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So many people give up on their diets without really giving it a real chance. Many times they are simply afraid they will be hungry and easily gave up all effort to lose weight after just a few days.  Plus as you age our metabolism slows down and its ever easier to pack on the [...]

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So many people today live such busy lifestyles that they are not paying attention to their health.  A sedentary lifestyle, ie. Sitting at a desk or computer allday, relaxing by watching TV, lack of exercise or sport coupled with poor eating habits can and will lead to obesity.

Being busy often means relying more on fast [...]

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Any one who has ever dieted knows that getting rid of belly fat is a whole different kind of animal. Our bodies indeed have different kinds of fat.  So what is belly fat composed of and how do we get eliminate it??

There are basically two kinds of fat in our bodies:

Subcutaneous

Is the “inch you can [...]

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The USDA Food Pyramid  is updated every few years as we learn more about nutrition, the guidelines are refined and improved slightly. Here are some tips to help you get the most out of the food pyramid, for most advantageous nutrition.  When you are allowing for a weight loss plan, it is best to operate [...]

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Some of you may have taken Fat Tuesday and the Mardis Gras period before Lent a bit to heart.  All that gluttonous eating has left you with a few extra pounds! How to lose the weight? Here are some foods that will boost your metabolism and get you on your way to losing weight:

15 Metabolism [...]

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Every year a new crop of diet books are published lauding the benefits of yet another comprehensive weight loss strategy to help lose those unwanted pounds.  The following are five new potential best sellers.  Which diet plan is right for you…take a look and decide.

 

The Big Breakfast Diet: Diet by Dr. Jakubowicz. Dieters really can basically [...]

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There is such a thing as taking a diet too far.  Eating too few calories signals to your body that you are in starvation mode and your body acclimates to having fewer calories.  Why is this a problem?  Because when you resume a “normal” diet even if it isn’t overeating you WILL GAIN WEIGHT because [...]

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We are used to receiving super-size portions when we go out to eat, which is a large factor in the obesity of Americans. Over the years serving sizes have become bigger and bigger.  Think of the size of a bagel. Our grandparents ate a three-inch bagel for a total of 150 calories. Today, most bagels [...]

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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.

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:
 

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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