8 Foods That Strengthen Your Hair


Updated 10/17/11 12:46 PM · Posted by FitSugar · 11 comments

8 Foods That Strengthen Your Hair

Aside from cleaning, conditioning, and using products to make your hair silky and shiny, your diet also plays a huge role in its health. Here are some essential vitamins and minerals you'll need for strong tresses. Iron-rich foods such as lentils, potatoes with skin, peanuts, sunflower seeds, tofu, molasses, flaxseed, oysters, beef, chicken, shrimp, and trout are necessary for strong hair. Read more

5 Foods That Nourish Your Skin


Updated 04/15/09 10:31 AM · Posted by FitSugar · 6 comments

How to Eat for Your Skin

We all know that you are what you eat, and what you eat affects your birthday suit, too. Being the largest organ of you body, your skin needs to be properly nourished to be radiant and healthy. Here are five foods that will feed your skin. Source Read more

A Whole Lotta Lil in This Week's Links


Updated 05/26/12 4:30 AM · Posted by · 0 comments

Baby and Parenting News Week of May 20

These sweet Memorial Day treats may steal the show at your barbecue! What to do with all that stuff baby outgrows. These personalized baby gifts are perfect if you have any new babies in your life! Planning a birthday party for your tot? Don't miss our favorite birthday party themes — ever! Don't head to the beach this weekend without reading our guide to packing a beach bag for a Read more

Nighttime Fasting: A New Way to Lose Weight?


Updated 05/24/12 8:44 AM · Posted by · 0 comments

Is It Better to Not Eat at Night?

We are excited to share one of our fave stories from Shape here on FitSugar. This week Shape turns to Cynthia Sass, a registered dietitian with master's degrees in both nutrition science and public health. If you couldn’t let anything cross your lips from 5:00 p.m. to 9:00 a.m., but you were allowed to eat anything you wanted for eight hours a day and still lose weight, would you try it? Read more

How Not to Destroy Your Marriage


Updated 05/18/12 12:53 PM · Posted by · 0 comments

How Not to Destroy Your Marriage

We're happy to present this story from one of our favorite sites, The Good Men Project. Today, Mark Tyrrell offers eight relationship tools to make your marriage work. "All marriages are happy. It's the living together afterward that causes all the trouble." — Raymond Hull So how do you make your marriage work? Or do you just blindly hope it'll take care of itself? Think of a hot, successful Read more

Lauren Conrad: Swimsuit Guide


Updated 05/18/12 10:48 AM · Posted by Lauren Conrad · 0 comments

Lauren Conrad Swimsuit Picks

We are thrilled to share this story from Lauren Conrad! The TV personality, writer, designer, and style maven has started LaurenConrad.com, a social networking site that features daily posts by Lauren on all of our favorite topics — fashion, beauty, food, party planning — and Lauren will be sharing her latest fashion finds with Fab every month. This week, she's sharing her swimsuit Read more

The Downsides to Meeting Your Goal Weight


Updated 05/17/12 4:35 AM · Posted by · 0 comments

What to Appreciate When Losing Weight

We are pumped to share one of our fave stories from Shape here on FitSugar. When I started losing weight, I often looked at women who were thinner than I was and thought, "Wow, her life must be so easy." I knew that once I got to my goal weight, I'd feel awesome, and healthy living would be just as easy for me as it was for all the "I can eat whatever I want and not gain weight" women around Read more

8 Cool Uses For Lemons


Updated 05/16/12 3:10 AM · Posted by · 0 comments

Uses For Lemon

You can make more out of lemons than lemonade. In fact, lemon juice is a really useful liquid that can be used to clean your home, can treat cold symptoms, and can even be part of your beauty regimen. Here are a couple of other uses for the yellow fruit: Wash your hands: When you're serving messy food like crabs or ribs, put out little bowls of lemon water for guests to wash the smell and gunk Read more

Is It Unhealthy to Wear Antiperspirant While Exercising?


Updated 05/12/12 7:10 PM · Posted by · 11 comments

Does Antiperspirant Cause Breast Cancer?

Exercising and sweating go hand-in-hand, and since no one wants to be known for their stinky BO, for many gym-goers, gliding on antiperspirant is just like slipping on a sports bra — it's something you just don't forget. Sweating is a natural process though, and when you're working out, it's your body's way of keeping you cool and preventing heat exhaustion. Some say sweating also releases Read more

12 Mother's Day Freebies and Deals to Look Forward To


Updated 05/12/12 1:35 PM · Posted by · 0 comments

Mother's Day Freebies 2012

Mother's Day is coming up and there are plenty of freebies and discounts going around for savvy moms to cash into. Seems like most of the discounts this year cater toward food and drinks; here are a few of them: Caribou Coffee: Buy one, get one free with this coupon. Print it out or save it on your phone. Ikea: Free breakfast of scrambled eggs, bacon, and potatoes and a cup of coffee on Sunday Read more