613 articles on "weight"

Relax Your Way To Weight Loss and Good Health

I want to talk about the effect that stress and sleep deprivation may have on your weight. I spent the last six years of my life in Los Angeles partaking in the “Rat Race”. Two things I discovered: only rats win the rat race and stress can play h...

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Why Many Fat Free Diets Do Not Work

Why Many Fat Free Diets Do Not Work by: Protica Nutritional Research Most people understand that it is wise to limit the amount of fat grams in their daily diet. The dietary reference intake amount for an adult ranges from 20% to 35%[i] of daily...

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Unrealistic expectations can cause failure

Weight gain is an evolutionary process. Some people call it creeping weight. The scale turtles inexorably upward – a tight skirt, a belt notch, a can’t-zip-up-my-pants inch at a time. Yet you expect the scale to go down as rapidly as a high-spee...

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Monitoring Your Weight Loss Progress Progress Don't Guess- Measure!

Any weight loss or fitness program is incomplete without the timely measurements to monitor Your Progress. The only way to know if your health and fitness program is successful is by monitoring your measurements, weight and body fat levels on a consi...

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Tips on successful weight loss

Throughout my childhood and teenage years I watched as my mother tried every fad diet under the sun. I recall one time she ate boiled cabbage and nothing else for a whole week. I felt my mothers’ frustration and misery, however I could not understa...

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Understand the Science of Obesity And You're On Your Way To Conquer It

Understand the Science of Obesity And You're On Your Way To Conquer It by: Wan Ibrahim Yusoff Many people think obesity means that a person is overweight, but that's not exactly true. An overweight person has a surplus amount of weight...

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What Exactly Is A Gastric Bypass

A gastric bypass means that you cut the stomach high up so that you separate the stomach in two parts - a small upper part and a large lower part. The upper part is then connected to the small bowel a bit downstream on the small bowel. The larger low...

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Why Do You Say You Want To Lose Weight

Why Do You Say You Want To Lose Weight?How many of your New Year's resolution start out with "I want to lose x amount of pounds"as if just saying it were some kind of magic mantra. As if the weight would just fall off, in response to the spoken ...

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Too Much Water Can Kill

Long distance runners and other endurance athletes have long been educated to believe that drinking lots of fluids during a long distance or endurance event was critical. And if you didn't drink enough water, you ran the risk of dehydration.Rese...

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Diet Programs And Meals - The Portfolio Diet

The Portfolio Diet was created by Amanda Ursell, a British nutritionist. The major goal of this diet is lowering the level of bad cholesterol, while increasing the level of good cholesterol. This diet may be life long. Here are some of the diet princ...

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