YES! Your body needs carbs!

Carbohydrates are an important component of the human diet. It supplies our cells with energy needed for daily metabolism, digestion, physical activity, and recovery. And good carbs also provide us with beneficial fiber, vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants that help to regulate the body, and manage disease and aging.

What I Wish Everyone Knew About the Potato

Before we get started, let’s get something straight: It is a fact that potatoes hold a valuable place in a healthy diet. I have to say this now as it is alarming how negative news about natural sources of carbohydrates are being circulated by fans of fad diets – food trends that are usually a joke or worse, a threat to the health of the public.

The #1 reason why you shouldn’t weigh yourself everyday.

Weighing yourself sounds like the most basic thing to do when you think of weight management – and a bathroom scale is usually the first investment, cause how else would you measure progress, right? True enough, bathroom scales are the cheapest, easiest, and most convenient way to measure your weight but by experience, weight watchers…

5 Sure Ways to Fit In at the Gym

The gym is one of those places that are really intimidating to enter because of all the new space and equipment that you haven’t tried before. But what usually stops people is the fear that they might not fit in. We imagine and obsess over the most embarrassing thing that can happen to us while…

Intermittent Fasting: Quick Guide for Beginners

Article featured on www.pinoyfitness.com. In the world of weight loss diets, intermittent fasting is my best bet. To set things straight, intermittent fasting is in fact, a diet regimen and not just an eating pattern. To a dietitian, it’s weird if you tell me that you’re on intermittent fasting but not on a diet. In…