If you are thinking of transforming your basement into a home cellar, you are not alone. Home wine cellar setup is a booming business, especially in the luxury home market. When mapping out your cellar, you may want to know the size of a standard bottle of wine. Ninety percent of your home’s wine collection…
Category: Health Fitness
Carbonated drinks will be restricted on the Candida diet
My friend read something online before about how to eliminate (among all the other things we can’t eat) carbonated drinks on the candida diet. She loves Perrier and Diet Rite melba peach drinks (sweetened with Splenda). She only has one Diet Rite per day, but will often drink 2 25oz bottles of Perrier a day…
How To Gain Muscle And Lose Fat – 3 Simple Tips
Do you want to gain muscle? Did you know that when you gain muscle you are building fuel burners for your body? That’s how it is. Muscle burns fat and keeps it off. This is where the term “turning fat into muscle” comes from. Let us begin. Here are some simple tips. 1. Diet plays…
Low carb diet: miracle or myth?
A low-carbohydrate diet that strictly restricts carbohydrate intake is very effective in regulating the hormone insulin. Insulin is what controls glucose uptake by blood cells. In this way, insulin regulates blood sugar levels. The glucose that is absorbed into the cells is used to satisfy energy requirements. When there is more glucose than the cell…
Fitness myths: separating fact from fiction
Whether you’re looking to cut 10-15 pounds of fat or add 10-15 pounds of lean muscle mass, it’s important to first familiarize yourself with some of the biggest lies / myths in the fitness industry. Otherwise, you may end up wasting your precious time and could even harm your health in the long run. For…
The mental connection in weight loss
Struggling with weight loss and can’t seem to figure out how to lose weight? Well, you are not alone. Today marks a special day for everyone who has been struggling to lose weight because we are going to explore one of the most challenging obstacles to permanent weight loss in women: the mind-body connection. The…
Does artichoke really help you lose weight?
There have been many fads in weight loss methods, from the Atkins diet to Fen-phen and everything in between. Some of them seem to live up to expectations and some do not. A new trendy weight control aid is Artichoke supplements. This trend started in Mexico and is now becoming increasingly popular in the United…
Korean ramen noodles are becoming popular
Korean instant ramen is generally known as Ramyeon noodles, and they have some unique characteristics that set them apart from typical ramen noodles. For example, these kinds of instant noodle mixes often contain more seasoning than regular Ramen … spicy oils and powders, flavored with chili and garlic, are the norm. This particular flavor composition…
The truth about macro patterns
There are all kinds of ideas and theories on how you should eat to lose weight. Diets ranging from Weight Watchers, to the Whole Foods Diet, to the Paleo Diet, and everything in between have their own guidelines for how you should eat to lose those unwanted pounds. One of the latest ideas on the…
How Glutamine Can Help Tone Your Body and Tighten Your Skin
There are a couple of things you must have when you exercise: you must have a good nutrition plan in place, you must get plenty of rest, etc. To “complement” this list of must-haves is the glutamine supplement (excuse the pun). Regardless of whether you are a beginner or a pro, if you are trying…