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John C White is a weight loss and health expert. His motivation to learn about this subject was driven by a desire to have the best personal health and to help overweight members in his own family. To gain a better understanding of nutrition, physiology, metabolism and biochemistry, he has read and studied hundreds of books and articles on the subject, including scholarly and academic texts such as Handbook of Nutrition and Food, Handbook ... [More]

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  • What You Should Know About Meal Replacement
    [Health-and-Fitness:Nutrition] There's nothing like a hot meal to warm your palates, but there are instances when you just don't have the time or it's just too inconvenient to prepare one. This is where meal replacements come to the rescue. These little darlings make it easy to make sure that you are getting the nutrition that you need, plus keeping those hunger gremlins at bay, which increases the likelihood that you will stay on your diet.


  • Resistance Bands Versus Weight Machines, Which is Better?
    [Health-and-Fitness:Exercise] Resistance bands or weight machines, which is better? Each has their advantages and disadvantages. Resistance bands are convenient and easy to use, but only offer resistance when you stretch them. Weight machines of the other hand offer resistance throughout the entire motion. However, they are big and bulky and even hand weights carry a certain amount of risk when using them.


  • Planning - The Key to Successful Dieting
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Unreached dieting goals can be traced back to one limiting factor- not planning. Given that we all know that eating too much food packs on the pounds, the solution to the problem seems obvious: eat less. So as oppose to planning to eat less, many of you just simply try to implement this principal without much forethought. When you don't get the results that you were expecting, you wonder what went wrong. Frustrated, you give up.


  • Getting Pleasure Back Into Diet Foods
    [Health-and-Fitness:Nutrition] When you say that you love cheesecake or think chocolate is the closes thing to heaven on earth, it's not the food itself that is making you feel that way, but the feelings it elicit. If horseradish or onions could generate those feelings, you would be craving for their taste as well.


  • How Exercising Can Make You Thin
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] After reading the Time article "Why Exercise Won't Make You Thin", you can easily come away with the impression that exercise has little effect on weight loss, or may be the cause of you gaining more weight. Even though I agree that exercise alone will not make you thin - unless of course you have the time to exercise several hours each day-, the article's somewhat dismissive tone that exercise is of little value in losing weight is false.


  • Muscle Mass - Use it Or Lose It
    [Health-and-Fitness:Build-Muscle] Muscle mass is what helps to keep you strong and energetic. It's also the underling source of the eye candy that many of us enjoy looking at. More importantly, it is also the primary reason that given two people of the same size, one of them may look healthier than the other.


  • Is Your Dieting Destroying Your Muscle?
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] During dieting, many dieters place their primary focus on losing weight at all cost. When they look in the mirror and pinch their sides they just want all of that to go away. To accomplish this some dieters are willing to try just about anything. What many of these people don't realize is that their dieting methods may be causing them to lose much more than just fat. Many are also losing a significant amount of muscle mass as well. Without realizing it, they are making it harder to lose those extra inches.


  • Is Exercise Decreasing Your Leptin Levels?
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Known as the hunger hormone, leptin is a protein that plays a key role in regulating energy intake and energy expenditure, including appetite and metabolism. It's production is primary attributed to adipose or fat cells in your body. When concentrations of the hormone increases, your body is sent a signal that you are no longer hungry.


  • Oxycholesterol - High Cholesterol's Newest Villain
    [Health-and-Fitness:Heart-Disease] Healthy diets not only manage the waistline, they also combat high cholesterol. Your total cholesterol and the LDL cholesterol are what health professionals constantly warn us about, but they may not be the worst of the lot. According to new findings, a type of cholesterol called oxycholesterol may be the most serious cardiovascular health threat of all.


  • Water - A Low Cost Weight Loss Supplement
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Weight loss can be trying and difficult. It is probably not a dieter around that doesn't wish that it was just as easy to lose weight as it was to put it own. Unfortunately the reality for most is that this is not the case. The fact is that weight loss requires a formation of a solid plan and dedication to follow it through, things that many dieters do not do.


