Tips for Making Healthier Food Choices

Tips for Making Healthier Food Choices

Healthier food choices begin with learning what’s in your food. Start to make a habit of reading nutritional labels to learn how much fat, calories, and other ingredients are in the things you eat. You might be surprised at what kind of chemicals, fats, etc. your food really contains and how many calories you are actually eating in a

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Standard American Diet Attributed to Obesity and Poor Health

Standard American Diet

The Standard American Diet is one that focuses on food for pleasure and convenience, rather than being a diet that encourages good health. The daily caloric content of this diet is high, generally around 2500 calories for the average

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Measuring Weight Loss with Waist-to-Hip Ratio

Measuring Weight Loss

It can help for you to take measurements of your waist and your hips frequently as you lose weight. This way, even if the scale does not show that you are losing weight, you can see when you are losing inches and body

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Anti-Cancer Drug Added to Junk Foods

There is public concern regarding the addition of an anti-cancer drug called asparaginase to junk foods, such as potato chips.

Health Canada announced today that they are contemplating allowing food companies to add an anti-cancer drug to junk foods. This cancer-fighting drug called asparaginase is an enzyme that is used in patients with leukemia and some other types of

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Health Problems Associated with Being Overweight

Losing weight, even as little as 10 to 20 pounds, can drastically reduce your chances of developing some types of life-threatening conditions and diseases.

There is a number of serious health problems associated with being overweight and obese. Losing weight to reduce your chances of developing one or more of these diseases in your lifetime, combined with the fact that you will have more energy and feel healthier, is all you should need to get motivated to make some

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3-A-Day of Dairy Weight Loss Program

The 3-A-Day of Dairy Weight Loss Program by the National Dairy Council is a calorie-reduced diet combined with at least three servings of dairy per day.

The 3-A-Day of Dairy weight loss campaign is a new diet program that was created by way of a partnership between WebMD’s Weight Loss Clinic and the National Dairy

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Weight Loss Strengthens Immune System

Although it is not the be all end all to avoiding the flu or a cold, losing weight can help boost your immune system.

Even though losing weight won’t guarantee you will avoid the flu and other bugs, these studies do give us another good reason to shed our excess

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Zerose – A New Zero-Calorie Sweetener

Zerose is a relatively new artificial sweetener that contains zero calories and is organic.

Zerose sweetener is the latest in zero-calorie sweeteners, and is a brand name used by Cargill for erythritol. This chemical is different from other no calorie sweeteners because it is the only natural polyol sugar alternative that does not have any

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Cinnamon Prevents Insulin Resistance

Cinnamon has many health benefits, but one that is important for weight loss is its ability to prevent and reverse insulin resistance.

Cinnamon is more than just a spice that can be added to food or drinks to give them an extra tasty flavor. One of its most important benefits from a weight loss and health perspective is that it cinnamon prevents insulin

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Exercise + Healthy Diet = Weight Loss

When trying to lose weight it is not only important to exercise, but also follow a calorie-restricted and healthy diet.

Exercise + Healthy Diet = Weight Loss. This equation, one which seems completely common sense, has been the center of conversation lately because some say that exercise may cause weight gain and work against your weight loss efforts. This misleading fact about losing weight was recently promoted in a Time Magazine article “Why Exercise Won’t Make You Thin” and has been at the center of some fiery

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