Intuitive eating is not a diet program. In fact, its creators, registered dietitians Evelyn Tribole and Elyse Resch, are adamant that diets do more harm than good when it comes to developing healthy eating habits. Rather than relying on food...
Intuitive eating is a dietary approach that encourages you to develop healthy, positive relationships with food, your mind and your body. Developed by therapists, Evelyn Tribole and Elyse Resch, authors of "Intuitive Eating: A Program That Works,"...
You're seated at a restaurant, salivating at the menu description of chicken cordon bleu. But the nutritional information on the menu indicates that the entree is loaded with calories and fat grams. The low-cal salad seems healthier, but...
People are conditioned from a young age to eat three meals a day. This does make sense on a nutritional level because your body needs fuel for the day, but eating just because it's lunch time can be hazardous to your health. There's nothing...
Intuitive eating is about developing healthy relationships with food and learning to feed your body what it needs when it's hungry. It is not about weight loss. In fact, focusing on weight loss is the direct antitheses of intuitive eating. Some...
The intuitive eating method encompasses paying attention to your body and its relationship to food, according to a 2005 study by Linda Bacon and colleagues in "Journal of the American Dietetic Association." You learn to understand when you are...
Both traditional diets and intuitive eating can help you lose weight, but people who eat intuitively tend to weigh less without dieting, according to a 2005 study published by Steven Hawks in the "American Journal of Health Education." Intuitive...
Kundalini yoga uses kriyas (combinations of poses, breath, meditation and sometimes, chanting) to work students toward an awakened Kundalini, a different level of consciousness. The 3HO Foundation, led by Yogi Bhajan, known by followers for...
A thousand years before people began wearing regular eyeglasses, the Intuit people, also known as Eskimo, used different parts of animals to make sunglasses to protect their eyes from the glare of the North American Arctic. London's British Museum...
Weight loss efforts often fail because people set hard to follow food rules and restrictions. Registered dietitians and authors of Intuitive Eating Evelyn Tribole and Elyse Resch found that people who did not make strict food rules suffered fewer...
Biorhythms, first studied over 3,000 years ago in Asia, are the rhythms and patterns of your biological clock. Divided into a physical cycle, an emotional cycle and an intellectual cycle, your biorhythms begin the moment you are born and continue...
You can find many diet plans and workout routines for sale by book, video, home delivery meals or weekly weigh in meetings. While most of these programs have the potential to be successful when followed accurately, they are not always required to...
Diets work better when they're a flexible set of guidelines you live your life by and not a strict set of food rules you find difficult and tedious. Registered dietitians, Evelyn Tribole and Elyse Resche, the authors of "Intuitive Eating," believe...
The problem with diets is that dieters usually start out with good intentions, only to fold in the face of strict food rules. The problem isn't your willpower or the foods on your plan, but the diet itself, insist dietitians Evelyn Tribole and...
The Mindfulness Diet, developed, promoted and taught by Doug Hanvey, recommends that you rely on your "inner light" to eat a healthy, well-balanced diet. Similar to other diet programs that encourage you to rely on your intuition when losing...
Food is a huge part of the social landscape. Families and friends celebrate special events or simply spend time together with meals. Every holiday and season has its own special treats. When you're restricting the things you can eat, it can feel...
High cholesterol can be diet-related, genetic or a combination of both. Luckily, if food is what got you into your high-cholesterol mess, it can also be the thing that gets you out of it. A lot of people resist dietary changes because they see...
In the animal kingdom, instincts are inborn, such as the natural instincts of salmon to migrate up-river. Human beings display one of two natural instincts when confronted with a threat: Fight or flight. In any type of combat, the instinct must be...
In their book, "The Relaxation & Stress Reduction Workbook," Martha Davis, Elizabeth Robbins Eshelman and Matthew McKay write about left and right brain drawing. The right brain is the side that controls the intuitive, experimental process and...
Creating an inspirational and guided yoga class requires a strong personal practice, a deep understanding of how the body works and knowledge of a variety of yoga styles. An effective yoga class should include relaxing, challenging and meditative...
The general consensus among health care providers and health authorities like the American Heart Association is that diets don't work. They set you up for failure. Most people start off with good intentions, lose a few pounds, then ultimately...
You've probably been on at least one, if not dozens, of diets in your lifetime, only to gradually backslide into your old ways and your extra large pants. You're not alone. In fact, emerging research indicates that dieting may be the worst way to...
Discovering your personality type can be an enlightening experience, and it may even explain why you're inclined toward certain social or professional prospects. Isabel Briggs-Myers and her mother, Katharine Briggs, developed the Myers-Briggs Type...
When someone says that they are "right brained," they are referring to the hemispheric dominance of their brain. Each side of the brain is responsible for different characteristics, and depending on the side of the brain that you use the most, you...
Weight loss is a touchy subject to broach with teens. On one hand, you want your children to be healthy, and on the other, you don't want to damage their self-esteem at this critical point in their development. According to the experts at the Mayo...
Early signs of pregnancy are similar, regardless of whether a woman is pregnant with multiples or just one infant. But for some women, the signs may be exacerbated. Some of the earliest signs of pregnancy go unrecognized or are misattributed to an...
Women who are trying to conceive and have done any pre-pregnancy reading or research know that pregnancy math is funny math. It doesn't seem to make much sense, but from a medical perspective, the "first day of pregnancy" is actually the first day...
