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Link Time! Kale Chips, Gluten-Free, and More

admin — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 10:00:29 +0000

A new study shows that vegetables may not reduce the risk of developing cancer after all, but that’s no reason to quit trying to get in your five to nine servings a day , says Well blog. Potato chips — salty, crunchy, and full of fat. Kale chips — salty, crunchy, and full of antioxidants . A veggie venture has an easy recipe for this quick and healthy alternative to a bag of chips. Straight cardio workouts aren’t as popular as they used to be, but a reader of Tom Venuto claims that cardio will kill you. Read Tom’s much more measured answer. Where do you stand on the safety and efficiency of cardio ? A lot of people go gluten-free out of necessity. But, the restrictive diet is becoming trendier among celebrities, and other people who like fad diets. Vitamin G wants to know, would you try it? Tired of your boring old workout gear? Or, maybe you’d just like a little fun with your fitness. Handmade hub Etsy has some creative workout gear , and Social Workout picks out their favorites. If you’ve got a tendency to develop shin splints , then you know they can slow down your walking and running workouts. FitSugar has some great tips for preventing this painful condition. What’s your excuse for not exercising today? Divine Caroline has five common workout excuses and how to beat them. How do you stay motivated to exercise ?

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Do You Buy Healthier Foods for Yourself or Others?

admin — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 10:00:20 +0000

sxc.hu: nosheep Perhaps you find yourself pushing cake and cookies on your friends and family when they come to visit. It seems to be the norm in many households, and most people don’t want to offend the host by refusing. Well, a study published in the Journal of Consumer Research , found that consumers choose foods which are less healthy when they are buying for other people. Continue reading…

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[Forum] Serious Body Issues: How Can I Help My Friend?

admin — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 11:00:59 +0000

I basically got an account just so I could get some advice on this problem that I’m having… My best friend is a cutter. Now, I don’t know anything about cutting or depression or anything like that but I know cutting is a serious issue. She started cutting in high school (about five years ago) and she stopped. She went through a lot of crap in high school which made her self-esteem plummet and she suffers from anxiety attacks, and her family has a history of mental conditions. She used to be a gymnist but she stopped gymnastics because of her bad bones in grade nine. And the result of it was bad joints, bones, and large upper arms. The arms is her major problem. Becuase of them, she doesn’t wear short-sleeved shirts, or dresses, or anythign that bares her arms. And her upper arms is where she cuts. I was always friends with her but we became best friends after graduating highschool. That’s when she confided in me her past (she cut, she was a binge eater, was severely depressed and suffered from mental attacks due to her being on improper use of birth control) but she told me that she was over it. And for a little bit, she was. But last winter, she again, got depressed (she doesnt know what the cause was) and made an attempt at suicide, but backed out at the last minute. Then she went through a feeling okay phase. I spent a good summer with her and we had a lot of fun. By the end of summer though she started feeling “fat” again. I’d just like to say that she is five feet tall and weighs less then 110 pounds and believe me, she is petite. Her arms are muscular though due to gymnastics. So I told her to come with me to the gym. I’d been going for the last two years consistently and although I didn’t lose a lot of weight (I wasn’t looking to, anyway), the gym makes me feel good about myself. She agreed and got a gym membership. Every week, while we walked home from the gym together, she would say things like “So it’s been 2/3/4 weeks, and I haven’t lost anything. I might as well give up.” But she kept on going. Then a few months ago she started to tell me that if she didn’t look perfect by the time she was thirty, she would just die. She said she didn’t understand how older people could be “fat” and be okay with themselves. And she said stuff about giving up and why should she bother trying at anything. She would say it jokingly, but it scared me. And then she told me she started cutting. She did it two times in a period of about three months. This was last month, and she hasn’t been cutting since then. I told her that she needs to talk to her psychologist and I’ve told her (the obvious) that cutting is not the solution…And she tells me that since im not a cutter i dont understand what it’s like. She says the cutting she does is not the suicide-type but it’s a release from the pain. She says she would turn to alcohol instead but her father is an alcoholic so she doesnt do it. She tells me that it’s harmless. And…I just DON’T know what to do. I feel like I should tell her family if it’s life-threatening but her cutting isn’t life-threatening. She’s not suicidal anymore (but she may become, again…), and her cutting is just when she’s feeling down and like she says, her way of “dealing.” I’m very frusterated and sad when it comes to her because she always says things like “I’m so fat. I need to lose weight.” She won’t go out with other people because she feels self-conscious. She also is trying to control her binging habits from high school. She mostly has it under control because she is over the severe depression of her past but there are times (like the times she cuts) when she eats and eats. after she eats she gets so angry with herself. And to top it all off, I don’t know what sickness this is but I KNOW THAT IT IS. She takes supplements and vitamins by the bulk. She says they’re natural but I don’t care. She takes about twenty pills a day and I don’t understand WHY. I’m not sure what her family is thinking. They see the bottles of pills but I’m not sure they really know what she’s doing. I love her to death. I don’t deal with any of these problems, I’ve always been healthy and I’m an advocate of the gym and it works for me. I’ve tried helping her in the way that I know works for me. She seems okay (emotionally) these days but I’m sure her problems will come back and her cutting and everything else. Plus her attitude with life and herself is affecting me. I like the way that I am but there are days where I’m bloated and jealous of the girl walking down the street with thin legs and I’ll say it and she’ll look at me and say “yep, you need to lose weight”. The thing is I KNOW i don’t have to lose weight but when your best friend says that you should…It sucks. Actually, just yesterday, we worked out for a good hour and I like to treat myself to steaming or using the sauna after a workout. So we were putting on our bathing suits and (she and I tried out a new gym) when it came down to using the steam room, we had to walk past the pool. We basically had to walk twenty steps to get into the room but she couldnt do it because she was in a bathing suit and couldnt bear the thought of walking past people (mainly, guys) in her suit. So I had to give up the steam room, and left the gym kind of bummed. But I find myself spending a lot of time with her to cheer her up and help her, and I’m not complaining…she and I get along fantastic and she truly does care about me, but I feel like she’s kind of a burden. I absolutely hate to put it that way, but it’s the way that I feel. Sorry for the rambling!!! I just feel like I need to vent. There are a bunch of things in this post and I don’t really know which to focus on so I kind of wrote a whole bunch of everything. Anybody who has advice for me, I would greatly appreciate it.

