Body

Don’t Trust Your Senses if You Want to Lose Weight

We’d like to think that we can trust our senses to inform us of what is going on around us. We would hope that this would be particularly true as we try to lose weight. We want to believe that our eyes will recognize huge portions that we should eat only a part of, that [...]

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Study Shows Vegans Are Slimmer

With all of the talk about weight loss on the Web, in magazines and on television, it’s hard to know where to start. When a solid scientific study is done on a large sample size over a long period of time, you should pay attention. A recent mammoth study that built on data from 87 [...]

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Harvard Study Reveals Two Main Foods for Weight Loss

There is a lot of chatter about what is key to losing weight. Websites boast about chemicals that you can take that supposedly suck fat out of your body. Blogs blare about exercise routines that enable you to eat whatever you want and sweat it off later. And then you have the marketers who push [...]

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Finding the Right Diet to Match Your Food Personality, Part Two

Part of the reason why two out of three people who diet end up gaining all of their weight back (or more) is because diets impose a certain menu of foods and do not take into account the personal preferences of the dieter, the long-time habits that s/he has acquired. Diets that can work off [...]

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Finding the Right Diet to Match Your Food Personality, Part One

Do diets always have to feel like work? Maybe not. Do they always have to require you to eat foods that you can hardly stomach and forbid the ones you cherish? Perhaps not. Could the reason that diets often work so poorly be that they start with a menu that the dieter has never given the [...]

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Symptoms You Should Not Ignore, Part 2

As stated in the last post, all “good” excuses for not going to the doctor are hereby outlawed if you have any of the symptoms discussed below. A recent poll of medical professionals found a handful of symptoms that absolutely, positively should not be ignored. Here are three more that you need to keep an [...]

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Symptoms You Should Not Ignore, Part 1

There are any number of (bad) reasons why you don’t go to the doctor more. You don’t have insurance or you don’t want to pay the co-pay or you’re afraid that it’s a waste of money or you don’t want to ask for the time off, blah blah blah. You can get away with all [...]

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What Trainers to the Stars Recommend for You

That celebrity that you wish you looked like? She didn’t get that tight body by herself. She has a trainer on her paid staff who pushes her a lot harder than she wants to go. She puts up with the trainer because she knows that she makes her living thanks to her body. If she [...]

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Your First Steps in Your New Exercise Routine, Part Two

In part one of this series, we discussed how to get your new exercise routine off to a great start by making it a social affair and not overdoing it early. These two pieces of advice have helped many a new fitness buff to create the type of exercise routine that they can actually stick [...]

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Your First Steps in Your New Exercise Routine, Part One

The New Year is about to roll around and you’ve read enough preachy articles about how you need to exercise regularly and eat right to achieve that killer body that you want. You want that body not just because it will attract more guys, but because you are sick of looking in the mirror and [...]

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