Slow and Steady Wins the Diet Race

Slow and Steady Wins the Diet Race

Diet & Fitness / Healthy Eating

Have you ever wondered why more than 90 percent of dieters regain weight soon after their weight loss “success”? Dieters who choose a crash diet or extreme weight loss plan might enjoy the instant gratification of quick weight loss, but most end up regaining the lost weight and even a…

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Foods That Fight Aging

Foods That Fight Aging

Diet & Fitness / Healthy Eating

by Laurie Boris The amount of money that Americans spend in an effort to keep their faces youthful and their tummies taut – whether it’s by a plastic surgeon’s blade or by the cosmetologist’s hypodermic of Botox – could rival any line item in President Obama’s economic stimulus package. But…

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Strategies for Eating Healthy at Parties

Strategies for Eating Healthy at Parties

Diet & Fitness / Healthy Eating

Your employer’s having a going away party for the secretary before she goes on maternity leave, you have three birthday parties this weekend and your husband just announced that you’ve been invited to a barbeque at the neighbor’s house. Then again maybe you’re a single twenty something that just seems…

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Worst Dining-Out Choices

Worst Dining-Out Choices

Diet & Fitness / Healthy Eating

Most dieters see dining out as an end to all the good work they’ve done to date. Instead of the enjoyable occasion eating out should be, anyone on a diet will inwardly groan at the prospect of dining out believing that they will have to abandon their diet because there’s…

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Is Fasting Beneficial?

Is Fasting Beneficial?

Diet & Fitness / Healthy Eating

by Amy Daughdrill Fasting has been instituted by people of nearly all faiths as a religious practice since before recorded history. By definition, it is the act of abstaining from food, drink or both for a period of time. As a spiritual practice, it is believed to be an act…

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The Healthiest Frozen Entrees

The Healthiest Frozen Entrees

Diet & Fitness / Healthy Eating

Over worked, short on time? Americans need convenience and frozen dinners provide that to us. It is possible to eat healthy and “zap” a meal! It is almost impossible to choose a frozen dinner, while strolling down the frozen food isle. There are so many choices. You want to look…

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Get Back to Family Dinner

Get Back to Family Dinner

Diet & Fitness / Healthy Eating

by Dr. Lynne Kenney Families today are busy. With after-school sports and other activities driving of our lives, a sit-down dinner often falls off the “to-do list.” But a family dinner is more than just eating vegetables; research shows that sitting down to dinner is an important protective factor in…

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5 Reasons To Go Meatless

5 Reasons To Go Meatless

Diet & Fitness / Healthy Eating

It’s no secret that the American meat-heavy diet could use a serious overhaul. We consume nearly one and a half times more meat than most industrialized nations and use more than 50 percent of our water and land to raise livestock. This heavy reliance on animal protein is taking a…

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