Monthly Archives: January 2008

Practicing yoga is about extracting yourself from the physical aspect of the world, but having some yoga equipment items can make it easier. Items such as blankets, comfortable clothing, yoga balls, mats, straps and positioning blocks are all used in many forms of yoga. Different kinds of yoga can benefit from different kinds of yoga … Continue reading

Yoga is made up of many types of disciplines that seek to bring people out of their own, material lives and into a state of harmony with a Supreme Being. Yoga, in most of its forms, is not practiced in any one exact way. The different guidelines of each type of yoga are to achieve … Continue reading

The GI Diet assigns a numeric rating to foods based on how their carbs will affect the level of glucose in the body. It was originally created by Dr. David Jenkins to help diabetic patients. The diet has been found to be helpful to diabetics for keeping their blood sugar levels under control rather than … Continue reading

Because some foods take more calories to eat than they had in the first place, there are many foods that have a negative calorie count. One negative calorie food, cabbage, forms the central food of the well-known Cabbage Soup diet. The diet isn’t intended for long-term loss of weight, but is an effective way to … Continue reading

Barry Sears, a California biochemist, developed the Zone diet due to his own fear of having heart attacks like other family members. The Zone diet is made up of a carb, protein and fat ratio that is to be strictly observed every day. Dieters eat 40 percent carbohydrates, 30 percent fat and 30 percent of … Continue reading

The Atkins Diet started in the 1960s when Robert Atkins uncovered a new way to treat his own problem with being overweight. Finding that he succeeded in losing weight, he quickly began helping his overweight patients with the identical diet that helped him. In 1972 Dr AtKins released the book Dr. Atkins’ Diet Revolution, which … Continue reading

The South Beach Diet has it’s roots cardiologist Arthur Agatston. Unlike other famous diets, South Beach is based on a mix of good fats and carbs, that are blended together to create a healthy and balanced diet. The foods forbidden from the diet consist of ones Dr. Agatston considers to have bad carbs. Bad carb … Continue reading