Health & Wellness Articles from Weight Crafters

The Real, Educated Truth Behind Fat Camps and Why They Do Work

Are weight loss camps worth it? Are fat camps effective? Weight Loss Camps have been around in the United States for nearly 150 years - because they work.

Why Florida is the #1 spot for your Weight Loss & Fitness Camp Destination

If you are considering attending a Fitness & Weight Loss Camp, we highly recommend Florida as the place to be. Get all the necessities and natural beauty without all of the high costs...

What is a Modern Fat Farm for Adults?

Through accountability, exercise, controlled portions and healthy habit building, fat farms typically have predictable success rates and can often provide permanent results for clients.

Sugar Addiction: Where Does The Willpower Go?

The moment you bite into something tasty, your brain wants... no, demands more of it. Instantly self-control goes completely out the window. And every bite is followed by the desire for more. Learn more about sugar addiction and food addiction - the eating disorders nobody thinks about...

5 Tips for adults over 50 that will make you feel younger!

You don't need diet pills, anti-wrinkle creams, or expensive trendy foods to feel younger and more vibrant - here are 5 easy ways you can regain your youth right now...

How Exercise Affects Your Brain

Physical exercise has always been good for your brain - and now we understand more about why.

27 Weight Loss Motivation Tips: A Definitive Guide to Staying on Track

Read the top expert recommended tips for how to motivate weight loss, and quotes to back them up from some of the best weight loss and fitness professionals out there online today.

Exercise for Seniors: Facts, Benefits and Safety

Seniors frequently question whether starting an exercise program will be safe. Can seniors truly benefit from a fitness routine? How old is too old? In truth, some of these are valid questions - but others should be very quickly dispelled.

Why Most Diets Don't Work [Infographic]

Weight loss through diet alone and then gaining it back can have some devastating health consequences. Here's how to do it right.

Everything You Should Know About GW1516, GW501516, Cardarine and Compound 14

Popular but deadly. Despite being classified as unfit for human consumption, exercise pills are still being solid at an alarming rate...

Diet Pills: Hard Facts About Weight Loss Medication

We've said a lot about diet pills and weight loss medications in the past, but today we're going to take a closer look at the various medications and pills out there, and give you an honest-to-goodness summary on what works, what doesn't, and why.

Pokemon Go - The Fitness Phenomenon

It's gained a lot of publicity - and even sparked a population-level activity spike... But will catching tiny monsters help our health in the long run?

Healthy Diet Improves Mobility for Women Later in Life

According to a new study, eating a healthy diet when you're younger can have significant benefits helping you stay mobile as you grow older.

Exercise cuts your risk for 13 types of cancer

New study shows that regular exercise lowers your risks of developing 13 different types of cancer - far more than previously identified.

You're Eating Plastic: Phthalates, Endocrine & Fast Food

Fast food is rarely good for you - but a new study now shows that it could also be increasing your exposure to hormone-disrupting chemicals called phthalates.

Your Body and You: Staying Fit Past 50

You can't change growing older - but you can manage the aging process. With the right adjustments to your daily lifestyle, you can take the bite out of turning 50. Or 60. Or even 70 and 80...

Staying Active Saves Lives

Would you exercise more for $1,500? One health insurance company hopes so - and you need to take note of their motivations.

The Mistakes, Myths and Lies of Weight Loss

Some of them are blatant, intentional deceptions, while others may appear to be harmless and even seem like common sense. Either way, falling for these myths can hurt your progress and make losing weight a lot harder than it needs to be.

How sleep affects your weight, your health and your life

Sleep deprivation isn't just a convenient excuse when you get a case of the yawns. It's a genuine health condition that affects your body and your mind in significant ways. So before you set an extra alarm on your phone and stay up that extra hour playing video games or out with friends, take a minute and read on.

The Balance: Pollution vs. Exercise

Your intake of pollutants from the air increases dramatically during exercise because you breathe faster and deeper. Learm more about whether outdoor exercise could actually harm your health.

