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Current diet articles and a personal advice concerned with weight loss, diet and nutrition. Analysis and thought-provoking articles about obesity and weight gain
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Is your food personality making you fat
Are you a Cocktail Party Princess who nibbles her way through a different event every night or a Fast-Food Fiend who grabs Chinese takeout and crashes on the couch? Either way, your evening eating routine could be sabotaging your weight-loss efforts
16-Feb-2005 -
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Lose Weight by Sleeping
Do you feel that you need to lose weight? Well then don’t just count calories. You might want to count sheep as well.Recent studies have shown that sleep deprivation disrupts a series of metabolism and hormonal processes. It causes increased hunger and affects the body’s metabolism making it difficult to lose and control weight
19-Feb-2005 -
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Diet affecting eyesight
Poor diets and unhealthy lifestyles aren't just making us fat and giving us heart disease, they are damaging our eyesight too
19-Feb-2005 -
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Diet and Depression Linked
An Australian researcher has been granted funds to study the link between food and depression. Ms Jacka said Australians' diets were high in refined carbohydrates and sugars from products such as soft drinks, white rice, white bread and baked and fried food
19-Feb-2005 -
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10 Reasons You NEED Breakfast
Is it an old wives' tale, or is breakfast the most important meal of the day? OK, your mom always made you eat hot lumpy cereal in the morning, so as soon as you escaped her clutches, you developed the coffee
19-Feb-2005 -
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Weight loss Facts and Figures
Do you know there is a direct relation between the amount of time you spend in front of the TV and the amount of junk food you eat? So switch off the TV and instead, take a walk around your block.
19-Feb-2005 -
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Lose Weight - Nutrition Guide
Proper nutrition is an area of confusion for most people. With all of the conflicting information in the media and all of the fad diets out there, it is hard to know how to eat right. Eating right comes down to eating the proper balance of the three main compounds that make up our food: carbohydrates, proteins and fats. Knowing the balance is the first step, knowing the right foods to eat within these groups is the next.
20-Feb-2005 -
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Are You Overweight
In the summer of 1998, the National Institutes of Health released a landmark set of guidelines that can be used to correlate risk of chronic health problems with obesity and weight-related risk factors. The guidelines were established by a panel of field experts and are based on the most extensive review of obesity-related research
24-Feb-2005 -
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7 Day Diet for Quick Weight Loss
Yet another fad diet. It's not balanced, is monotonous and would be difficult to stick to for long. It's a very low calorie diet that results in fast water and lean muscle loss. Quick weight loss returns just as quickly
24-Feb-2005 -
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Sumo Wrestlers: This is How You Get Fat
There's only one sport where they actually aim to gain as much body fat as possible: Sumo Wrestling. According to this article - here is what a sumo wrestler does to get fat:
21-Mar-2005 -
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How to lose Weight
Most health experts recommend a combination of a reduced-calorie diet and increased physical activity for weight loss. In addition to helping to control weight, physical activity decreases the risk of dying from coronary heart disease and reduces the risk of developing diabetes, hypertension, and certain cancers. Researchers also have found that daily physical activity may help a person lose weight by partially lessening the slow-down in metabolism that occurs during weight loss
01-Mar-2005 -
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Losing Weight: Start By Counting Calories
Americans are getting fatter. We're putting on the pounds at an alarmingly rapid rate. And we're sacrificing our health for the sake of super-sized portions, biggie drinks, and two-for-one value meals, obesity researchers say. More than 60 percent of U.S. adults are overweight, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). And about 15 percent of children and adolescents ages 6 to 19 are overweight...
01-Mar-2005 -
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The Dieting Controversy
No matter where you turn - everyone has an opinion on various diets.
If we believed everyone we'd eat nothing and starve to death - so where is the truth?
I believe that nutrition is individualistic, and different things work for different people.
Yes, people have rebounded even after using some of the safest and most "balanced" diets.
For most of the last decade or two, conventional science and health authorities have preached the message of a high-carb, low-protein, low-fat diet as being the ONLY way to go.
02-May-2005 -
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Can A High-Fiber Diet Prevent Obesity
While diets low in carbohydrates and high in protein continue to attract the public's attention, researchers at the University of Texas - Austin report that "normal-weight" adults tend to eat more fiber and fruit than people who are overweight or obese.
05-Jun-2006 -
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Healthy eating is vital for children
Children learn eating habits from their parents. A child that is given regular balanced meals and healthy snacks will eat the same way during adulthood.
11-Mar-2005 -
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How to eat healthy and lose weight
Are you confused about how to lose weight the healthy way? Haveyou tried all the fad diets on the market and still are frustratedabout weight loss? Do you know just how much protein is enough?
11-Mar-2005 -
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Fitness Extra: 4 Great Fat Burners
In reality, there is no "best" exercise to burn fat because it’s more of an issue related to sufficient intensity and consistency which helps to speed the metabolism. Not necessarily the exercise itself
11-Mar-2005 -
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Why Dieting is Keeping America Fat
There are literally hundreds of diets available to suit everyone's taste: Atkins, Zone, South Beach, low carb, low fat, liquid mixes, vegetarian, all protein. Millions of us are on these different diets. So why are we still fat?
18-Apr-2005 -
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