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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 [...]

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.  [...]

How to Control Compulsive Eating

September 21, 2009 Read the full article →

If I’m not strict with myself I feel that I will lose all control and never be able to stop eating. What do I do? This is a fear that many people have. They fear that if they let go of their rigid dieting ways that they will compulsively eat forever.  However, the data doesn’t [...]

Food Addiction: Fact or Fiction

May 4, 2009 Read the full article →

Food problems and addictions are  similar only on the surface. “Overeating and drug addiction may converge on some of the same neurons,” says Endocrinologist Barbara Kahn. “but other pathways are also involved. And from a biochemical point of view, the two are not the same thing. Drug addictions are much stronger.” Unfortunately for people who [...]