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Nutrition

Easy Ways to Sneak More Fruits and Vegetables Into Your Diet

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The best diet is one that does not leave you hungry, and fruits and vegetables are a great way to satisfy your appetite without consuming empty calories. Packed with essential vitamins and nutrients your body needs, fruits and vegetables are also healthy.  In fact, the USDA recommends that adults consume nine to thirteen servings of [...]

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Combating Comfort Eating

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When you’re having a bad day, feeling lonely or dealing with a disappointment, what foods do you crave? If you’re like most people, your “comfort foods” are probably dishes loaded with fats and sugary carbs –foods like macaroni and cheese, biscuits and gravy, double bacon cheeseburgers, chocolate cake and pecan pie. Unless raw veggies are [...]

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Are You the Parent of an Overweight Child?

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According to the Centers for Disease Control, 33 percent of U.S. children and adolescents are overweight or obese. The obesity rate has tripled since the 1960s, and many parents are unknowingly contributing to the epidemic. If you’re the mother or father of an overweight child, consider the following behaviors that may be making your child [...]

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Start Your Day Right–With Breakfast!

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If you’re like many dieters and weight loss clinic patients, you may be tempted to skip breakfast. If you don’t eat those calories now, you can afford a bigger lunch, right? Wrong. Most breakfast skippers find themselves so hungry by mid-morning that they raid the fridge, the junk food drawer or the office vending machine [...]

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Activities that Sabotage Weight Loss

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When you first begin a weight loss program, motivation is at an all-time high. It’s easy to envision the positive changes losing weight will bring to your life, from fewer aches and pains, to a healthier heart, to an improved appearance. And there’s nothing like the feeling you have when the numbers on the scale [...]

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Stay Full and Lose Weight

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If you’ve been reading our blog for long, you already know that exercise is an important component of any maintainable weight loss program. While one could create the calorie deficit necessary for weight loss by drastically reducing calorie consumption, it would be done at the risk of proper nutrition and weight loss sustainability. Exercise reduces [...]

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Eating Out While Dieting

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Being on a diet can be a lonely experience. Many engaged in weight loss programs avoid dining out with friends, fearing the difficulty of sticking to their weight loss plan when presented with a menu of off-limits options. If you’ve traditionally been among them, spending quiet evenings at home counting calories instead of social dining [...]

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How to Practice Mindful Eating

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How often do you eat while doing something else, whether working on the computer, driving, watching television or otherwise occupying your mind? If you’re like most busy Americans, you probably multitask pretty frequently –even at mealtimes. Unfortunately, this practice often leads to the consumption of too large portions, too many calories, and purely convenient –rather [...]

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Calories: Friends or Enemies?

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Sun-tzu once said, “Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer.” He was a Chinese general and military strategist, not a dietician, so we can assume he wasn’t talking about calories. However, for the millions of Americans looking for weight loss help, the saying may still apply.
Calories should be our friends. Each one is a [...]

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Five Resolutions That Will Improve Your Health

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Happy New Year! If you’ve stumbled across our blog, you’ve probably resolved to lose weight in 2012. Good for you! However, here are five more resolutions that will also improve your health, both physical and mental. Add them to your list and make 2012 your best year yet.
Resolution #1: Get a handle on stress.
There [...]

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