  • Anti-Aging Effects of Extra Virgin Olive Oil
    [Health-and-Fitness:Anti-Aging] Dropping a significant amount of weight can help you look years younger. In addition to losing pounds, eating certain foods also has a positive effect on the aging process. According to scientists from the University of Florence in Italy, extra-virgin olive oil produces such positive effects.


  • Controlling Overeating With 20 Percent Less
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Have you ever ate a stale three day old pizza? How about cold soggy fries? If you have, you're not alone. Many of us have a habit of eating foods that don't even taste good. Not surprisingly, the question is why.


  • Yoga and Mindful Eating
    [Health-and-Fitness:Yoga] Many health problems can be traced back to bad eating habits. The development of these habits stem from behavior unconsciously learned throughout your life. Mindful eating is an attempt to address this problem.


  • Factors Effecting Metabolism
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Your metabolism involves a complex series of reactions that control how your body processes the food you ingest for its conversion into energy. A fast metabolism generally refers to one that uses the ingested food primarily for energy, which means very little is stored as excess fat. A slow metabolism is just the opposite. Foods are broken down and used as energy, but a significant part of it may also be stored as fat.


  • Eating Smalls Meals to Create a Natural Appetite Suppressant
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Hunger is by far the biggest obstacle to overcome when losing weight. Unlike exercise, which you can finish in less than an hour, hunger can stay with you all day. Fortunately there is a natural means to overcome this problem or at least keep it at bay. This simple method is the practice of eating several small meals a day. By making this your new eating behavior, this practice can serve as a natural appetite suppressant.


  • Strength Training Without Weights
    [Health-and-Fitness:Exercise] Using weights to strength train is the most popular method for this activity. However, despite its effectiveness, there are other alternatives to use to build muscle and power, all without the need for weights.


  • Chewing, Swallowing, and Processed Foods
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Processed foods for the most part are calorie dense, low nutritional food substances. Because they consist of an abundance of calories, consuming them easily adds pounds to your waist. However, it is not just the calorie density of these foods that leads to excess weight, it also has to do with the composition of the food as well.


  • Replacing Refined Or Processed Foods For Effective Weight Loss
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Obesity or simply the gaining of excess weight can be traced back to the eating of certain types of refined or processed foods. Baked goods in this group are generally made with white flour, sugar, and salt. Each of these ingredients, in there own way, contribute to the gaining of excess weight, as well as being instrumental in the development of poor health.


  • Liquid Multivitamin - A Better Supplement Source
    [Health-and-Fitness:Supplements] Most people at one time or another have taken a multivitamin. Even though little research exists that document their effectiveness, people still swear by them.


  • How to Avoid Late Evening Munchies
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] It's the end of the day and like clockwork, those late evening munchies start to show up. Try as you may, you can only hold out from these desires for so long before you grab a bag of chips or cookies, or some other high calorie, low nutritious food source to calm the urge.


  • Omega-3 - Promoting Better Health
    [Health-and-Fitness:Nutrition] Omega-3 is an important fatty acid source. It benefits the function of your brain cells, helps to fight inflammation, and aids in calming your mood. Unlike omega-6, omega-3 is deficient in most foods commonly eaten, which has to do with the fact that many diets consists primarily of processed foods.


  • Essential Amino Acids and Their Functions
    [Health-and-Fitness:Nutrition] There are eight essential amino acids that are considered necessary for your body: leucine, lysine, isoleucine, phenylalanine, threonine, tryptophan, methionine, and valine. Furthermore, a essential amino acid is defined as an amino acid that cannot be made within your body, so it must be obtained from foods that contain these substances. As for their functions, the following is a summary of some their important benefits.


