Many of you know that dieting is a fool’s errand for many of us. We can go for a period of time, usually short enough that it can fit between major holidays or events, and …
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Help the Kids Cut the Sugar Habit
This is a great article with sound advice on how to help your kids – and maybe you – cut the sugar habit. Some good facts, good pointers but one really solid, absolutely essential bit …
On Thinness, Weight Management, and Stupid Subtitles
A recent study, linked below, addresses the different attitudes and lifestyle choices of those who are thin vs those who are dieting to be thinner, we presume. The study’s press release has a few unaddressed …
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Eggs – or at Least One Egg – Won’t Kill You
It came out last year or so that eating cholesterol-rich foods ain’t as bad as they once thought. Now this says an egg a day won’t kill you…but the bacon, well, they just don’t know …
Eat Nuts, Reduce Cholesterol, and Prevent Diabetes
How is it possible for one food item – in particular, nut oils – to virtually do what so many drugs portend to do? How can nuts do so much for so little without so …
Plan Ahead: How to Create a Wellness Habit
Everyone kind of knows that getting started and keeping going with an exercise, or diet, program is the hardest part. Even though I encourage all newcomers to just start small – like 10 mins/day of …
New Year’s Fitness Resolutions
It happens every year around this time, as people wallow and wail about their having fallen off the wagon of fitness, diet, and even health: The infamous if not ridiculously self-abnegating New Year’s Resolution to …
The Weight Loss Conundrum, Continued: Diet vs Exercise…or Both?
The latest controversy, which we’ve seen played out over the past 30 years, comes to you from two doctors: one, a pediatrician, the other a researcher in weight management. The former wrote in the NY …
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The Brain-Hunger Complex: How Obesity Alters the Brain and Vice Versa
Two articles in Health Canal, an online health blog of recent scientific publications, prompt me to comment as this issue is rapidly coming to the forefront of the obesity crisis. The first identifies functions within …
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Why It’s So Hard to Lose Weight (originally posted 10/27/11)
Much has been written about dieting, exercising, or combining the two for effective weight loss. Many a book, and many an author, have pretended to know the answer for the vast majority of those carrying …
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