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I wrote an article not long ago that talked about the foods that can help keep you full.
If you missed it, you can still read it here: 7 Healthy Foods That Will Fill You Up and Prevent Overeating
The first comment on that article I wrote really worried me because I don’t want people to avoid eating almonds or nuts for that matter because they think they are fattening. Good fats are your friends while bad fats are you foes.
If you want to remain at a healthy weight you have to make smart food choices and that means that eating foods that fill you up will help prevent you from running for those empty calorie foods.
It’s obvious that if you are allergic to nuts or if you have a condition that prevents you from eating nuts, you should ignore this article, but if nuts don’t pose any healthy issues, I’d surely follow Dr. Mehmet Oz’s advice and have a handful of almonds with you at all time because they are great at suppressing hunger and they are good for you.
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Simple tips for losing weight and keeping it off
Have you ever wondered why you are not losing any weight even though you’re putting in all this effort?
Whenever I need to lose weight because I have been a little bit more indulgent in my diet and not gone to the gym as often as I should, I always follow the same technique:
* I do a cleanse either with detox pill supplements, or, if my short-term lifestyle can handle it, a juice cleanse for about 10 days.
* I cut back on some of the cheat foods I’ve been over-indulging in.
* I take assessment of my portions.
* I make sure I’m at the gym four times per week (when I gain weight, it’s usually because I’m eating more than I should and have reduced my fitness activities to twice per week).
* I also make a point of walking as much as I can instead of taking public transportation.
My formula for trimming down is pretty simple and it’s worked for me for years now. I never take any drastic measures and I never, ever follow questionable quick weight-loss techniques that only result in you gaining more weight and getting caught in a never-ending cycle of weight-gain-weight-loss-weight-gain.
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Do you know where to buy wild fish?
I noticed not long ago that my main grocery store had changed the way it labelled fish at the fish counter.
Instead of the regular label that would tell you what type of fish you were buying and the price, the new labels were far more explicit.
When I realized there was this switch in consciousness on the part of my local grocery store, I could not help by think of the Food, Inc. documentary because this is exactly what they mean when they say that as consumers we have a voice. Obviously, my grocer either listened to consumers who wanted to be in the know or they tried something new to see how consumers would react.
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Why are Americans so FAT?
***Click on the links below to see with your own two eyes what America is eating!***
Last month I had a feature that exposed the difference between the American diet and the European diet. It caused a bit of controversy, but I expected as much because the photo is quite revealing. If you missed it, you can still catch here:
American diets versus European diets
I don’t want my American readers to think that I’m attacking their way of life, because the purpose of this site is to educate and help all my readers make better food choices, but the reality is that Americans are getting fatter and fatter and they are also getting sicker and sicker and it’s all related to the poor quality of their diet.
There are so many additives added to the average American diet that your body will never metabolize this “stuff” that is not natural to its proper functioning and will simply sit and get trapped as fat.
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If you eat more … you’ll lose more weight!??!
Don’t head to Kentucky Fried Chicken or Dairy Queen just yet. You might want to read the rest of this post before finishing off that bag of Doritos chips.
The idea of eating more and losing weight relates to the quality of the foods you eat.
There are simple substitutes you can make in order to achieve this goal and it can be simply be cutting down the carbs and the size of your portion of meat and bumping up the quality of vegetables you eat with each meal.
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6 simple everyday tips to controlling your weight
The previous post was getting long so I decided to cut this in two parts. I know that there is soooooooooooooooooo much information out there on weight loss and STILL so many people are losing the battle when it comes to weight loss.
I could go into more complicated methods, but frankly simplicity trumps when it comes to losing weight, making better food decision, keeping the weight off for years to come and aging well.
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7 reasons why you cannot lose weight
Web MD recently published a piece with the eye-catching title “Why You Can’t Lose Weight”.
I won’t shock you when I say that a LOT of reasons that were listed in the Web MD article are as obvious as an elephant, but for some reason so many people are still not able to understand them and integrate them in their lives.
There really isn’t much mystery anymore when it comes to losing weight. It’s been so incredibly well documented, you’d think that everyone living in Western world would be thin and healthy, but as you know obesity is one of the most serious health issues facing many wealthy countries and the problem seems to be getting worst each year.
I’ve extracted the six reasons reported by Web MD preventing millions of men and women from losing weight and keeping it off:
1) Being a woman puts you as risk for weight gain: Because women have less muscle then men, you burn less calories. Weight training for women is so important because you burn calories in your muscle cells, not in your fat cells.
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Can Omega 3 help control obesity?
I first started taking Omega 3 supplements because Dr. John Berardi suggested that it would help convert extra body fat into lean muscle as you train. Since I’ve been a long time fitness buff, this new piece of information was enough to get me to change my ways.
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