How Colors affect Hunger and Appetite

Research indicates that bright colors, such as reds and greens, are more appetizing than dark colors, such as purples and blues.

If you are looking for a new way to decrease your portion sizes at meals without battling your hunger then adding appetite suppressant colors, such as blues, purples and blacks can have a significant

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Weight Loss Benefits of Protein

Eating foods rich in protein, such as eggs and fish, benefit weight loss by stabilizing blood sugar levels and curbing hunger.

When you are trying to lose weight you need to do what you can to curb hunger by feeding your body foods that take longer to process and don’t cause spikes in blood sugar. One of the best weight loss foods is protein and increasing the amount of protein that you eat in your daily diet can be the key to your dieting

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Weight Loss Blogging: The Best Dieting Tips I've Learned

This week marks my one year weight loss blogging anniversary. In this post I share the best dieting tips I have learned over the past year.

Now that I’m calming down from my excitement from this morning’s weigh in I can begin to reflect on what I have learned over the past year of blogging. As I’m searching through my old posts and reading through some of my favorites, I feel that today would be perfect for pointing out the best dieting tips I’ve learned over the past

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Leptin and Weight loss: How the Fat Hormone Affects Hunger and Metabolism

Leptin, a hormone that is produced by fat cells, may be regulated with a low-carb diet and better sleep.

Leptin is a hormone produced by fat cells and found in the blood plasma. One area of growing interest lately has been in determining the exact role that the hormone leptin plays in regulating metabolism and

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How Protein Curbs Hunger

One of the easiest and healthiest ways to curb hunger during the day is to eat some protein with your breakfast and lunch meals.

One of the best things about protein, other than it being essential for good health and rebuilding muscle tissue, is that protein curbs hunger. If you have ever been on the Atkins Diet or the South Beach Diet, you may already know

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Low Calorie Lunch Ideas

Try these three nutritious, low calorie lunch ideas that contain approximately 400 calories each.

As you can see from these three low calorie lunch ideas, there is an unlimited number of foods that you can combine together to make a delicious and low-cal, noon-time meal. These meals will help to keep you full until dinner, perhaps with only one small snack in between, and give you energy for work and

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Charities that Fight Hunger

When so many of us are spending money to lose weight, it makes sense to also help support charities that combat hunger and improve the lives of others.

Many of us become so engrossed in our own lives that we fail to look outwards and seek ways to help others. For this reason, today, because I realize that I have so much and should be giving back much more, I would like to explore some charities that fight

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Weight Loss with Fat Burners

Effective fat burners raise your metabolic rate and help you to lose fat from stubborn areas such as abdomen and thighs.

If you are hoping to experience rapid weight loss with fat burners then your approach to losing weight is already dooming you to failure. It is true that some fat burners can help you to lose more weight, but they are only a temporary weight loss

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How Dehydration Affects Metabolism

If you do not drink enough water to keep your body properly hydrated your metabolism will slow down.

Your metabolism will slow if you are even slightly dehydrated, and three fourths of the population is always dehydrated without knowing it. Even if it only slows it down a little bit, this can be a problem when you are trying to lose

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What Causes Hunger Pangs

Hunger Pangs are a nagging desire to eat that can be caused by both physiological and pshychological triggers, such as the sight of a favorite food.

Hunger pangs are used to describe the contractions of your empty stomach as it expresses its great upset in being left unfed. You may think that it is your stomach to blame for these feelings, but actually there are many causes of hunger pangs that have nothing to do with your nagging

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