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Healthy Weight Loss for Women
We all know that it is important to maintain a healthy lifestyle. This includes healthy eating, staying fit, getting enough rest and keeping stress to a minimum.
Fad diets are not the answer to long lasting weight loss. Rather, eat a well balanced, healthy diet full of fresh fruits and veggies, low in fat and high in fiber. There are a lot of nutrition lifestyles out there, just find the one that works best for you! From low carb to weight watchers, all ways of eating should be a lifestlye and not a temp fix.
Weight Loss Articles
Weekends Tough on the Diet (HealthDay)HealthDay - FRIDAY, July 25 (HealthDay News) -- Anyone who has avoided Monday
morning weigh-ins knows this unalterable truth: Weekends are not a
dieter's friend.
Health Tip: Evaluate Your Diet (HealthDay)HealthDay - (HealthDay News) -- If you don't carefully monitor your diet,
here are a few warning signs that you should, courtesy of the American
Academy of Family Physicians:
If your doctor has warned you about health problems or risk factors
that can be controlled or improved with a better diet. These conditions
include high blood pressure or high cholesterol.
If you have a family history of heart disease, osteoporosis, diabetes
or cancer.
If you are overweight or obese.
If you have unanswered questions about the foods you eat, and whether
you should take vitamins or other supplements.
A 540-calorie Big Mac? NY chains post calorie info (AP)AP - Customers at big fast-food chains in New York City are finally facing the facts about their meal choices. And for some, the truth may be hard to swallow — like 1,130 calories for a Big Mac, medium fries and a medium soda.
Low-Fat Milk OK for Some Toddlers (HealthDay)HealthDay - THURSDAY, July 17 (HealthDay News) -- For babies ready to
graduate from breast milk or formula to cow's milk, the longstanding
recommendation has been that they receive whole milk, instead of
reduced-fat or fat-free milk.
Dietary Fiber Cuts Risk of Pregnancy Complication (HealthDay)HealthDay - THURSDAY, July 17 (HealthDay News) -- Eating more fiber during
the first trimester of pregnancy seems to reduce the risk of developing
preeclampsia, a potentially fatal condition characterized by elevated
blood pressure.
Study: Low-carb diet best for weight, cholesterol (AP)AP - The Atkins diet may have proved itself after all: A low-carb diet and a Mediterranean-style regimen helped people lose more weight than a traditional low-fat diet in one of the longest and largest studies to compare the dueling weight-loss techniques.
Diet Plans Produce Similar Results (HealthDay)HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, July 16 (HealthDay News) -- New research shows that
Mediterranean and low-carb diets are just as good and just as safe as the
low-fat diet often prescribed by doctors, a revelation that should give
people more choices in eating well.
Similar weight loss on 3 different, popular diets (Reuters)Reuters - A long-term study of three very
different diets has concluded that all produce similar amounts
of modest weight loss, although the health benefits of the
three may vary.
Men may need to work harder to cut diabetes risk (Reuters)Reuters - Losing weight through diet and
exercise lowers diabetes risk in men and women, but men may
have to work harder for the same benefit, new research
suggests.
Parenting style reflected in how children are fed (Reuters)Reuters - Parents' general approach to
raising their children is often apparent in how they manage
their kids' diets -- suggesting that efforts to control
childhood obesity need to consider family dynamics, according
to researchers.
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