If you're looking to change how you eat, don't just try the latest diet where you only eat cookies or nosh on celery. Instead, do it right with a diet that you can follow for a lifetime! The Daily Beast recently reviewed the 10 most effective diets. Think you can guess what they are? The answers might surprise you.
Could your genes determine what diet will help you lose the most weight? Or the least? Some researchers now believe that a simple genetic test (at $149 a pop) can tell if you're best suited for a low-carb or low-fat diet for weight-loss. For the full article and more details, click here.
Have you heard of the two-banana diet? We hadn't. But it turns out that research is proving that bananas are pretty powerful fruits that may reduce hunger, help you lose weight and keep blood pressure down, especially if you eat two every morning for breakfast. Plus, bananas are totally portable and tasty! To read more about the banana diet, click here.
Green tea is regularly touted for its health benefits, but new research shows an amazing new way that green tea's antioxidant and disease-fighting properties is beneficial: it actually penetrates into tissues of the eye! This new finding raises the possibility that green tea may protect against glaucoma and other common eye diseases. Now that's something to raise your cup of green tea to!
Actor and film director Kevin Smith was recently kicked off of a Southwest Airlines flight for being too fat, even though he said he had no trouble buckling his seat belt and lowering his armrests. He was outraged at this, and since has declared war on the airline's public relations.
A European study that looked at shiatsu clients and practitioners in Spain, Austria and the United Kingdom found that the massage modality can play an important role in improving overall health and well-being.
Valentine's Day may be over, but we're still sending the love out! 
Ever wish you could have your own life/career/personal coach? Will you can! Most people think that to reach their goals they need to pay a specialist to help them get there, when, really you can coach yourself to success! Granted, a professional will always be beneficial, but don't rule out the coaching power of yourself!
At MTTI-WellSpring, in class we sometimes show students documentaries that are relevant to wellness. One such documentary we have been showing recently is Food, Inc. If you've seen the movie, then you know it's an inside look into the food industry. 
MTTI-WellSpring's own massage therapy instructor Kevin Deal (see him there in the back, wearing brown and looking dapper?) is featured in KC Fitness Magazine's Weight-Loss Challenge for the next three months! So far, he's had his initial and first weigh-in. He'll weigh-in weekly for the next 12 weeks.
