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One of the leading weight loss plans in our modern world today is intermittent fasting. Intermittent fasting, or IM, is a routine where you refrain from eating for a certain amount of time, and only allow yourself to eat during specific regulated hours. This primarily helps to minimize the incidence of snacking, eating because you're bored or eating just to eat, which is one of the hardest challenges of weight loss. Food is, after all, delicious, and many foods contain substances that could even be considered mildly addictive. Restraining yourself from eating or "cheating" on your diet is extremely difficult....

In the world of healthy eating, there are a ton of different foods, supplements, powders, and assorted natural chemicals you can be eating. Many of them are green, and among those, three stand out. Moringa – in juice or powder form – is one of them. Matcha is another. Spirulina is a third. You've heard of all of them, but the real question is: which one is the best for you? First, let's find out what they are. What is Moringa? Moringa is a supplement made from something called the "drumstick tree", also known by the scientific name moringa oleifera....

Tea is a healthy beverage, but that doesn't necessarily mean that it's completely empty. A single soda has hundreds of calories, largely from the sugar. What does tea contain, and how does it stack up? Calories in Tea Tea is mostly water, and it gets all of its flavor from steeping some combination of plant matter. The primary kind of tea, the camellia sinensis plant, is full of nutrients, but it doesn't impart much to the water. Or, rather, it doesn't contain much in the way of calories. The vitamins, catechins, nutrients, and minerals it seeps into the water are...

Despite some forms of public perception, coffee is actually a pretty healthy beverage when prepared the right way. Really, it all depends on what you think of when you see the word coffee. If your idea of coffee is the latest Starbucks trend with more milk, sugar, syrup, and whipped cream than actual coffee, well, nothing you add to that is going to help you lose weight. There are so many calories packed in all that sugar and cream that you're better off not drinking it at all. On the other hand, if your idea of coffee is a pitch-black...