did you know that eating a breakfast within an hour of waking up just might help you to stay focused, more energized, positive, and less likely to grub down on unhealthy food throughout the day?

The word breakfast pretty much sums up what it is, it is breaking the fast.  While you are sleeping you don’t eat, hopefully.  Therefore it is a fast.  Once you wake in the morning your body is ready for you to break that fast and get some nutritious food.

Dieting is a personal matter, and one of the most intimate decisions a person can make pertaining to his or her health and lifestyle. There are literally hundreds of established weight loss diets individuals can choose from, as well as diets that have more to do with health issues such as diabetes, hypertension, or heart disease. Depending on the reason for selecting a diet, someone will want to consider not only the anticipated results, especially in the case of weight loss, but also the overall healthfulness of the diet. Today, we’ll be talking mainly about a weight loss diet known as the Paleolithic Diet, or by its practitioners, simply Paleo.

Are you what they call an “emotional” eater? Emotional eating is characterized by a drive to eat – usually very unhealthy comfort foods like ice cream, macaroni and cheese, and lasagna – that is not caused by hunger at all, but by some perceived shortcoming that is deeply rooted in the psyche. It could be a shortcoming in others, in a situation, or in oneself that triggers emotional eating. But disappointment, unhappiness, and negative feelings are not the only emotions we human beings have. Emotional eaters also eat when they are excited, happy, and comfortable. When they are happy, their food of choice could be pizza or burgers, and when they are sad it could be sweets like cakes and ice cream. Even boredom can lead to eating in emotional eaters, who might go for satly, high carb foods when they feel less than entertained. This is because does more than relieve our physical hunger — it also satisfies emotional feelings, and when you attempt to solve those feelings with comfort food when your stomach isn’t really hungry, that’s emotional what is meant by emotional eating.

If you’re a vegetarian or a vegan, you are more than likely used to hearing the question, “Where do you get your protein?” Meat eaters find it hard to believe that human can survive without beef, chicken, fish, and other meats. A lot of vegetarians when asked that question like to name all of the meat substitute products they know the names of, but the trouble with these products is that so many of them contain additives and preservatives that aren’t healthy at all. Healthy sources of protein can be easy to find, though; you just have to know where to look.

After more than one month, the world is still mourning the death of Apple CEO Steve Jobs. His many contributions to technology are what is most remembered for, and what people will think of first upon hearing his name in the future – yet some previously unknown aspeects of Jobs’ life, including those having to do with his often bizarre eating habits, have now made their way into the public eye since the long awaited Steve Jobs biography came out in late October.

The Dukan is a very complicated four-phase pattern of eating that starts off with a protein only approach that often results in weight loss of around 7lb per week. However, the Dukan Diet has topped the British Dietetic Association (BDA) annual list of five diets to avoid in the New Year.

Dieting is hard work. It’s even worse when the holidays are upon us, as they are right now. Thanksgiving is just next week. Halloween was two weeks ago. Christmas is on the way! So how is a person supposed to take dieting seriously during all this festivity? Should you even try? Many people are putting off all efforts until after the first of the year because they feel it is pointless to try and reign in their appetites with so much good food around, everywhere they look. In fact, most Americans share this sentiment. They think it’s better to just wait until after New Year’s Day to think of adopting or maintaining a healthier lifestyle that includes better nutrition, diet, and exercise. Can so many people really be wrong?