Coconut oil often gets a bad first reaction from people because they automatically assume that since it is a fat, its gotta be bad for you and its gotta add pounds to your bottom line. While it is true that even with the healthiest fats, one must watch their intake, and as with everything else, moderation is key, coconut oil is in fact excellent for you.

It has so many nutritious properties, and it also happens to be one of the healthiest oils to cook in because its nutritional properties remain fairly stable at higher temperatures, unlike a lot of other healthy fats such as olive oil and canola oil.  It is wonderful for vegan recipes as well.

Coconut oil is also DELICIOUS to cook with.

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Getting on that treadmill, elliptical trainer or exercise cycle many of us carefully look at the digital calorie counter built into the machine to see how many calories we have burnt. Based on that we do the math about whether we have burnt enough calories to set off the calories we have consumed during the day.

Can we rely on them to tell us exactly how many calories we’ve burnt? Well, calorie counters may be a broad indication, but they are not really accurate. <

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Theres been a lot of buzz around the assumption or correlation that consuming low fat dairy products helps people to lose weight.  A lot of people will put their low fat dairy consumption into overdrive when they are trying to drop weight because it is a common belief, just in the past five years or so, that eating a lot of say low fat yogurt, cheese and skim milk can help you lose weight.

Turns out, it probably is still just good old calorie restriction, and that may be the reason why the low fat dairy helps some to lose weight. A study was done on kids trying to lose weight, who consumed low fat dairy instead of higher fat dairy foods.

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Now that I have started the intermediate level of Turbulence Training and combine Insanity on my off days, I knew I had to work on my diet next. I don’t consider myself a terrible eater but I could really stand to clean up my act. The working out is really fun for me and it became a habit for me years ago. However, my eating habits were something I never really pushed myself too hard on. Now that the summer is approaching and it will be officially beach season soon, I figured I can take this opportunity to make healthy eating a habit just like exercise.

Something Clicked

Years ago when I was a couch potato, and proud of it, something inside of me just clicked and I started to go to the gym on a regular basis.

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