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- 2007-03-29 17:57:04 - Lose weight without starvation!
- Everyone at one point in his or her life needs or wants to loose weight. Whether it is for health reason, or just to feel better about you, deciding on a weight loss plan is not as easy as it sounds.
There are literally thousands of plans and products on the market today designed to help the overweight shed unwanted pounds.
One such plan is the low carb diet plan. On ...
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- 2007-03-29 17:57:04 - Lose weight fast for a special occasion
- Copyright 2005 Adam Waxler
If you have just a little weight to lose, and want to take it off fast (say, so you can fit into those great pants for your cousin's wedding), there are a number of diets that you can use. Most of these wouldn't be recommended for long-term weight loss, as they substantially restrict your intake of some essential nutrients, so using them habitually may not...
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- 2007-03-29 17:57:04 - Living with your diet
- Recently, I was reading about a diet plan where you throw everything out of your pantry.
Although this sounds like great news for the supermarkets, over the short-term, this leaves very few choices for you to actually eat.
Can you exist on salad, topped with Flax seed oil dressing, for the rest of your life?
People believe that they must pay penance for...
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- 2007-03-29 17:57:04 - Listen up: listen your way to a better diet
- The battle against the bulge isn't an easy one. Most people these days are trying to eat healthier but it's tough to keep up with the onslaught of diet-related information and to stay motivated to choose nutritious foods. So here's a tip. Listen your way to a better diet.
There are some excellent audio books available on the subject of nutrition. Try popping one of these into your c...
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- 2007-03-29 17:57:04 - Junk foods kill.
- All of the following are health hazards.
Fatty foods
High salt levels
Sugar and most artificial sweeteners.
Americans now consume roughly 25 times as much sugar and equivalents as was typical around 1900, which is not healthful. Refined sugar, high fructose syrup, and the
three major artificial "no calorie" sweeteners (aspartame, s...
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- 2007-03-29 17:57:04 - Is your hoodia fake
- The diet supplement Hoodia Gordonii has gotten a lot of press lately. It has been featured on the news show 60 Minuets, and more recently on the Today Show. With all the buzz surrounding Hoodia and its ability to control ones appetite it didn't take long for diet pill makers to jump on the Hoodia bandwagon.
While it shouldn't surprise anyone that these companies would want to includ...
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- 2007-03-29 17:57:04 - Is the new ?high-protein low-saturated fat? diet the answer to weight loss?
- The heated debate, within diet circles, that began a few years ago and continues today is over the effectiveness of the high-protein, low-carbohydrate, type diet versus its counterpart, the high-carbohydrate, low-fat diet.
To the delight of the Atkins diet enthusiasts, recent studies have suggested that a diet high in protein and low in fat has a greater effect on diet induced therm...
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- 2007-03-29 17:57:04 - Is low-carb weight loss really just water loss?
- By Craig Whitley
Diets and Weight Loss Plans
A Daily Blog for Dieter's
Any weight loss or diet plan, including low-carb plans like the induction phase of the Atkins Diet will result in water loss during the first week or two. However, one of the real beauties of following a low carbohydrate eating plan is that most of the weight loss than extends beyond...
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- 2007-03-29 17:57:04 - Is eating a raw food diet actually healthy for you?
- Whatever diet you choose to live by, the food you eat has to provide your body with the nourishment to properly balance your body's chemistry. If you have health challenges, are overweight or obese, chances are you are not in balance at all. The typical North American diet is woefully out of balance. Even what are commonly considered as healthy diets, such as low fat, vegetarien and vegan diets ca...
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- 2007-03-29 17:57:04 - Irritable bowel syndrome diet
- Irritable bowel syndrome is a frequently diagnosed condition in this country. Approximately 10 to 20% of people have this condition. Women account for almost 70% of this group. This condition causes explosive diarrhoea, constipation and abdominal pain as well as other symptoms. There is no cure for irritable bowel syndrome so one of the best and easiest ways to treat this condition is through the ...
