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Low-fat diet study
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| According to conventional wisdom, the key to weight loss is reducing the amount of fat calories in your diet. Standard diet programs advocate 30 percent of calories from fat, but stringent weight-loss programs may restrict people to as little as 20 percent....Read Full |
Dieting on a Budget
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| Do you find yourself spending a ton of money in diet food? Up and down the aisles of the grocery store on the search for the right products to incorporate into your diet. Buy it, try it, and discover you don't like it. You are stuck with a box of the next greatest diet bars on the market. You force yourself to eat them because you paid good money for them. Why do we do this to ourselves?...Read Full |
So You Think You Have 'Fat Genes'
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New York City - "Battle Your Biology? Fat Chance," proclaims a headline in the health section of the "July 11th New York Post. Quoting new research and citing psychologists, dietitians and physicians, the article says that more and more evidence proves that your weight is genetically determined, and if you're fat, "it's not your fault." "We've known for a while that genes - more than environment and behavior - explain obesity" argues Dr. James Rosen, an eating disorder specialist and professor at the University of Vermont. While genetics are definitely a factor, believing you are destined to be overweight for life because you've inherited "fat genes" is the most disempowering and self-defeating attitude you could ever adopt. The only way you'll lose weight permanently is to accept total responsibility for yourself and acknowledge the fact that you have the power to change, regardless what mother nature has given you to work with. There's no denying that heredity plays a major role in how difficult it will be for you to lose fat. You inherited a body type, a predetermined number of fat cells, a metabolic rate and body chemistry just as you inherited your eye color and hair color. In the 1930's, Harvard psychologist Dr. William H. Sheldon developed a classification system for these different body types called "somatotyping." While there are no absolutes, Sheldon identified three basic somatotypes: ectomorphs, mesomorphs and endomorphs. Ectomorphs are the lean, lanky types. They are usually very thin and bony, with fast metabolisms and extremely low body fat. An ectomorph can eat like a horse without gaining an ounce. Mesomorphs are the "genetically gifted." They are lean, muscular and naturally athletic. Mesomorphs lose fat and gain muscle with ease. Endomorphs are the "fat retainers." Characterized by round features, excess body fat and large joints ("big bones"), endomorphs usually have great difficulty in losing body fat. They have slow metabolisms, they are often carbohydrate sensitive, they gain fat quickly if they eat poorly or don't exercise, and they lose fat slowly - even on a healthy diet....Read Full |
An Overview about the Zone Diet
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| The key factor in Zone Diet is the hormonal balance you achieve while eating each skillfully prepared meal. With a food plan comprising an accurate balanced ratio of carbohydrates (40%), fat (30%) and proteins (30%); you actually get to eat foods, which control your bodys insulin production. This means that no meal or snack is forbidden in the Zone Diet and yet you can lose weight or fat while Zone dieting....Read Full |
What to Drink on the Zone Diet?
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| The Zone Diet is a popular diet program based on eating the right balance of carbohydrate, fat and protein calories. It's important to know that calories can come from drinks as well. Although water is the recommended drink, other beverages are allowed too....Read Full |
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Weight Loss and Diet Pills - Phentermine
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| Diet pills have been getting their fair share of publicity these days,
though one is often kept wondering at the facts, fictions ands myths behind every
press note released by the pharmaceutical companies promoting the drugs, and the
critical stand taken by other medical scientists after their own clinical study
of the drugs. Sadly for them, the war of words over the safe use of weight loss
pills has confused and baffled the obese to no ends. A layman, who is genuinely
overweight and obese, is in a dilemma over the choice. She doesn't know
whom to listen to, the drug makers or the safety brigade; helpless, she ends up
being obese. Generally, even a layman won't need an educated guess to read
between the lines of the warnings and safety measures given on the labels of the
drugs. But what remains hidden behind the standard warnings is a mystery, unless
they are brought into notice by the staunch supporters of a rival drug company.
There is only a "smoking is injurious to health" tag on a cigarette
packet; cigarette companies don't display the various harms of nicotine
on the packet. But society is not bereft of individuals and organizations that
expose the harms drugs can do to society. ...Read Full |
6 Steps To Avoid Getting Fat Again After You Lose
Bobby | by |
| Many of todays magazines and web sites throw out negative weight loss statistics, such as "95% of people who lose weight gain it back." But scientific studies about why people regain weight are contradictory. Some blame genetics, but research shows that heredity is only one small factor in weight gain or loss. To answer your question, we turned it around and searched the Web for information on people who had lost weight and kept it off. By looking at these successes, we hoped to learn why others have failed....Read Full |
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