low fat diet
Multivitamin Pill
Is it enough? Kimmer recommends a multivitamin per day for her 500 calories starvation diet, Kimkins. Theoretically, this will provide the RDA (Recommended Daily Allowance) for all essential vitamins and minerals. Does that mean that my body gets everything it needs to function? As the energy will be taken from stored body fat and the [...]
Counting Calories
The calorie is a unit of energy, in particular heat. The small calorie, gram calorie, or calorie (symbol: cal) is the amount of heat (energy) required to raise the temperature of one gram of water by 1 °C. The large calorie, kilogram calorie, kilocalorie (symbol: kcal), or Calorie (capital C) is the amount of heat [...]
Basal Metabolic Rate
The Harris Benedict formula is often recommended to calculate basal metabolic rate (BMR) in order to determine how many calories we should eat to lose weight. Basal metabolic rate is the energy the body burns in total inactivity and it is not recommended to go below this number. In addition, an “activity factor” is used [...]
Fat Phobia
Are you afraid of using fats when cooking? Avoiding fat cuts of meat? Buying “no fat” or “low fat” products? You are not alone. Most of us are brainwashed to believe that fat is bad for us and that eating fat makes us fat. This misconception seems to be based on two factors: Fat has [...]