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- 2007-03-29 17:57:04 - How to treat high cholesterol safely
- Cholesterol may differ depending on the lifestyle, gender or the heritage of the individual. Every one of us can do certain things to live healthier, longer lives. One of those alternatives includes maintaining cholesterol at the right level. However, the truth is even young, thin, physically fit people can have high levels of cholesterol, even though chances of higher levels amplify due to certai...
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- 2007-03-29 17:57:04 - How to lose weight easily, increase health with a fast, tasty diet
- If you are looking for a way to lose fifteen pounds in two weeks, a high protein diet, a low carb diet, a fruit diet, a no fat diet, a blood type diet, a juice fast, a diet named after a place in Miami, a grapefruit diet, a cactus diet, a coffee and cigarette diet, a diet that includes sweets, a diet based on your body type, a diet based on an ancient religion or a diet based on your hair color, t...
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- 2007-03-29 17:57:04 - How to eliminate weight loss failure by lifting weights: the secret everyone ignores
- Many times, when one begins a new fat loss regime; they focus on dieting (hopefully intelligent dieting, not fad diets or very low calorie diets) and hopefully an exercise regime. Most of the time, to accomplish fat loss, people seem to believe that aerobic (aka. cardio) training in addition to a moderate reduction in calories is the best course of action to accomplish this. The main goal is to cr...
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- 2007-03-29 17:57:04 - How hard is it to diet
- Advising on the best opinion in relation to diet.
Often when you are looking for high-class advice concerning diet, it'll be complex extracting the best information from unprofessional diet proposals and guidance so it is wise to recognize how to moderate the information you are presented with.
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Utilizing the Optifast system to assist in weight loss...
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- 2007-03-29 17:57:04 - How diet influences cancer risk
- Diet is a double edged sword. Improper diet increases the risk of cancer but a proper, well balanced diet reduces the cancer risk.
Diet is one of the most important lifestyle factors and has been estimated to account for up to 80% of cancers of the large bowel, breast, and prostate. Diet affects the risk of many other cancers, including cancers of the lung, prostate, stomach, esopha...
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- 2007-03-29 17:57:04 - High energy food illustrations
- Take a raw carrot, and hold it to a bare flame. Nothing much happens except some charring and bad smell.
Place some liquid fat (oils) in a shallow dish prepared with a wick. Touch a match to the saturated wick, and observe the heat and light that results. This is one of the oldest kinds of light source known to humankind.
Take some solid fat, meat trimmings or tallow,...
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- 2007-03-29 17:57:04 - Here's a diet that won't work
- How's this for a diet: Take in fewer calories than you expend and you'll lose weight. I just read another article that suggested this as the sure-fire way to lose weight. Of course it's true, and about as useful as telling an alcoholic he can beat his problem by not drinking. Yeah, right.
Have you noticed that almost every diet is guaranteed to work if you follow it? Of course, it's...
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- 2007-03-29 17:57:04 - Healthy eating for vegetarians and vegans
- Study after study has revealed the importance of a balanced diet to good health. Eating a balanced diet, one that is rich in all the various minerals and vitamins needed for a healthy body, can present quite a challenge for vegetarians and vegans.
That is because maintaining a good balanced diet in the absence of one entire food group, such as meat and poultry, can be difficult. Mea...
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- 2007-03-29 17:57:04 - Healthy eating for a healthy body
- Healthy eating means many things to many people, and everyone has different goals for the perfect diet. The key to following a healthy diet is to find a diet you can stick with for the rest of your life. A diet should not be simply a temporary change in the way you life, eat and exercise. Rather, it should be a permanent change that you can live with day in and day out, year in and year out....
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- 2007-03-29 17:57:04 - Healthy eating: a key component of a healthy lifestyle
- Why is healthy eating so important?
You hear a lot today about the benefits of living a healthier lifestyle. It's all over the media ... almost everywhere you look. You can't turn around without hearing about low carb diets, such as The Atkins diet, the South Beach Diet, The Zone Diet, and lots of other healthy eating trends for losing weight and other benefits.