Surviving the Holidays

For many of us, the holiday season signals the beginning of a month-long event where the diet goes out the window and the calories don't count. Unfortunately, they do count - the average American will gain 5-9 pounds by New Years...

How Obesity Harms a Child's Body

More than a third of American children and adolescents were either overweight or obese as of 2012. In 2013, 42 million infants and young children worldwide were overweight or obese. At current rates of increase, this number is expected to reach 70 million by 2025.

Your Diet could be paving the way to Rheumatoid Arthritis

Want to reduce your risk of developing rheumatoid arthritis? How about increase your life expectancy? These two studies suggest ways that changing your diet and getting in shape could help...

Non-Exercise Activity Thermogenesis (NEAT)

Just how important is exercise in your weight loss plan? That could depend on your NEAT factor. Learn more about Non-Exercise Activity Thermogenesis and how it can help you reach your weight loss goals...

Today's Kids May Live Shorter Lives than Their Parents

Alarming research shows that due to obesity, the next generation will probably be the first in American history to have more health problems and die younger than their parents.

FTO, The Obesity Gene Decrypted: What You Need To Know

MIT researchers have found that correcting faulty FTO genes causes decreased production of white fat cells. Here's everything you should know about this breakthrough and why it matters.

Core Exercises: More than Ab Workouts and Crunches

When most people think about core exercise, they think about six-pack abs. That's probably because your abdominals are the most obvious showing point for a toned core body. However - this does not mean they should be the focal point of your training.

Superfood Review: Avocado

Avocado is garnering some pretty outrageous claims on the internet. Whether you love them, hate them, or are completely oblivious to them and want to know more - read on to get the low-down on Avocado.

Best Friends Forever: Sugary Drinks and Type 2 Diabetes

If you're still clinging to soda pop despite all odds, new research has just given you one more reason to can it once and for all. That's because striking new data has linked sugary drinks and artificially sweetened drinks directly with increased cases of Type 2 Diabetes.

Big Surprise: Americans Don't Eat Their Vegetables

It may come as no surprise that Americans today are eating more calories and less nutrients than ever. Of course, that decline in nutrition is only an assumption - or it was until now...

Everything you need to know about Aspartame

Pepsi-Cola recently made headlines by stating that it plans to drop aspartame from its' products. But is there any truth to all the hype about the dangers of aspartame?

This Vacation Could Save Your Life

When someone says Vacation, what do you think of? The more obvious answers might include tropical beaches, luxury cruises and living large - but what about increasing your life expectancy?

Women: Stop Wasting 50% of Your Efforts at the Gym

A lot of women are throwing away 50% of the benefits of their workouts - and never even realize it. For all of the sweat, panting and muscle cramps, over half of the gains to be had simply disappear, unattained...

Digital Fitness Revisited

Wearable fitness trackers are all the rage - but are they accurate? The results may surprise you...

The Top 12 Best Ways to Prevent Alzheimers Disease

Think diseases like Parkinsons, Alzheimers, dementia and others that afflict the elderly are inevitable? Think again - these simple lifestyle changes can cut your risks by up to 75%!

Fact or Fiction: Does Eating Low Fat Foods Make You Lose Weight

We've all seen Low-Fat foods for sale in the store, and just assumed that they are better for losing weight than the regular stuff. If you want to lose fat in your body, you need to stop eating so much fat - right?

The Secret To Looking Younger Is Living Younger

We live in a world full of instant fixes. Usually these fixes come in bottles, foods, lotions, etc. But one fix doesn't come in a bottle - and it solves SO much more than you would think.

Fitting Into The Digital Revolution

There are fitness wrist bands, plugin heart rate sensors, smart-scales that transmit your weight and other data to your cell phone and more - but are they worth it?