  • A "How To" For Your Homemade Energy Drink
    [Health-and-Fitness:Supplements] When you are feeling sluggish, an energy drink can help get your juices back flowing. If you are on a diet, the only drawback is all the sugar that most of the drinks contain. You can buy one of the many sugar-free varieties, but for some, the sugar substitutes leave a bad taste in your mouth, not to mention how expensive they can be.


  • Superfoods Rx Diet Review
    [Health-and-Fitness:Popular-Diets] The Superfoods Rx diet bases its weigh loss method on eating certain foods that contain a rich array of nutrients. These foods, also known as functional foods, play a key role in the prevention of cancer, while also helping to reduce the risk of heart disease, stroke, hypertension, diabetes, and other ailments. By consuming these foods, the creators of the diets contend that you can not only lose weight, but improve your overall health.


  • Burn Big Belly Fat Faster
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] By applying some proven techniques, you do have some influence on the rate at which you can lose those extra inches surrounding your belly. In addition to your diet, you can add several techniques to your belly banishing plan to help speed up the process. These techniques will not magically make your midsection disappear overnight, but they will help to increase the burning of fat.


  • Protein Content in Beans
    [Health-and-Fitness:Nutrition] Protein, a macronutrient, is essential for repairing and growing muscles, manufacturing hormones and enzymes, and for helping to maintain low blood sugar. These protein sources for many of you tend to come from meats. However, you need not limit yourself to just relying on the protein content found in meat. Beans are also a good, rich protein food source.


  • The Unique Benefits of Flax Seed Oil
    [Health-and-Fitness:Nutrition] Flax seed oil can assists in weight loss and in an overall improvement in your health. As oppose to many other supplements, it is natural and when taken in reasonable doses has no long term detrimental side effects. So, if you are having trouble reaching your fitness goals, supplementing with the oil may be just what you need.


  • Exercise Recovery Processes
    [Health-and-Fitness:Exercise] The benefits of exercise as an aid in improving your health, as well as a means to faster and more lasting weight loss, is well documented. However, less well publicized, but equally important, is the need for exercise recovery. To understand why recovery is so important, let's briefly go over what happens during exercise.


  • Lentils - An Extraordinary Superfood
    [Health-and-Fitness:Nutrition] Lentils are one of nature's most extraordinary superfoods. This little seed boosts an abundance of vital nutrients and best of all, it is inexpensive to purchase. Whether you are looking to loose weight or just looking for more healthy food alternatives, lentils fit the bill.


  • Beginner Weight Training Tips
    [Health-and-Fitness:Exercise] Weight training has long been recognized to have many health benefits. For those of you just starting out, these beginner weight training tips will help you to avoid some of the common pitfalls and mistakes many beginners make. By following these tips, you can look forward to lowering your risk of injury, getting more out of each workout, and avoiding some unnecessary pain.


  • How to Use Your Basal Metabolic Rate to Control Your Daily Calories
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Deciding on your daily calorie intake plays a major role in how effectively you lose weight. If you eat too many calories, you won't lose any weight. If you eat too few, you body's metabolism will slow down, and as a result, try to hold onto more of the calories you ingest.


  • Lean Fish List
    [Health-and-Fitness:Nutrition] Lean fish is a great source of protein. It is light on your stomach and many varieties are full of the healthy omega 3 fatty acids, a necessary fat that is unfortunately low in most diets.


  • Flavonoid in Citrus Found to Prevent Obesity
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Citrus, in particular grapefruit, has been shown to contain properties that enhance your body's ability to burn fat. Now, more research is out that points to how a flavonoid, derived from citrus fruits, has been shown to prevent weight gain. In addition, this derivation has also been shown to prevent other signs of metabolic syndrome.


  • What is Metabolic Syndrome?
    [Health-and-Fitness:Diabetes] The term metabolic syndrome has been discussed in the news periodically when referring to the health of an individual, but what exactly is it? According to the Mayo Clinic the syndrome has to do with a group of conditions that occur together that increase your risk of heart disease, stroke and diabetes.