So is...
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- 2007-03-29 17:57:04 - Health news as source for laughs
- Google News can be entertaining (http://news.google.com/).
Late August 2004 headlines show that at least some USA government experts understand the difference between "good" and "bad" sugars. However, they stopped short of telling us to limit refined sugar intake, in updated dietary guidelines for 2005.
Co...
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- 2007-03-29 17:57:04 - Have you been looking for the latest and accurate advice regarding low carb diets.
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When you are after excellent advice about low carb diets, it will be easier said than done separating quality information from poorly sourced low carb diets suggestions and help so it's best to know ways of moderating the information offered to you.
Here's several tips which we advise you to use when you are trying to find information about low carb diets. Please understand ...
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- 2007-03-29 17:57:04 - Gastric bypass surgery ? get your vitamins!
- Gastric bypass patients face a great task in the following months and years after surgery, most of which includes monumental lifestyle changes in comparison to their old habits and methods. The most important of all, given that gastric bypass patients have a new, tiny stomach to fill is diet. Similar to how those on a diet of any kind, the body will be taking in less food then usual and so it's cr...
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- 2007-03-29 17:57:04 - Garlic for health
- Garlic is a traditional tonic in many cultures.
In my teens and twenties, I was very aware that one should not eat garlic or onions out of respect for other people (e.g., bosses or potential dates). However, garlic breath does not bother me nearly so much as the foul stenches caused by tobacco use, lazy dental care, lack of exercise,
obesity, and / or poor bowel regularity....
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- 2007-03-29 17:57:04 - Frequently asked questions about weight loss and diets
- If you're on a diet, or considering going on one, you're in luck. We've put together ten of the most frequently asked questions about diets and weight loss and compiled them here. Enjoy!
1. How much should I weigh?
Your doctor can answer that question most accurately. More important than how much you weigh is your body/mass index, which measures your height against your weigh...
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- 2007-03-29 17:57:04 - Food intolerance and low carb diets
- Food intolerance is a pharmacological reaction to the consumption of certain foods. In many cases, food intolerance may appear to be the side-effect of pharmacological drugs, but in fact, it is generally caused by the consumption of natural foods products, additives, or the combination of both.
The majority of food products that commonly cause food intolerance are high-protein....
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- 2007-03-29 17:57:04 - Fda announces rule prohibiting sale of dietary supplements containing ephedrine alkaloids effective april 12
- The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced today that the final rule on dietary supplements containing ephedrine alkaloids is effective immediately. The rule, which was published on February 11, 2004 in the Federal Register, declares dietary supplements containing ephedrine alkaloids (ephedra) adulterated because such supplements present an unreasonable risk of illness or injury.
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- 2007-03-29 17:57:04 - Fat burner myths
- A surprisingly high number of books by physicians and nutritional consultants teach that foods in combinations, or special supplements, can "turn up your fat burners". Publications by the Mayo Clinic, US Government, and other reliable sources all say this is TOTAL NONSENSE.
If one could ignore calories and eat "fat burner" foods to lose weight, the combinations would have to work th...
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- 2007-03-29 17:57:04 - Fast diet fraud
- Under the theory that "seeing is believing", people continue to buy books and pills for dramatic weight loss in 7 days, or 4 weeks, or some other rather short interval. What should be checked is how much weight loss remains effective in one year.
There are several reasons for this caution.
Recognize that the ability to store calories as fat is pro survival, when the f...
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- 2007-03-29 17:57:04 - Fast and easy weight loss using diet programs and diet pills
- If you're one of the approximately 67% of Americans that are wired into the internet, there's a good chance that sometime in the last 24 hours you've received at least one spam email promoting the latest and greatest diet pill or weight loss program. These diet products promise fast weight loss results, often without any effort or exercise. The never-ending promise of a weight loss pill that actua...