Fat Blindness: Our Children At Risk

Think your family is about average when it comes to weight? You may be right. And that may be a big problem. The tendency for parents to evaluate their overweight child and declare them 'just fine' has been documented for some time - but cases are now increasing across the country at an alarming rate.

Beating Weight Loss And Fitness Plateaus

Did you ever look at yourself in the mirror, after a hardcore gym session, and wonder when your progress is going to show in your reflection?

Physical Activity And Exercise: The Wonder Drug

Let's talk about the difference between physical activity and exercise - a common confusion for most people. Years ago, physicians would rarely recommend exercise for end-stage renal disease (ESRD) patients because they thought they were too unstable to handle the intensity of exercise. However, in the last couple years, physical activity and exercise has been shown to help renal patients rather than hurt them.

Resistance versus Cardio

Beginning a training program can be a huge investment of time and effort - so what type of exercise should you choose to maximize your benefits and make sure you get the results you're working hard for?

The Heart Of The Matter

Your spouse may not actually be trying to kill you - but according to a recent study, marriage quality can influence your risk of cardiovascular disease.

Go-Go Grandma and The Killer TV

A recent study in Spain followed 13,200 college graduates - all approximately 37 years old at the start. Over the next 8 years, 97 of the study subjects died. But WHY?

How To Get Back On Track

Once you start on the journey of weight loss or fitness, you will encounter a lot of distractions that may or may not rail you into your old habits. It's completely human...

What Is A Healthy Lifestyle?

There is a lot of misconception in today's world that being part of a healthy lifestyle means going all out and either depriving yourself or over-exercising in order to 'look perfect'. Coming from a person who did it all, I can assure you that those things will not bring you a happy lifestyle.

Why You Need a Vacation

Although often considered a luxury, vacation time is important for overall health and well-being. Research shows long-term benefits of a vacation. Time off can help ease physical complaints, improve sleep quality, and enhance mood compared to a pre-vacation state.

Spring Clean Your Life

As Maria Robinson once said, Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending. Nothing could be closer to the truth.

10 Steps To Avoid Losing The Thrill

What's your excuse for not making it to the gym on a consistent basis? Locker room too smelly? Eye candy not sweet enough? Music volume making your ears bleed? Feeling intimidated by buff bodies crowding the free-weight area?

An Effective Mindset

It's easy to get caught up in the trap of trying to drop as much weight as possible in as short amount of time as possible. There's nothing wrong with this, in theory, but let's not forget that it does no good to lose a bunch of weight only to gain it all back.

3 Easy Full-Body Exercises with 1 Piece of Equipment

If you are looking for one very efficient piece of exercise, look no further than the kettlebell. Kettlebell workouts are famous for burning fat by increasing lean muscle while building balance and grace. Plus it is an amazing stress-reliever!

The 12 Excuses of Christmas

Just for fun, I decided to make a list of some of my favorite excuses for NOT sticking to you program over the holidays. Read at your own risk.

Don't Sweat The Small Stuff

Stressing out can cause people to gain weight. Stress causes an actual physical response in your body. When a threat is perceived, real or imagined, the body has an automatic defense mechanism.

Not-So-Hidden Calories From Alcohol

Hoping to stave off weight gain in the coming weeks? You may want to hold off on the mulled wine and cocktails this holiday season.

Abdominal Training for Tri's

All three disciplines of triathlon require core stabilization and strength. Learn how to target your triathlon preparation training...

Training Through an Injury

When you’ve finally got a good fitness routine going, and injury strikes just when you’re enjoying it, it can not only be an awful feeling but can also put a severe dent in all your best laid plans.

10 Easy Family Fitness Ideas

The holiday season is quickly approaching, which means our focus is more on spending time with family and possibly less time at the gym. It's also a great time to change up (add to) your fitness routine.

Sprinting

When I tell most people about sprinting, the usual response I get is that they don't care about being fast, they just want to lose weight. They continue to trudge away on the treadmill or elliptical at a long, slow, slightly uncomfortable pace and then wonder why they aren't getting the results they want.