All posts tagged: fat

[Recipe] Low Cholesterol Pasta Eggplant Caponata

This delicious recipe is easy to make and takes about 40 minutes to make and yields about 4 servings. Ingredients: 2 tbsp Olive oil 1 onion, chopped 2 Garlic cloves, finely chopped 1 large Eggplant (about 500g), cut into 2cm cubes 2 x 400g cans chopped Tomatoes 2 tsp Caster sugar 60g Green olives, pitted

How to beat belly fat and the Freshman-15

Most of us tend to stay skinny throughout school, but when we enter college all hell seems to break loose. In America they call it the Freshman-15, as the theory goes; you will gain 15 pounds in your first year at college. This is a bit far fetched as research has shown that most students

We eat less healthy than we think

How many times have you heard someone say; or ever found yourself saying; “I eat very healthy, why am I gaining weight?” or “Why am I not loosing weight?”. Well, the answer to that is quite easy. You’re eating wrong! 80% of all people who count their calories, count them wrongly or even leave out

The obesity crisis

Obesity has become alarmingly high over the past few decades. Rising to about 1,4 billion adults being overweight and a whopping 40 million children under the age of 5 being overweight. Obesity can be prevented! Watching what we eat and cutting down on soda, sugar, fast food and processed foods can do wonders. I personally