Tiny temptations that add on calories. The dessert buffet is extravagant, but you’ve already made a deal with yourself to skip dessert and simply order a cappuccino. But, those tiny cream puffs are so tempting and so little. How can just one hurt? One miniature cream puff = 75 calories. … Read More
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Slim trumps all. More than 50% of people would rather be slimmer than younger—and more a third would give up a year from their lifespan to be thinner. … Read More
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In an annual Gallup Health and Healthcare survey, American men, on average, reported that they weigh 196 pounds. Women say they weigh 160 pounds. Both figures are nearly 20 pounds higher that the average weights reported in 1990. When you ask men what they believe their ideal weight should be they say 181 pounds. Women … Read More
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In the course of one month, if you make each of the swaps below, just once, you save enough calories to lose 1 pound. Instead of a cheese omelet have 2 scrambled eggs – 188 calories saved. Instead of a convenience store, extra-large soda, drink a can of soda – 660 calories saved. Instead of … Read More
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Tiny temptations that add on calories. You eat part of three broken cookies that you are making for the kid’s class party. They are only tiny bites and you deserve them because you got up extra early to bake the cookies before work. Three broken cookie pieces = 50 calories. … Read More
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Start your meal light. A clear or light soup, shrimp cocktail, or a salad with nonfat dressing fills you up and takes time to eat. They help take the edge off your appetite reduce the amount of calories eaten at a meal. … Read More
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Sixty-seven percent of Americans almost always finish the restaurant portions they are served. Men are 4 times more likely to eat everything and restaurant portions are huge, denser in calories, and higher in fat and sodium. Just knowing restaurant meals can be a problem is the first step toward solving it. You don’t have to … Read More
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Humans are programmed through evolution to respond to day and night cycles. We eat and are active during daylight and we rest and sleep in darkness. There is a molecular basis for these rythms and a group of genes called the circadian clock regulates our 24-hour, day/night cycles. Obese individuals often eat at irregular times … Read More
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When it comes to your health size does matter. For men, if your waist measures more than 40 inches (for women 38 inches) you are at greater risk for diabetes, high blood pressure, stroke and other serious health problems. … Read More
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Set your exercise goal. • To improve health = 30 minutes of brisk walking most days of the week. • To lose weight = 60 minutes of exercise most days of the week. • To maintain weight loss = 60 to 90 minutes of walking every day of the week. … Read More
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The Complete Food Counter: New 4th Edition!
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