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3 Dieting Pitfalls and How to Avoid Them
- As a nutritionist who was once fat, I have examined the weight issue from every angle. I have worked with thousands of clients in successfully fighting fat and I am now, myself, tiny and fit, a mere fraction of my once fat self. A big part of the problem is that dieters do nothing to change their mental state. Your...
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The One True Secret of Weight-Loss Success
- Some unsuccessful dieters spend years - and hundreds of pounds - seeking the secret of weight-loss success. Surely this pill (with so many glowing testimonies) must work? And even though the last diet plan was impossible to stick to for more than two days, this celebrity-endorsed regime has got to be worth a try. Then there's that list of...
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Mobility Scooter for Kids
- It's not really a mobility scooter: it's the Ringbo Riding Robot. Demonstrated at the Koreannovation show in New York last week. The riding robot is aimed it 2-3 year olds. It takes 6-8 hours to charge and then runs for 1 hour. Just what our kids need to avoid that terribly old-fashioned practice of walking. ...
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New Superfood: Chia Seeds?
- Chia seeds--yep, the same ones that will eventually grow into one of those goofy chia pets if you encourage them--are being called the newest Superfood. Are they any good for you? And what the heck do you do with them? ...
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Kids Cereal: Popular = Unhealthy
- Okay, so we probably didn't need a study to prove this one, but nonetheless a recent analysis of 161 brands of cereals came to 2 unsurprising conclusions: Breakfast cereals meant for children are of poorer nutritional quality than those marketed towards adults Cereals marketed the most heavily had the poorest nutritional quality Dr. Marlene Schwartz of Yale University - lead...
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Finding the Healthiest Chocolate
- Researchers at the University of East Anglia (Norwich, UK) are starting a project to look into one of many dieters' favorite "facts" - that chocolate is good for you....
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Milk: Is it Healthy or Not?
- I would be hard-pressed to find a food substance that attracts as much controversy as milk. Whether or not it is beneficial to overall health, whether or not it helps weight loss, whether we should buy raw or pasteurized, low fat vs. full fat - the list goes on and on. Hence, I hope to make an attempt to navigate...
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Activate Drinks: The Only Way to Drink Your Vitamins?
- Functional beverages are this year's buzz product. Almost every week a new kind of enhanced water or drink is hitting the shelves. One of these drinks is Activate - which, despite looking like any other flashy new drink - has a completely different mechanism for combining vitamins with liquid. ...
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Top 8 Most Ridiculous Weight Loss Techniques
- Obesity researcher Betty Kovacs and Self Magazine editor Erin Hobday collaborated on a NY Daily News piece that outlines the 8 most outrageous weight loss ideas. How they managed to whittle the list down to just 8 is an impressive feat! So here's the crazy 8: ...
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The Embargo Diet
- When a country experiences an economic crisis, it is hard to find a silver lining. In Cuba, however, citizens have seen a remarkable change in their nation's health since a major economic fallout between 1990-1993. A double whammy of the US embargo combined with the collapse of the Soviet Union had left the citizens of Cuba unable to afford much...
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