  • Feeling Fuller With Fewer Calories
    [Health-and-Fitness:Nutrition] Losing weight requires you to burn more calories than you take in. However, feeling full while eating less of the types of foods that led to you being overweight is not easy. Instead you need to start to consume foods that will enable you to feel fuller with fewer calories. Without this, sticking to a long-term diet will be next to impossible.


  • Muscle Soreness Relief List
    [Health-and-Fitness:Pain-Management] If there is any type of intensity to your workout, then, from time to time, you will undoubtedly encounter muscle soreness. And even if your intensity is not that high, but you haven't been exercising in a while, you should also expect to experience soreness in your muscles.


  • Calorie Restriction Diet Leads to Longer Healthier Life
    [Health-and-Fitness:Nutrition] Do you need more reasons to cut back on your calories and lose weight? Well here's a big one. A 20 year study found that consuming fewer calories leads to a longer and a healthier life. In fact, because of the great details in this study, it is likely to provide the most detail insight into the link between calorie restriction and extended life.


  • Jogging Tips For Weight Loss
    [Health-and-Fitness:Exercise] Jogging is one of the simplest activities that you can start to do for weight loss. In fact, millions of people each day take advantage of this activity to not only lose weight, but also to keep their heart strong, which also serves to improve their health by decreasing their risk to heart disease. Plus, as a side benefit, it is a great way to improve your self-image as well as relieve stress.


  • Link Between Obesity and Diabetes Proven
    [Health-and-Fitness:Obesity] A link between obesity and the onset of Type 2 diabetes has been proven by a study at Monash University. This discovery could eventually lead to the design of a drug to prevent the disease.


  • New Research Suggest Vinegar May Naturally Fight Body Fat
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Toss away the salad dressing and start dashing on the vinegar. A study, performed by researchers in Japan, reports that there is new evidence that vinegar can help to prevent accumulation of body fat and weight gain.


  • Common Thoughts That Cause Overeating
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] When it comes to dieting, most people believe that it they can find the right diet and exercise plan, losing weight will be easy. This is only partly true. Like with 99.999% of other things in your life, your thoughts will determine how successful you become.


  • Benefits of Whey Protein Nutrition
    [Health-and-Fitness:Nutrition] Protein nutrition is an important part of any well balanced diet. However, being the busy person that you are, there are instances when you don't have the time to prepare a healthy source of the nutrient. An excellent substitution for the on-the-go person to use instead is whey protein. This protein source occurs naturally and is found in foods consumed every day.


  • Lower - Body Home Exercises
    [Health-and-Fitness:Exercise] Exercise, when applied with a proper diet, speeds up weight loss. Strength training exercise helps to build up muscle, which is the best way to continually burn fat. The reason for this is that muscle burns fat faster, which helps to speed up your metabolism. An important type of strength training exercise is lower-body exercise, which works your legs. Your lower body has one of the largest muscle groups, and as such is valuable in burning fat.


  • Two Best Tools For Home Health Risk Assessment
    [Health-and-Fitness:Diseases] Short of a full range of tests performed by your medical doctor, there are some tools that you can use for a general home health risk assessment. These tools are free and with a little knowledge, you can determine your general health status. Mind you, this will not tell you if you have any diseases, but you can learn if you are at higher risk for certain diseases.


  • Controlling Your Blood Sugar to Lose Weight
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Each health expert has there own philosophy about what they believe is the best way to lose weight. However, if there is one thing that most if not all would agree upon is that the quickest way to start losing fat is to control your blood sugar. Yes, you have probably seen this phrase used a lot on this site and others. But before you can truly learn how to control it, you need to know what it is.


  • Preventing Diabetes With Low Glycemic Index Foods
    [Health-and-Fitness:Diabetes] Diabetes can be one of the consequences of overindulgence and bad eating habits. These bad food choices creates an environment in which this disease can develop and progress. Unless better eating habits are formed, diabetes, as well as other diseases, could be part of your future.


