How do you know if you are overweight? Being heavy does not necessarily mean you are unhealthy. Bodybuilders and rugby players, for example, are heavy but they are definitely not unhealthy.

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Breakfast is a very important meal. At least it is for me. What I eat for breakfast tends to dictate what the rest of the day is going to look like for me as it comes to my diet and how healthy Im going to be. So, if I start off with say a 400 calories, deliciously dense and chewy bagel with absolutely no fiber, topped off with melted butter clocking in at another 100-200 calories, Ive essentially eaten an empty and high calorie breakfast.

In order to qualify as healthy, hearty and starting the day right, a breakfast needs to show qualities of a certain caliber.

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Most of us know that salt is essential for the normal functioning of the body and that it makes food taste good. We also know that most of us eat too much salt; way more than the body needs and that this can cause a host of health problems.

So when someone comes along and tells us that one type of salt is better for health than another we listen.

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