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The Weight of the Nation is Crushing America

The HBO documentary, “The Weight of the Nation” is a clarion call for changing our eating habits and the government’s food and farm policies and subsidies. If not, we will all soon have a problem, not just the 2/3rds of us that are overweight or obese, as well as 1/3 of children.

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Sunday Summary: Weight Loss Truths, Weight Loss Steps and A Guide to Healthy Shopping

This Sunday’s topics are: Weight Loss Truths, Weight Loss Steps and A Guide to Healthy Shopping. Plan healthy treats; get enough lean protein; chose the right fats; water, not soda; fiber; 2,000 steps; know how to read food labels.

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1 Soda, 60 Minutes of Harm

Drink one soda and within 60 minutes you can look forward to sugar spikes, insulin bursts, rising blood pressure and calcium excretion, among other unsavory things.
Have soda the habit? Do some substituting with cold or hot green tea!

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Sugar Lover? Which Type Are You?

Doctors Hyman and Teitelbaum have extensively written of the dangers of artificial sweeteners. Teitelbaum has characterized four types of “sugar addicts” based on behavior and makes recommendations about how to get well.

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5 Healthy Eating Nutrition Tips — Watch Video

In this video, Annick Robinson demonstrates 5 tips for healthy eating, which involve frequent eating of small portions, lean protein selection, low gylcemic carbs and healthy fats.

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Drink Your Way to Health and Weight Loss

Substituting coffee, soda, and snacks with green tea, pure water and nutritious smoothies will result in more energy and weight loss. By doing this you can lose over 20 pounds in one year without doing anything else.

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25 Diet-busting Foods Never to Eat

Among the many more, here are Health.com’s 25 Diet-Busting Foods You Should Never Eat article I just perused. The “foods” (I use that word liberally) that are cited have some common characteristics, such as salt, sugar, fat and high processing.

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Are You Getting Fat and Sick from Sugar?

Sugar can kill, especially if it’s high-fructose corn syrup. It’s in everything that comes in a can, bottle or box, and it will make you fat and unhealthy. One problem with it is that all of it has to be metabolized by the liver, so it can fatten the liver and lead to disease.

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Dr. Oz’s New Year’s Prescription: 3 “Revolution Resolutions”

Dr. Oz’s prescription for New Year’s resolutions: More sleep, don’t go hungry, and have more sex. Sleep reduces stress. Healthy snacks prevents over eating. Sex is…

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Some Help for Weight Management

Supplement For An Extra Nudge THERE WAS a time when a certain amount of corpulence was favored by society.  If you were fat it meant that you had enough wealth to eat whilst the peasants were near starving, and accordingly, quite skinny. Oh, if only such antediluvian norms could return.  Just think of how many [...]

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