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[Forum] Dieting Teen, The Start of Change

admin — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 08:24:38 +0000

A woman’s mind is full of secrets; a woman’s body is one of them. Everywhere I look is something telling me to lose weight, whether it is a magazine, a clothing label or even just the tyre around my stomach, I’m a walking dieting failure. At the age of 10 I had a pair of jeans that fit me like a glove I loved them so much and wore them every weekend, I remember thinking I’m fat when these jeans don’t fit me anymore. I was 10 of course they won’t fit me 5 years down the line. But I wish they did. I love food, that’s my fall back. I look around at other people and wish I had their stomach or their body in general. I’m no loner, I’ve got an amazing set of friends and a great boyfriend and I know they will always be there for me, fat or thin. But I’ve never been thin, I was a chubby child and now well it’s gone downhill since. I’ve tried to eat less, and exercise more I went running a bit last summer, but no luck. This is my last ditch chance to lose weight, a diary of what I do, it won’t be all food and exercise some fun too basically to see where the fat teens of today are going wrong. An experiment if you want. Let me fill you in on my situation, I’m 15 years old and I’m 11 stone 4 pounds, I’m classed as overweight and one mark off obese. I’m only 5 foot 2. Read my diary and help me and maybe yourself, we might be the same, have the same problems, the same hopes, of a thin, attractive body. Please enlighten me on programs that have worked on you or others.

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5 Great Tips On Losing Weight

admin — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 17:34:43 +0000

Everyone you talk to seems to have dozens of tips on losing weight. Some are good common sense tips, but some seem to come out of left field. Even people who can’t seem to successfully lose weight and keep it off, seem happy to offer up tips and advice to other people. That’s

