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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 [...]

Afraid to Go Bathing Suit Buying? Tips on How to Buy a Bathing Suit

June 4, 2010 Read the full article →

It’s a common concern of many women as summer approaches. They want to feel comfortable in a bathing suit, have fun, and are also anxious about the whole prospect. Life is short and everyone has the right to enjoy it. That’s why buying a bathing suit should not be an experience that will get in [...]

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 [...]

Be a Smart Consumer of Diets

March 17, 2010 Read the full article →

The latest obesity statistics tell us that more than 64 percent of Americans are overweight or obese. It’s also still true that 90 percent of dieting attempts fail. Yet the United States produces more diets and diet products than any other country, an industry that makes billions of dollars each year. Add it all up [...]

The Truth About Diet Pills

January 25, 2010 Read the full article →

Recently, on the Dr. Oz Show, diet pills were discussed.  Dr. Oz had several guests on the show who had used different types of diet pills and found the experience to be a disappointing one and, in some cases, a potentially dangerous one. Appetite suppressants are a popular diet aid these days but it’s not [...]

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