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MSG : Why It’s Bad

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Monosodium glutamate, more commonly known as MSG, is a common food additive that is presentlly in many of our [...]

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Controversial Foster Care for Obese Kids Idea

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The doctor who came out and publicly said (and was very brave for doing so, even I knew he was going to face a ton of backlash) that obese children should be put in to foster care until the problem is resolved, is facing quite a bit of outcry right now.

And who [...]

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What is Orthorexia? Is It Like Anorexia?

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Eating a healthy diet is so important and so many articles have been written to remind us of that fact.  While eating a healthier diet is vital, it seems that some individuals have taken that idea to such excess that it becomes an obsession and then it becomes unhealthy.

The term, orhtorexia, refers [...]

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Yo Yo Dieting Not as Bad as We Once Thought…..

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Yo yo dieting used to be akin to eating badly all the time, at least in the way that we humans perceived it’s drawbacks.  But now, new research has come out that shows that yo yo dieting is actually better than never dieting at all, and that yo yo dieters (at least in [...]

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Why Drinking Water is Important to Weight Loss

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I used to wonder why so many health gurus and fitness experts who preached drinking plenty of water every day said what they did about the importance of drinking water for weight loss. I mean, other than maybe making you feel a little fuller when you drink it with foods, why would water [...]

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MSG Linked to Weight Gain?

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MSG is one of those big, bad additives that you just can’t seem to get away from in the American diet. It has been linked to allergies and other health issues, and yet it still is a mainstay additive and preservative, as well as flavor enhancer, in many of the processed foods that [...]

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Do Your Hips Get Wider With Age No Matter What?

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I have noticed that through the years, my body’s shape has changed. I’m not just talking about weight gain and weight loss. I’m talking about the basic shape, curvature, and proportions of my body. For example, I used to have more narrow hips, now they are a bit wider, no matter what I [...]

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Low Fat Dairy and Weight Loss a Myth?

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There’s been a lot of buzz around the assumption or correlation that consuming low fat dairy products helps people to lose weight.  A lot of people will put their low fat dairy consumption into overdrive when they are trying to drop weight because it is a common belief, just in the past five [...]

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The College and Weight Loss Correlation

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There are certain times and situations in life when people will be more prone to weight gain.  For females, this often occurs at puberty when her body begins to shift and change and female curves start to occur and later in life, after childbirth, it may be difficult to shed the extra weight [...]

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Tangerines and Obesity

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We heard about grapefruit a number of years ago with the grapefruit diets.  The idea was that grapefruit effected your metabolism when eaten before meals because certain bioactive compounds that were contained within the fruit and juice of the fruit. 

Now, new research from the University of Western Ontario has shown that a [...]

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