tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19538355826564734082011-11-27T15:51:48.658-08:00Diet - Nutrition - Weight Loss - HealthBoneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13948509648951742293noreply@blogger.comBlogger231100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1953835582656473408.post-1230937883132633082010-08-29T07:36:00.000-07:002010-08-29T07:36:33.104-07:00

It is possible. Fat has twice the calories as protein. Water doesn't have any calories. Finding things you enjoy eating that fill you up without piling on the calories is an important dieter's tool. Everybody knows you can drink diet soda rather than the sugar filled kind. Switching to a diet brand or plan water is a good thing. Sugary drinks have around 10 teaspoons of sugar in each can!

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A recent article in the business pages discussed how various diet companies were lowering prices. That is good news for those of us who buy Nutrisystem foods or join Weight Watchers or their competitors. Even with a discount buying packaged foods, like Nutrisystem, is very expensive. It works if you eat the suggested meals because you limit the calories you consume. That is half the battle!

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Research at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden suggests middle aged men who take around 2 grams of calcium daily as part of their diet had significantly lower chances of dying than men who consumed the least calcium. This research was well done. It followed 23,000 men over a 10 year period. In general studies that involve large numbers of people over long time frames provide the most definitive

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Have you watched the "Biggest Loser"? We find it interesting that people will put themselves though what appears to be torture. Naturally they do it under doctor's supervision. How about that Jillian? Wikipedia says she was an overweight teen. Her mom put her in a martial arts class which taught her to take care of her body. Boy she seems like a tough trainer. Now she is really commercializing

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The European Heart Journal recently published results of a 10 year study on almost 20,000 people done by German researchers. The good news? Chocolate reduces the chance of heart attack and stroke by a significant percentage. The bad news? Sugar and saturated fat, which is found in large quantities in chocolate, are still bad for you. Interestingly the useful amount of chocolate is small at 1/4

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With a historic health care bill being debated today (3/21/2010) as I write this I wanted to mention a few things about where the United States stands in terms of health care. Facts in this article are mostly from: http://www.americashealthrankings.org/. The US currently spends more per person than any other country. Yet we rank about 30th among other countries in the world when measured on

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The best way to get nutrition is from eating balanced and varied meals. One can't always eat perfectly though, especially if dramatically reducing food input which happens with some diets. Some vitamins are not readily available in foods. A multi-vitamin pill seems a cheap insurance policy. Mega doses of vitamins can be harmful and if not harmful are wasted money. So we recommend a basic

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We recently spent some time with some Vegans. They were morally opposed to eating animal products of any sort. It is Lent which is a time when Catholics don't eat meat on Fridays and perhaps other days. Another fellow who is extremely concerned about the environment claims eating less beef will save the Earth's ecosystem. A financial adviser says eating less meat will save us money. From our

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We looked into Fat Loss 4 Idiots (FL4I) at the request of a Diet Inn member. Summary: Give FL4I money. Follow the FL4I rules, most of which are simple common sense. Follow the FL4I online meal planner. Supposedly lose almost a pound a day. Pros: Paying attention to your diet and trying any change may make you more aware of what you eat. Some of the FL4I rules such as drink more water and eat

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Enjoy life, but don't eat too much chocolate. It's most fun if you can find somebody to share your chocolate with. :) bon appetit! ----- Read the full article and lose weight with us at: Diet Inn

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Honestly, what are you willing to change to lose weight? To lose weight you must take in fewer calories than you use. You can increase your activity to use more calories than before. You can eat fewer calories. Or you can do both. To keep the weight off the changes you make must be permanent. Fasting won't cut it. Eating just one thing won't work. Those are not sustainable changes. Some

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Do you read labels on the food you buy? You should, there is a lot of information there. As an example let's compare two snack cracker labels: Big Cheez-It and Triscuit Rosemary & Olive Oil. In what follows I will always list the Cheez-It number first followed by the Triscuit number. First the serving size is 30 grams vs. 28g. About the same. Since Cheez-Its are smaller we are comparing 13 of

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Summary: Make small improvements to your diet and exercise routine, publicize your commitment, implement and repeat. Pros: It really helps some people permanently lose weight. Cons: The Diet Inn diet seems vague to some and too slow to others. Small changes are doable. Making one change at a time is not daunting or drastic. If you are unable to make one change you can try others and will find

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Every day we see headlines that promise miracles if we eat a particular food. In the last week we read articles on WebMD that suggest "Blueberry juice may boost memory" and that "Green tea extract may treat uterine fibroids." Sometimes they claim to melt away the fat or otherwise help us lose weight effortlessly. Are these foods miracles? No. The headlines usually cover themselves by using

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The Diet Inn admin added a polling feature for me (thanks admin!) I want to learn more about our audience as we gain readers. Anyone, even anonymous web surfers, can respond to the polls. Please visit Diet Inn and let me know if you want to lose weight. I'm trying to break the ice with an easy question. :) The poll is at the left side of the page. Please comment here (or register, log in and

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Summary: Eat less fat. Exercise more. Since you already have more than enough fat eating less will help right? Pros: Reducing the amount of harmful fat in your diet will improve your heart health. Cons: Inadvertently reducing good fat can harm your heart health. Substituting refined carbohydrates for good fat can backfire and cause you to gain weight. Saturated fats are strongly linked to

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Recently several people we met have tried a miracle diet. This involves getting daily injections of a hormone and going on a starvation diet of 500 calories daily. Supposedly the hormone relieves hunger pangs and causes the body to metabolize its fat rather than muscle. Some of these "miracle diets" use HCG which is a hormone produced during pregnancy. Others use HGH, human growth hormone.

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We are asked if we support the Slow Food Movement. To answer that question we need to know what the Slow Food Movement is. We heard that Alice Waters, founder of one of the finest restaurants in the world Chez Panisse, supports the SFM (Slow Food Movement.)On reading the introduction to her The Art of Simple Food: Notes, Lessons, and Recipes from a Delicious Revolution, a great cookbook for

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Summary: Calculate your BMR. Add up the calories in all the food you eat. Make sure you eat fewer calories than your BMR.Pros: Eat fewer calories than your BMR and you WILL lose weight. You become aware of which foods have the most calories and what exactly is a reasonable portion.Cons: Counting can be tedious for some people. Calories are calories, counting doesn't distinguish between healthy

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We read an article ("In Recession, Americans Doing More, Buying Less" by Damien Cave) in today's (1/3/2010) New York Times. They quote several polls and produce other evidence to support their headline. This is great news! Whether to pay off debt, rebuild savings or to cope with reduced income Americans are buying fewer material things. The silver lining is they continue to pursue experiences

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Happy New Year! May the new year be a healthy one for you, your family and your friends. Many people, myself included, tend to eat too much over the holidays. We attend more parties, have more visitors and the weather may keep us indoors more than other times of the year. To lose weight we need to exercise more and eat less. We need to burn more calories than we consume. To learn how many

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Elevenses Many people are in the habit of eating something mid-morning. Some even snack all day long. If you miss breakfast you often need a snack well before lunch. Even with a substantial breakfast people can feel the need for a snack. In times past, when most work was very physical, people had regular second breakfast or elevenses. With discipline, maybe with the help of a cup of coffee or

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A good breakfast is an important start to the day. Don't skip it! Skipping breakfast is counterproductive. Your body needs sustenance after the long break since the previous day's dinner. You didn't eat any midnight snacks did you? Many people we have worked with start out with very little fiber in their diet. Fiber only comes from plants. Whole grains are an excellent source of fiber. Fiber is

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