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  • Just “Add a Carrot” for Great Weight Loss
    Here’s the problem: so many of us have busy lives nowadays, what with work, family, and social life – and there’s no good way to make our lives less busy than they are; nor do we want to, most of the time!
  • Lose Weight with Chromium Supplements
    Part of the new generation of diet pills – a great, great improvement over the older style of diet pill, that was essentially a barbiturate – includes naturally occurring substances, such as vitamin, mineral or herbal supplements. In general, people feel safer with these natural substances than they ever would with pharmaceutical drugs, though this confidence is sometimes misplaced.
  • Lose Weight with the Semolina Diet
    Most weight loss plans are difficult precisely because they involve taking away food – and depending on the psychological issues that may have been at the root of your weight gain in the first place, this can be a particularly challenging thing to do.
  • Food Labels: Fact or Fiction
    It’s a proven fact that a manufacturer is in business because they make a profit off the items they sell to the consumer. This has been a known fact since the inception of manufactured food.
  • Lose Weight with the South Beach Diet
    The South Beach Diet is one of the most publicized diets of recent decades. Developed by a Florida cardiologist, Arthur Agatston, the diet is one that emphasizes natural foods, ‘good’ (that is, complex) carbohydrates, and ‘good’ fats. In other words, this is a diet that has the potential, at least, to be very healthy...
  • Natural Diet Pills for Weight Loss – How Safe are They?
    Many of us have heard horror stories about the ‘diet pills’ that were popular a generation or so ago. These pills, available with a prescription, were basically ‘speed’ – which, in a slightly different form, was sold as a street drug.
  • Weight Loss – The Sleep Prescription
    There are many reasons why people are more overweight nowadays than they ever have been before. It is true – as a society, obesity is becoming epidemic, and it’s starting to affect people of all ages. The fact that more children are obese nowadays is especially worrying, for example.
  • Easy Weight Loss – Small Steps that Make a Big Difference
    If you have a significant amount of weight to lose – say 20 pounds or more – the task ahead of you can seem very daunting. Is it any wonder that so many people try to put it off, or to deny that the problem is as serious as it really is?
  • Lose Weight with a Bi-Annual Cleanse
    Over time, a great way to lose weight and improve your health overall is to do a ‘cleanse’ once or (preferably) twice a year. This is the idea: over time, especially for those of us who don’t always eat healthy foods, toxins from the food, as well as from the modern world, accumulate in your body.
  • Eating Binges – A Fact of Human Life?
    The eating binge is something that’s well known to most of us – especially those of us who are struggling to lose weight. In extreme cases, binge eating is even a disorder – people seem to lose control of their eating, concentrating on a single food group and consuming literally thousands of calories in a very short period of time.
  • Vegetables: The Healthier Snack
    The easiest place to affect our health is through our eating habits; in fact it’s the most effective solution to better health, sharing the spotlight with exercise. What about our food intake? What choices do we have to make eating a healthier occurrence?
  • What About Salads?
    In case you’re not a salad lover, let me be one of the first to tell you that you’re missing one of the most delicious foods a person can consume.
  • Our National Obesity Epidemic
    You see it everyday, news and information that bring to the front our problem with our weight. It is a national problem. It’s not just your older sedentary population; it’s not just your overworked middle-age population; and it’s not just your nerdy teenage population. It is a national epidemic.
  • The ABC’s of Eating
    The ABC’s of Eating would be a great title for an education course that addresses all of the food groups, the benefits and detriments of those groups and how to ascertain what our individual needs are from each category.

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