Weight Loss

150 Healthiest Foods: Almonds

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Lots of protein and fiber make almonds a great weight loss food. A 30-year study of over 100,000 people agrees with me.

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“The Weight of the Nation”: Documentary Sends the Wrong Message

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This week, a new documentary about the obesity crisis premieres on HBO. It’s called “Weight of the Nation”. And it’s take-home message is wrong, wrong, wrong. You’ll be hearing a lot about this documentary, if you haven’t already. And with good reason. It’s the result of an unprecedented collaboration between the three major public-health institutions [...]

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Understand Brain Chemistry to Burn Fat & Beat Cravings

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A new study in the journal Trends in Endocrinology and Metabolism shows your brain finds cheap, high-calorie foods especially rewarding. Researchers here studied brain activity to better understand how your appetite works and, more importantly, how your brain associates reward with the foods you eat. As you might guess, brain chemistry is an incredibly complex [...]

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Sluggish Metabolism or Thyroid Issues? Reach for the Fish Oil!

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Fish oil has become all the rage. If you don’t believe me, check out a recent study in the Journal of Food Science which had researchers infusing fish oil in goat cheese (of all things) to help people get adequate amounts of the two essential fatty acids EPA and DHA. Even mainstream manufacturers are getting [...]

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Low-Glycemic Diet Burns Fat & Keeps You Fuller

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A recent presentation at the Institute of Food Technologists’ Wellness meeting showed that eating a low-glycemic breakfast could prevent blood sugar spikes and crashes. It might even help you put the brakes on your late-morning Krispy Kreme detour. One study that researchers presented here looked at how low-glycemic almonds for breakfast steadied blood sugar and [...]

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Low Carb Beats Low Fat for Fat Loss & More

A study that Johns Hopkins researchers presented at a recent American Heart Association meeting showed the more belly fat you lose, the better your arteries can expand, which allows more blood to flow to your heart, brain, and other areas. The six-month study divided 60 men and women into two groups that combined either a [...]

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Build Muscle and Burn Fat? Choose Protein!

A recent study in the Journal of the American Medical Association found eating a low-protein diet makes your body more likely to store fat around your liver, kidneys, and other organs. You might not think any type of body fat could be good, but trust me: fat hanging around these organs is especially bad. On [...]

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Processed Meat Linked to Diabetes (Maybe Not)

A new study in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition found that processed canned meat – more affectionately known as spam – could double your risk for diabetes. The study involved 2,000 Native Americans, a high-risk demographic for type 2 diabetes. Statistics show, in fact, that almost one in two Native Americans will have diabetes [...]

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Supplements Lousy for Fat Loss

Newsflash: there’s no magic bullet for fat loss. (But you already knew that.) That’s what Melinda Manore concluded after examining America’s $2.4 billion weight-loss supplement industry. Her results appear in the International Journal of Sport Nutrition and Exercise Metabolism. Manore, a professor of nutrition and exercise sciences at Oregon State University, began this study by [...]

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5 Simple Rules for Eating at Restaurants

A recent study in the Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior concludes you can eat out and still burn fat. In this study, 35 healthy middle-aged women participated in a six-week program called Mindful Restaurant Eating, which teaches people how to eat out healthfully. Now, keep in mind the goal of Mindful Restaurant Eating was [...]

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Take a Vacation From Your Low-Carb Diet

Can you take a five-day “vacation” from your low-carb diet every week and still burn fat? A new study suggests that possibility. Researchers here found women who cut carbs for just two days each week lost more weight than women who stuck with a permanent calorie-restricted diet. In other words, for five days every week, [...]

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Fructose Vindicated for Obesity Epidemic?

Are we unfairly blaming fructose for the obesity epidemic? That’s what researchers from St. Michael’s Hospital suggested in the Annals of Internal Medicine when they reviewed over 40 published fructose studies. In 31 of these studies, people ate the same number of calories as either pure fructose or non-fructose sugar. The fructose group did not [...]

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