Everyone knows that we eat to give our body energy and raw materials to function, heal, and grow. Even the most avid couch potato burns energy sitting on the couch and watching TV. The human body is a machine, which means it needs energy to operate at all times. A sleeping person may not look [...]

It’s difficult to know what exactly makes up a healthy diet. Many are not just concerned for themselves, but for their family, as well. There are a ton of diet plans to find in supermarket checkout lane magazines, each of them claiming to be the easiest and quickest way to lose weight without compromising on [...]

Insomnia may affect different people in different ways, but may affect as much as 25% of the population at some time or another and 9% on a regular basis. (Source: Carlson, 2008) How much sleep each person needs is different, so defining insomnia is difficult at best. Not everybody needs eight hours of sleep; some [...]

Not so long ago, high protein diets were all that the rage. There were opposing viewpoints with regard to these diets, however. One side claimed that high protein diets were unhealthy, while the other declared them the saving grace of the dieting industry. Unfortunately, the high protein diets popularized at that time were not as [...]

Information about diet, nutrition and the various nutrients can be very confusing. There are myths that people cling to, facts that get garbled in the translation. There are diets that suggest that you can eat only one nutrient and be perfectly healthy. Other diets suggest that eating extreme amounts of protein, even in the form [...]

The human body uses protein for a number of functions and purposes. Without an adequate supply of protein from the diet, the body will turn to its own stores- the muscles. While you may want to reduce your overall calories to lose weight, you do not want to reduce the good nutrition that you are [...]