Fat Saturday – The Best Day To Gain Weight

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There’s so much talk about losing weight that it’s hard to tell who is telling the truth. Commercials give us a steady stream of statements that we are supposed to take as fact, yet they offer no citations for their veracity. The Web is chock full of advice on losing weight, again often coming from [...]

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Reading to Lose Weight

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Did you ever think that reading could lead to weight loss? Well, it can. What matters is what you read. Several recent scientific studies have indicated that if you read certain labels and objects a little more closely then you will lose weight. Let me be more clear: you need to read labels on food [...]

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Walk Your Way to Weight Loss, Part Two

The first post in this series made a powerful case for walking as your choice of exercise to lose weight. We agreed that the “brisk” exercise option was not very practical and it could cost you a heap of money as well. We also established that if you choose to do a less taxing form [...]

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Walk Your Way to Weight Loss, Part One

Perhaps you have wanted to lose weight but have become discouraged as you read all of the advice out there about how to drop pounds. Many of the well-meaning posts and columns advise you to engage in 30+ minutes of brisk exercise three times a week. You say again and again, “I am going to [...]

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Two Places to Stay Away From to Lose Weight

Advice about weight loss often tells you where to go to lose weight: the gym, the running track, a Weight Watchers meeting. Not as many exhortations to lose weight tell you where NOT to go, and still fewer posts are based on solid scientific research. Here are two places that you need to stay away from [...]

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Beautiful Hands and Nails, Even During the Winter

I’ve been neglecting my hands lately: washing dishes without using gloves, running outside in the cold air without mittens,and clipping my nails with a clipper when they crack or break. Then I got my first painful hangnail of the winter—Ouch! I’ve decided to start pampering my hands again before they start looking like my grandmother’s. [...]

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Using Your Brain to Lose Weight

People who lose weight and keep it off and people who ride the diet carousel for years have different approaches to losing weight. People who successfully lose weight have a set of characteristics that those who don’t do not. What differentiates the two groups? Well, the ones who lose weight do so because they use [...]

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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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