Weight Matters

Keto Diet – 3 Essential Minerals for Your Daily Diet Ketogenic Diets: Daily Dose of 3 Essential Minerals In the first few days to weeks of any keto diet, you may experience fat loss, and along with that loss, you lose water as well as sodium, magnesium, and potassium. Your body feels and functions...

Mushrooms are great for more than just your diet. You may know that mushrooms are low on the glycemic index and therefore great for your diet, but did you know that they may also help fight aging?  Newsweek recently posted an article claiming that “mushrooms are without a doubt the highest known single source...

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A Basic Overview of the Ideal Protein Diet Program The Ideal Protein Protocol is a medically supervised, multi-phase diet that is low in fat and carbohydrates while being protein rich. It is an effective weight loss and weight maintenance program unlike any other. The problem with the idea of a diet is that it implies...

Sadly, There Ain’t No Magic Cure “We will always be vulnerable to gaining weight” Let’s face it, there ain’t “no magic cure” to help us lose weight. This is why making meaningful changes is not the same as picking up a few tricks. When you change your relationship with food to lose weight, the change needs to...

No Cheers for Alcohol When it Comes to Weight Loss Heavy consumption of alcoholic beverages may increase your risk of diseases and lead to excess belly fat. We’ve all heard the reports about alcoholic beverages being either healthful or harmful to our bodies. Here’s a closer look at the latest research and scientific thinking...

Why You Should Drink More Water Water makes up about 60 percent of the average person’s body weight and is the main component of body composition, according to the experts at the Mayo Clinic. In fact, it may be hard to believe, but every single system in your body depends on water. That’s why...

DIETER FAST FACTS Artificial & Sugar Substitutes Sugar alcohols like erythritol, maltitol, mannitol, glycerol, sorbitol, and xylitol are all considered neither sugars nor alcohols and have become popular substitute sweeteners for foods we commonly eat. They offer no real nutritional value to one’s diet but instead provide favoring that sweetens foods and beverages. When...

Sugar Q&A Hey Sugar, Gimme the Facts. Here’s the straight scoop on refined and added sugars. What is meant by refined sugar? Here are some examples of refined sugars and the source from which they are made. •    Dextrose, otherwise known as corn sugar, is derived synthetically from starch. •    Fructose is derived from...

8 Tips to Avoid Halloween Candy Binges This Halloween beware of the pitfalls of candy binging. Don’t let Halloween trick you into cheating on your diet this October. The coaches at BodyTech Weight Loss and Health clinic in Rockville, Maryland have come up with eight ways for you to keep your diet on track...