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[Forum] HELP: All This Running But No Drop in Weight

admin — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 13:00:54 +0000

From Diet Blog Share: Hi all, I have never posted anything in my entire life, but here goes. I need some advice, and the people here seem to know what they are talking about, and have lots of knowledge. I recently took up running. Well, I shouldn’t say recently…it’s been 5 weeks now. For the first 2 weeks, I ran at a speed of probably 5.5mph, for 30 minutes. Then cool-down at 4mph for 5 minutes. I handled this no problem (even though I had never ran in my life, it wasn’t too bad. I invested in some good gear and sneakers, etc). The third and fourth week, I upped it to a speed of 5.8mph, for 35 minutes, with a 5 minute 4.0 mph cool-down. This week, I have upped to a speed of 6.0mph. YES I feel so good! AND, I ran for 40 minutes, with a 5 minute cool-down at the end (I upped the cool-down to a 4.3). I should add, I ran 5 days a week, except for one week where I could only fit 4 My diet has been immaculate (Ok, ok….except for Friday night, where I do have a few sociables. I still have to *live* and as hard as I have tried, I can’t give this up. I don’t want to badly enough I guess. Any idea how hard it is to sit there and watch all your friends drink and have a good time, and sip pop/juice/water? I dont think so). Lots of lean meats, salads, fruits, sweet potatoes, whole grains and oatmeal, fat free cottage cheese, etc, and 3 litres of water/day. I SWEAR no junk food! Diet has never been a problem for me, I find it easy to eat clean and heathy (I don’t eat red meat either, so it’s basically only chicken and fish). Now, I’m 5′8″, and 144 pounds. I was once upon a time 130 pounds, which I loved. That weight felt very good for me (I’m very small boned, so any extra weight I carry is usually fat. I can wrap my fingers around my wrist with a HUGE overlap). Point is, I want to get back down to my 130 pounds. So, after 5 weeks almost, I stepped on the scales and expected some weight loss at least…not a pound. NOT ONE SINGLE POUND. How discouraging! I love how I feel after each run, and I am motivated and enjoying it. But, today I am feeling like, “I Get up so early, make time in my day, go through all this….and for what?” Someone, anyone…….any insight? Also, post workout hunger/calorie replacement has not been an issue for me. I find the runs actually squash my appetite a bit. But, I always make sure to eat something within the hour of complex carbs and protein mix.

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What Are You Willing To Do To Achieve Your Weight Loss Goals?

admin — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 17:06:41 +0000

What are you willing to do to achieve your weight loss goals? I’m approached quite regularly about which diet is best, which book would I recommend and what exercise program should a person follow. People think they can just purchase a book to read and then some sort of magic occurs whereby reading it will cause their fat to magically disappear. Well, I’m here to break the news to you, the $40 investment in your weight loss book is just the start, there’s a lot of hard work and other expenses involved. Time Investment There’s time invested in your education (reading, watching videos etc), time you’ll spend exercising doing both cardio and weight training. There’s time spent creating your new meal plans as well as preparation of those meals the day before or days in advance. There’s time involved in doing extra laundry because you’re suddenly doing more exercising now on your weight loss journey. Let me ask you this: What’s your favorite television show? How much television are you watching in a given week? 1 Hour? Six? Are you willing to eliminate television to allow yourself time to go to the gym and prepare foods for the next day? If not, then don’t bother buying books that recommend food and exercise programs? It takes time to prepare food for 5 or 6 meals in a day and to go to the gym once or twice a day. Weight loss requires a time investment. Food Investment The quality of the food you put in your body is directly proportional to the quality of your cells. It’s your cells that create energy and make your various bodily systems run, and if they’re given the best quality food, then they’re able to regenerate and be healthy. Conversely, low quality food creates a low quality cell. A low quality cell is not up to the demand of generating energy nor the proper removal of wastes which then results in sickness and disease. In conversation with a fellow regarding his food program and how he could make corrections to his diet to improve his health, burn fat, improve his workouts and achieve his weight loss goal, I suggested a few “new” products. Oatmeal, some whole grain wraps, spring mix salad, and Essential Fatty Acid, Almond butter and whole grain basmati rice were a few places to begin. “You didn’t tell me how expensive it was going to be!” was his response. Well, I don’t consider it expensive, so I would not have said that it was. Our cells are our power plants in our body. Our body is constantly rebuilding itself daily and hourly. Our skeleton replaces itself once a year and the muscular lining of our stomach and our intestines is replaced every 3 to 4 days so it only makes sense to give it the highest quality food. Doesn’t it? You’re probably going to come to the same conclusion that most other people do. The food I put in my body creates a healthy body and I must take care in my food choices. Whole grain oatmeal costs more money than cocoa puffs. Raw almonds cost more than hickory smoked almonds and you probably never knew what Essential Fats or Pro Biotics were. Weight loss requires an investment in food. Cutting Expenses To Reach Your Goal If you’re not able to increase the amount of food you eat financially or the quality of the food you eat (organic), then what are you willing to do to get it. Are you willing to cut some other costs? Are you willing to increase your sales at your job or home business to be able to afford this new change? The first reasonable step is to make some switches or replacements. Take note of non nutritional foods in your day – consider snacks, junk foods, coffee, pop, cigarettes (I hope you’re not still smoking), milk or dairy products, alcohol, vitamins, tums, Rolaids, pepto bismol etc and see how much you’re spending on a daily or monthly basis. Are you willing to replace these for higher quality nutritional foods that will support you in your weight loss goals? It can be a scary thought for some people. Others accept the challenge readily because they’ve truly committed to their weight loss goals and are willing to do Whatever It Takes! Switching and replacing is the easiest thing to do. Weight Loss requires sacrifice. Invest in Yourself Your body, your mind, your soul and becoming the best you can be is the single best investment you can make. Make the decision to eat the cleanest food you can, make the healthiest choices you can, begin to switch from non nutritional foods to nutritional foods and let go negativity in your life. Weight loss is easy, but requires some investment. Eat Well, Be Well Rob Cooper – Guest Author

