Feeling a little stressed, short-tempered or on edge? Putting on a few pounds around the middle? Having trouble maintaining your edge at work?
Here’s something that’s going to shock you a bit. For some of you, it’s even going to be a bit of good news. Your stress-inducing job, French-cruller breakfast-smoothies and increasingly sedentary lifestyle might […]

Between longer work hours and the demands of raising a family, most of us rely on eating out at some point in the week . In fact, a 2008 New American Diner Study finds that away-from-home dining continues to occupy an important place in Americans’ increasingly busy lives.
Turns out that the average adult purchases a […]

Whether it’s just before lunch and your having a challenging day at the office or on your way home and you know that dinner is still a few hours away, everyone has experienced those hunger pains that have us reaching for all the wrong foods.
When the time comes to choose your snack, be prepared […]

Losing weight can be as simple as cutting out one teaspoon of sugar in your morning coffee or forgoing that extra slice of bread with your dinner.
To lose a pound of fat a month, assuming your intake and expenditure of all other calories remains the same, all you need to do is cut […]

Actress Kirstie Alley is setting up her own weight loss plan after parting ways with diet giant Jenny Craig.
The star, who shed 75 pounds on the Jenny Craig plan, split from the company after three years as their spokeswoman.
But instead of shunning the dieting limelight Alley, who has recently struggled with keeping the weight off, […]

CNN reported that Tracey Wygal, a 30-year-old middle-school teacher goes to the gym daily. She does cardio exercise, strength trains and follows what she calls a “clean diet.”
A junk food diet in her early teens led her to weigh 295 pounds. “It was my first year out of college, and that number, along with being […]

I couldn’t help thinking about ‘what if’ some of the hottest celebrities today ate like the rest of us? Yes, you know….Super Size Me!
10 - Elizabeth Hurley 

9 - Gwyneth Paltrow 

 8 - Jennifer Love Hewitt

7 - Jennifer Lopez 

 6 - Julia Roberts

5 - Renee Zellweger 

4 - Sandra Bullock

 3 - Shakira

2 - Catherine Zeta-Jones 

1 -  Pam Anderson

Here’s some advice that got my attention today. If trying to lose weight thenskip the diet pop and go straight for the sugar!
According to a study of two groups of rats, researchers at Purdue University found those fed yogurt sweetened with saccharin, a zero-calorie sweetener, ate more and gained more weight than those that […]

With so many studies and franchised programs available, how do we know which ones really work? Below we’ve captured some of the major ones everyones talking about along with some pros and cons of each diet.
Weight Watchers
Based on a points system known as the “Winning Points” plan whereby all types of […]

The myTorontoWeightLoss.com (WHR) waist-to-hip ratio calculator measures the ratio of the circumference of the waist to that of the hips. Your waist-to-hip ratio tells you if you’re pear-shaped, apple-shaped or squash-shaped.
Did you know that a Cambridge University study says that the size of your waist in relation to the size of your hips can help […]