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Are Your Snacks The Equivalent Of Another Meal?

By on May 17, 2013 in Calorie Tips, Healthy Eating, Food Facts, Eating on the Job, Food for Fun and Thought, Lose 5 Pounds in 5 Weeks, Manage Your Weight, Snacking, Noshing, Tasting

We chow down on a lot of snack food — a quarter of our calories come from them! Snacks account for more than 25% of Americans’ daily calorie intake; since the 1970s, snacks have accounted for around 580 calories a day — which basically turns them into “a full eating event,” or a fourth meal. [...]

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Does Impulsive Mean Overweight And Neurotic Mean Yo-Yo?

By on August 4, 2011 in Food for Fun and Thought, Manage Your Weight

Are You Impulsive — Or Neurotic? If you’re impulsive it seems that you are more likely to be overweight. If you’re highly neurotic and less conscientious, it’s more likely that you’ll see your weight go up and down. At least that’s what was found in a study published in the Journal of Personality and Social [...]

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How Obesity Threatens Our Future

By on July 14, 2011 in Calorie Tips, Healthy Eating, Food Facts, Food for Fun and Thought

Since 2006, Trust for America’s Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation have released an annual report on obesity.  This year’s report, F as in Fat: How Obesity Threatens America’s Future 2011 (available as a PDF download), unveils some downright alarming statistics. Some Major Findings: Adult Obesity Rates and Trends (2008-2010)  Adult obesity rates rose [...]

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Why Are Americans Getting Fat???

By on June 10, 2011 in Food for Fun and Thought, Manage Your Weight

The reasons why Americans are getting fat at an alarming rate might surprise you… An infographic courtesy of Healthy Meal Experts.   Learn more about Healthy Meals Send to Kindle

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Can You Train And Tame Your Hunger?

By on May 3, 2011 in Eating on the Job, Eating with Family and Friends, Entertaining, Buffets, Parties, Events, Food for Fun and Thought, Snacking, Noshing, Tasting

Physical – or real – hunger, the kind you feel when your stomach is growling, you’re irritable as all get-out, you’ve got zilch energy, and probably a throbbing headache, means you body needs food for fuel. Info You Can Use About Hunger Hunger is somewhat unpredictable.  Your actual hunger levels are not the same every [...]

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Have You Noticed That Some Well-Known Chefs Are Shrinking?

By on March 18, 2011 in Food for Fun and Thought, Manage Your Weight, Restaurants, Diners, Fast Food

In girth that is.  The chef’s weight loss is frequently motivated by a health scare – although sometimes just by vanity or wanting to be more mobile and agile in the kitchen — many star chefs have devised their own plans for losing weight. Fortunately, for them, they have knowledge and their skill in the [...]

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A Healthy Eating Lesson On The Subway

By on March 15, 2011 in Calorie Tips, Healthy Eating, Food Facts, Manage Your Weight, Shopping, Cooking, Baking, Snacking, Noshing, Tasting, Takeout, Prepared Food, Junk Food, Travel, On Vacation, In the Car

New York city, uptown #2 train, Saturday night.  Not too crowded, most people are wearing their subway stares – avoiding eye contact, eyes glazed over, ipod earbuds in place, bodies rocking with the motion of the train.  My trip isn’t long enough to pull out something to read, so I start to scan the ads [...]

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Are You Waiting For The Perfect Time To Start Your Diet?

By on March 8, 2011 in Calorie Tips, Healthy Eating, Food Facts, Manage Your Weight

Do the stars, moon, sun, and all the planets need to be in alignment for you to start your diet? Diet, not a word I usually use, implies deprivation and a way of life that is not easy, comforting, and fun.  So no wonder there are tons of excuses and reasons not to start.   [...]

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What Not to Ask: How Much Weight Have You Lost?

By on February 25, 2011 in Manage Your Weight

In the past few weeks I have heard two well-respected interviewers ask some well-known people questions like “How much weight have you lost?” or, “What do you weigh?” The interviewers, Barbara Walters and Ann Curry, are excellent at their craft; highly intelligent; two people I admire; and thin, thin, thin. Neither of them looks like [...]

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Obesity Spreads Through Social Ties

By on February 15, 2011 in Eating with Family and Friends, Manage Your Weight

Take a good look around you – at your family and friends.  Do the bulk of them seem to be overflowing their chairs? A study published in the New England Journal of Medicine (N Engl J Med 2007;357:370-9)  seems to indicate that if you’re struggling with your weight, there is a good chance that your [...]

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