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Nutrition

To Keep Weight Off, Don’t Fall For Fad Diet Myths

July 21, 2010 Read the full article →

Weight-loss talk is heard too often these days. If there’s a new fad diet going around, you hear about it and its so-called “successes.” • Weight-loss success ought to be defined not by how much weight has been lost, but by how long the weight loss is maintained. • People who have had long-term success [...]

Is Eating Out Making You Fat?

July 6, 2010 Read the full article →

// How to Minimize the Fattening Effects of Going Out to Eat Americans like to eat out a lot. Unfortunately, eating out can get in the way of managing our weight. There are ways, however, to lessen its caloric impact. Eating out can be fun and flavorful but it can also be fattening. Restaurants are [...]

Weight Loss Nutrition Made Easy

July 6, 2010 Read the full article →

How to Eat Healthy Food Without Measuring, Weighing, or Counting Diets that involve rigid measuring, weighing or counting never last. But there are simple and fun ways of improving nutrition without becoming a scholar on the subject. Who wants to be bothered with studying up on nutrition to eat better or lose weight? Learning about [...]

Can’t Stick to a Diet? Understanding Why Diets Fail

June 4, 2010 Read the full article →

People usually think it’s their fault they haven’t been able to stick to a diet. However, it’s not a lack of willpower. It has more to do with the brain. It’s a well-known fact that 90% of dieting attempts fail. Considering that over 60% of Americans are overweight or obese (Centers for Disease Control and [...]

Can Talking to Yourself Help You Lose Weight?

June 2, 2010 Read the full article →

As humans, we go about our lives with a constant dialogue in our heads. Most of the time, we’re unaware that we talk to ourselves continually about what is going on around us. We evaluate, judge, make comments, and even rejoice, at times – all in the privacy of our brain. No one else is [...]

A Mother’s Gift to Your Young Daughter

June 2, 2010 Read the full article →

In the late 1960’s and 70’s Twiggy became the first prominent teenage model. She weighed 90 pounds and was the idol of 14 and 15 year-old girls at the time. Her body had no curves, no appreciable fat, and a twig-like appearance. I was an adolescent during that era myself and remember well the huge [...]

Turn to the Experts — Thin People Who Have Never Dieted — For Weight-loss Ideas

April 19, 2010 Read the full article →

It seems there’s nothing like dropping a few pounds to turn somebody into an instant dieting expert. Everywhere you go, you can hear people talking about their latest dieting exploits and advising others on what they should do to lose weight. “You should try the X Diet. My sister went on it and lost a [...]

Let Fun Motivate You to Exercise, Eat Right

April 5, 2010 Read the full article →

It’s human nature to want to have fun. Fun is pleasurable and pleasure is motivating. • When we have fun at something, we want to do it again. And we don’t even need any other incentives like money or awards. Just plain fun is enough on its own. • Adults like to see children enjoying [...]

How to Lose Weight for Life

March 21, 2010 Read the full article →

I was recently asked to write a series of articles for a publication with wide readership. I was pleasantly surprised to find that the editor was interested in my writing because she recognized that too much unrealistic information about dieting is directed at people every day. She wanted sensible discussion that was effective and realistic. [...]

How to Control Hunger

February 12, 2010 Read the full article →

Hunger is a normal body signal. The body uses hunger to signal when it needs fuel. It’s possible, however, to mess up this natural and adaptive function and many people do it by stringent, yo-yo dieting and subscribing to dieting myths. If a person has never dieted they don’t give a second thought to hunger. [...]

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