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What’s 100 Calories A Day?

admin — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 17:01:47 +0000

According to the American Dietetic Association, the difference between weight loss and weight gain can be as little as 100 calories a day. Most Americans suffer from ‘weight creep’ – those nagging pounds that creep on over the years – at an average of about 2 pounds per year. That’s 20 pounds in ten years. 40 pounds in 20. Can you afford to weigh 40 pounds more than you do now in twenty years? The difference could be as simple as cutting out 100 calories a day from your daily diet – or adding 100 calories a day to your daily routine – or a combination of both. How hard is it to cut 100 calories a day out of your diet? Take a look. Are you a coffee lover? If you drink your coffee with whole milk, you can save 100 calories a day by drinking two cups with skim milk instead. Do you drink non-diet soft drinks? One 16 ounce Pepsi is 250 calories. Skip one Pepsi a day and you’ll be cutting out two and a half times the suggested calorie reduction. Substitute a plain donut for a jelly donut. You’ll cut out 120 calories. Think you’re doing better by choosing the lighter croissant? Think again. A croissant has as many calories as a jelly donut – 289. If you eat out at Mickey D’s, skip the dressing on your salad, or you might as well have a burger. One packet of French dressing has 160 calories. If you go out with the guys, drink one less beer. Each 12 oz beer, even a light brand, averages 100 calories. Want to burn it up instead of avoiding it? Here’s how much time you need to spend at various activities to burn 100 calories. Swimming energetically for just 15 minutes will burn 100 calories. You can burn 100 calories for every hour that you do housework. Only have ten minutes? Jump rope. At 700 calories per hour, you can burn up 100 calories in just 10 minutes! Knit for an hour and fifteen minutes. At 85 calories an hour, it’s not a major calorie burner, but if you combine that with the potato chips you can’t munch while you’re knitting you could be saving some substantial calories. Stay late at the office for an extra forty – unless of course, you’re missing your workout at the gym. An hour of office work burns about 140 calories. Hop on the trampoline for fifteen minutes. Moderate aerobics exercise burns 400 calories an hour. Put on some music and dance on the tramp through four songs and you’ll be doing great. Go for a 10 minute walk – but aim for a brisk pace. Power walking burns 600 calories an hour. You can burn 100 in ten minutes. Play a round of golf at the club. Half an hour of golfing – without a golf cart – burns 120 calories. The beauty of it all is that you can build any of the suggestions above into your daily routine, and create a healthy habit that will keep off extra pounds and take off those that you want to lose now.

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PETA Urges Fat People, Go Vegetarian To "Save the Whales"

admin — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 14:00:02 +0000

Obese people should go vegetarian, or so says PETA. The much maligned animal rights group’s new message is, “Save the Whales” by giving up meat if you need to lose weight. It’s clever, but is it effective? Continue reading…

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[Forum] Does Exercise Lead to Weight Loss?

admin — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 11:00:05 +0000

From Diet Blog Share: I was reading this article from Time Magazine, “Why Exercise Won’t Make You Thin,” and found it very intriguing. I wanted to hear other people’s thoughts on the story. It essentially says that exercise is not necessary for weight loss, and people will see results from diet alone. It argues that exercise increases appetite, and leads to over consumption–people would be better off without the exercise. What are your thoughts on this?