Good Fats for Your Health
Sharon LaCroix Sharon LaCroix

Good Fats for Your Health

Contrary to popular belief, healthy fat in our diets is not what has created the obesity crisis. Some 40 years ago when “the war on fat” began, we were told to banish fat from our diets mostly in the form of meat, fish, and poultry.

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How to Best Exercise for Weight Loss
Sharon LaCroix Sharon LaCroix

How to Best Exercise for Weight Loss

Exercise is great but regardless of what you may have heard on Oprah, it is not the silver bullet for achieving weight loss. You simply cannot exercise your way out of fat.

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How Does the Ideal Protein Diet Work?
Sharon LaCroix Sharon LaCroix

How Does the Ideal Protein Diet Work?

The Ideal Protein method is a medically designed, 4 phase-weight loss program focused on pancreas and blood sugar balance, resulting in rapid and safe fat loss.

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What is the Ideal Protein Diet?
Sharon LaCroix Sharon LaCroix

What is the Ideal Protein Diet?

The Ideal Protein method we employ at BonVie Weight Loss & Nutritional Wellness is a medically designed, 4 phase-weight loss program focused on pancreas and blood sugar balance, resulting in rapid and safe fat loss.

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How to Stick with an Exercise Routine
Sharon LaCroix Sharon LaCroix

How to Stick with an Exercise Routine

Exercise is vital for physical, intellectual, emotional, and even spiritual health and longevity. Benefits include weight loss, increased muscle tone, muscle, and cardio endurance, cardiovascular health, and many disease-fighting elements.

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The Wondrous World of ProBiotics
Sharon LaCroix Sharon LaCroix

The Wondrous World of ProBiotics

These happy, healthy bacteria have been studied at length for their intestinal and digestive health benefits for years, but hardly ever recognized for all the additional benefits they provide to aid in overall health and weight loss.

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What's the Sticky on Honey?
Sharon LaCroix Sharon LaCroix

What's the Sticky on Honey?

Most of us know that bees make it, and it’s super sweet… but HOW do they make it? And is it really good for us? Can it actually help us cure a cold?! Beyond old wives’ tales, honey actually has some real health benefits.

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The Link between Obesity and Cancer
Sharon LaCroix Sharon LaCroix

The Link between Obesity and Cancer

Obesity is an issue for our health in a variety of ways, ranging from developing diseases to aggravating muscle and joint pain. With years of research, the list of obesity-caused diseases has grown alarmingly long and now includes increasing the chances of developing some forms of cancer.

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HOW THE LIVER DETOXIFIES OUR BODY
Sharon LaCroix Sharon LaCroix

HOW THE LIVER DETOXIFIES OUR BODY

One of the most remarkable organs in our body is the liver. It is the largest and in some ways, the most complex, organ that we possess. Think of it as our body’s chemical factory.

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How Drinking Alcohol Affects Weight Loss
Sharon LaCroix Sharon LaCroix

How Drinking Alcohol Affects Weight Loss

Alcohol is a big issue when it comes to weight loss and for more reasons than you think. Yes, it adds extra calories to your diet, but alcohol also stimulates you to eat more food and alters the normal digestive process. Not only are the extra calories an issue, but the changes in food breakdown and turn those extra calories into unwanted body fat.

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Can I Drink Alcohol and Lose Weight?!
Sharon LaCroix Sharon LaCroix

Can I Drink Alcohol and Lose Weight?!

If you really want to drop those unwanted pounds - give up alsohol until you reach your goal. So if you are serious about effective and lasting fat loss, like the kind our dieters here at BonVie experience, here is what happens when you drink.

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Are You Burning Fat or Muscle on a Diet?
Sharon LaCroix Sharon LaCroix

Are You Burning Fat or Muscle on a Diet?

Do you weigh yourself? Daily? Once a week? Or just occasionally? We have been brought up (often obsessively) to chase that number on the scale to determine if we have gained weight or have lost weight. Well, guess what – your scale May Be Lying!

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What are the Best Fats to Eat?
Sharon LaCroix Sharon LaCroix

What are the Best Fats to Eat?

Because Omega-3 fatty acids may help lower the risk of heart disease, depression, dementia, and arthritis. They help your heart in several ways like curbing inflammation in the blood vessels (and the rest of your body).

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The Problem with Wheat
Sharon LaCroix Sharon LaCroix

The Problem with Wheat

Wheat can be found in nearly all processed foods. Because it is cheap to grow and has a very long shelf life, wheat is overly abundant in our daily diets, leading to health problems over time.

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