Healthy Lifestyles

Let's be honest. The journey towards your target weight is never easy.

Rest assured you are not alone. If there is one thing that everyone can agree upon, it's that programmed dieting doesn't work. Strict regimens with too many rules and too little flavor fuels yo-yo dieting and disapointing results. In an age of consumer personalization it’s unrealistic to expect a rigid diet plan to be sustainable. To make it successful...you have to make it real. Today it’s all about dieting on your own terms, to suit your lifestyle. The sensible alternative to programmed dieting is to have a “tool kit” full of diet-ready tricks and tools to use the way you want, when you want.

Weight Loss Supplements: Fact or Fiction?

Whether browsing the shelves at a drugstore, surfing the internet, or flipping through your favorite magazine, you’ll find them everywhere: weight loss supplements that offer quick and easy solutions to shedding unwanted pounds. Simply pop a pill, put on a patch, or tone up with the touch of a cream. Do these "cures" work, or are they more hype than help? It's best to do your homework and trust your instincts. In this comprehensive guide this from the Mayo Clinic, some of the more popular supplements are reviewed…and exposed. Most haven't been proved safe and effective, and some are downright dangerous.