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Don’t Get Hung Up on Induction
Many words have more than one meaning. You lean down to pick up a child, but you may or may not be lean. You may prefer to ride in the bow of a boat, you used to tie a bow in your daughter’s hair and you’re quite accurate with a bow and arrow. Words with
Read MoreWhy Do Men Get a Break, Weight-Wise?
Have you ever decided to lose weight with your mate? Sometimes that approach can be a wonderful, mutually supportive experience. But it doesn’t always work that way. All too often, the guy loses faster while eating more than the woman. That’s not a problem if both understand that different bodies respond to diet and exercise
Read MoreGoodbye To Guilt
Wouldn’t it be wonderful if your fairy godmother could wave a magic wand and absolve you of the guilt you’re carrying around with you? You know what I’m talking about—the feeling that somehow you’re to blame for being overweight or at least heavier than you’d like to be? That if you just had more will
Read MoreGood Nutrition: It’s Not That Complicated
A recent telephone survey of 1,234 adults about their eating habits conducted by the Consumer Reports National Resource Center showed a mismatch between people’s thoughts and their actions. For example, 90 percent of respondents claimed that their diet was “somewhat,” “very,” or “extremely” healthy. But their responses to questions about what they actually ate were
Read MoreIt’s That Time of Year Again
OK, you’ve survived Thanksgiving, the holiday that celebrates overeating as much as it honors the spirit of cooperation between the Pilgrims and Native Americans. Now the next challenge awaits you as we head into a whole season devoted to parties and food, food, food. How can you avoid being labeled a party-pooper while staying true
Read MoreThis Holiday Season, Make a Plan to Keep Pace with Your Exercise Goals
Watch out for this common trap: You persuade yourself that because you’re following a low-carb eating plan, Thanksgiving will be easy as pie. Heck, you tell yourself, it’s all about the turkey, right? Wrong! There’s the stuffing… and the cranberry sauce… and the ooey-gooey marshmallows on the candied sweet potatoes… and before you know it,
Read MoreThe Role of Insulin in Difficulty Losing Weight
The usual ways of eating that should lead to weight loss simply do not work for certain people who have extreme difficulty losing weight. Are you one of those tortured souls who has been told that the only reason you are overweight is because you eat too much? It is a well-documented fact that people
Read MoreThe Path to Diabetes
This insidious disease usually takes a fairly predictable journey. Here is a road map to help you take a detour before you get too far along the route to diabetes. The modern American diet is grossly tipped toward refined carbohydrates such as sugar and white flour, both of which rank high on the glycemic index.
Read MoreHow You Can Lose Weight While Building Muscle Through Exercise and Atkins?
We interviewed Jeff Volek, PhD, RD, exercise and nutrition researcher, fitness expert, and one of the authors of the New Atkins for a New You. We talked about the idea of trading your fat for muscle; of actually shifting the tissues around. To achieve this, two core tenets are employed; low carbohydrate eating to stimulate
Read MoreNew Research, New Directions: Further Indications that Low-Carb Is Good for Your Health and Your Waistline
Research on nutrition and health is like gathering intelligence: never perfect, rarely linear, but always useful and always suggestive. As with any carefully gathered and well-researched data, the more we have the better we can fill in the blanks and connect the dots. And the more certain we can feel about the picture that emerges,
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