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Portion Control for a Healthy Diet

If your diet consists mostly of whole grains, fresh fruits and vegetables, low fat dairy, and lean protein, good job! Just remember that too much of a good thing is not good. Why sabotage your efforts? Portion control is easy once it becomes...

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Overcome Bingeing and Obsessions with Food

In her book The Appetite Awareness Workbook (New Harbinger Publications, 2006), Linda W. Craighead, PhD has created a plan to “overcome bingeing, overeating, and obsession with food” by teaching individuals how to listen to their body’s needs. She states that “[f]irst you break...

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Quick Tips for Successful Weight Management

To be successful at weight loss and management, one must replace negative habits with positive behaviors. This usually means making basic lifestyle changes. Taking care of oneself means making a healthier lifestyle a lifetime pursuit. By learning the basic tools for long term behavioral...

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Protect Yourself Against Refined Carbohydrates

Refined carbohydrates (refined carbs) may be considered a man-made dietary hazard. Numerous chronic diseases are promoted by refined carbohydrates. These include obesity, effort angina, hypertension, type 2 diabetes, arthritis and others. The incidence of excessive body fat and obesity alone is 61% among...

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Vivus Issues Good News on Diet Drug Front

Vivus said two late-stage studies of some 3,750 patients showed those who took Qnexa were able to trim their weight by up to 14.7 percent in one study and 13.2 percent in another compared to a placebo group that lost just 3 percent....

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Stop Counting Calories and Start Losing Body Fat

One can argue that the consumer of the diet drinks should gain more body fat than the consumer of olive oil because the daily caloric intake is higher in the consumer of the diet drinks. This type of thinking may make sense if...