The Mayo Clinic actually reviews 70 popular fad diets. Isn’t that unbelievable? And these are just the 70 most popular diets…imagine how many more there are floating around out there.
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Dieting is simply a function of burning more calories than you take in. In order to burn more you can do one of two things:
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Exercise more
Increase [...]
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Do you wake up every Monday morning with a great motivation to start dieting to look your holiday best? Somehow by Wednesday – happy hump day – that resolve is starting to weaken and by Friday night it is just plain gone, out the window! Come Monday morning it starts all over again. While you [...]
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We crave the foods that should be most forbidden to us. Artery clogging, fat filled, high cholesterol laden, waistline busting, high blood pressure inducing foods. Why do we do this? Because they taste good and we become addicted to satisfying these cravings. You can and should retrain your body to eat and crave good for [...]
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Drinking too many calories. Fancy coffees, alcoholic beverages and soft drinks can pack in the calories. High calorie drinks do not curb hunger either.
Drink lots of water. Metabolism drags if you are dehydrated. Try water flavored with fresh lemons. Also try to drink a cup of water with each meal and snack..
Don’t ditch dairy. But [...]
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If you are like most of the adult population you probably want to lose a few pounds to look your best. And, like most of the American population you may be committing these common dieting mistakes and thus sabotaging your ability to lose weight.
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Cutting too many calories. Eating too few calories slows your metabolism causing [...]
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While it does not seem fair it is a fact that as we age our metabolism slows down. With every passing decade we lose 5-6 pounds of muscle. We are burning perhaps 100 calories less per day at 40 than we did at 30. But don’t worry, there are ways to boost burning fat at [...]
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If you Google latest diets all kinds of diets crazes pop-up including:
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HCG diet
Flat belly Diet
Cookie Diet
Low Carb Diets
The Blood Type Diet
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Really dieting is simply math. Burn more calories than you take in. That’s why watching calories and exercising daily should theoretically bring about results. Some people need the extra push to help depress appetite and [...]
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65%    of calories you eat daily are spent keeping you alive and providing basic energy for life support.  Â
25% Â Â Â of your calories go to movement and physical activity.
10%Â Â Â Â of calories are spent processing the food you eat, simply eating and digesting your food.
Total 100%
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Maintaining your weight is simply a function of taking in the [...]
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Let’s try to de-mystify the whole dieting process. Losing weight boils down to simple math: You need to burn more calories than you eat. Most experts agree that a safe amount of weight to lose weekly is 1-2 pounds with a 1,200-1,500 calorie diet and moderate exercise (30 minutes, 3 times per week).
However, you can [...]
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Every food we eat serves a purpose and function in our body. Below are the common functions for every food type:
·        Protein: regenerates lean tissue
·        Carbohydrate provides energy
·        Fat that protects an organ
When there is leftover food that the body hasn’t utilized, it gets turned into added fat. This fat is then stored into [...]
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