  • Find Support For Weight Loss
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Let's face it. Following a weight loss plan can be a lonely undertaking. At times it may seem as though you are the only person going through this tough spot in your diet. To make this process easier, you need to get yourself some support. There are a number of ways that you can do this. The following are three that you can choose from.


  • The 4 Best Natural Foods For Weight Loss
    [Health-and-Fitness:Nutrition] Many people like popping pills to aid in weight loss. The problem with this is that most if not all of these pills come with some warnings attached to them. A more effective and safe way of losing weight is to go with natural foods. Yes, I know that natural foods can be dangerous as well, but in most cases the amount you would have to eat to cause you harm is out of the range for most people. So that should not be that big of a concern.


  • Spruce Up Your Fats With Omega 3
    [Health-and-Fitness:Supplements] Despite much of the bad press surrounding fat as the cause of many health problems, not all fat is unhealthy for you. This is especially true for omega 3 fatty acids. For one thing, this little gem enables your cells to develop properly and is a key building block for your eyes and brain.


  • Research Shows How High Carbohydrate Foods Raise Risks For Heart Problems
    [Health-and-Fitness:Heart-Disease] For years health professionals have been preaching the ills of simple carbohydrates, especially as it relates to your heart health. Now, research from Tel Aviv University shows exactly how these carbohydrate rich foods increase your risk for future heart problems.


  • Weight Loss and Blood Sugar
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] High blood sugar levels correlate with being overweight and rapid weight gain. The reason for this being that high blood sugar causes insulin to rise to high levels in your body, which is also a signal to your body to start storing fat. As such weight loss is more difficult when your blood sugar level is high.


  • Power Breakfast Foods
    [Health-and-Fitness:Nutrition] Arguably the most important meal of any weight loss program is breakfast. The main benefit of a good breakfast is that it gets your digestive system back to work, which also brings your body out of its semi-fasting state. Moreover, when you wake up in the mourning, all things considered, your insulin level should be low, which coincides with no food being in your stomach. Because you are coming out of this semi-fasting state, there is a risk of spiking your blood sugar or glucose levels, which of course leads to more fat on your hips.


  • Individualized Diet and Exercise Plan
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] When it comes to weight loss, diet and exercise plans are not a one-size fits all proposition. For your plan to be the most effective, you will need an individualized diet and exercise plan. When considering how to devise an individualized plan, there are several questions that you first need to answer.


  • Being Overweight Affects Bone Development in Growing Kids
    [Health-and-Fitness:Obesity] It is well known that obesity is now a major concern for children. Besides having a negative effect on their self-esteem and increasing their risk of developing diabetes and other diseases, researchers from South Dakota State University found that being overweight effects the development of their bones as well.


  • Healthy Fats For Good Health
    [Health-and-Fitness:Nutrition] Even though excess fats cause problems everywhere from obesity to heart conditions, they are still crucial for a well functioning body. Therefore you still need to supply your body with healthy fats to maintain optimal health.


  • Food Portion Control Scales
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Consuming large food portions is a key cause of being overweight or obese. To keep food portions in check, it is beneficial to use a food portion control scale to measure out the amount of food to eat. For those unfamiliar with a food portion control scale, it is a device that is used for weighing your food. These devices can provide and accurate accounting of how much food you are about to eat.


  • Food Portion Control
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Of the steps taken to lose weight, the single greatest hurdle to overcome is eating large food portions. As such, food portion control is a skill that dieters must develop if they want to lose those excess inches quickly and permanently. That being said, the following are some actions that you can take that can help you accomplish this undertaking. In preparation for this endeavor, keep in mind that a serving size is the central component to food portion control.


  • Learning How to Eat
    [Health-and-Fitness:Nutrition] If someone said to you that you need to learn how to eat, you would probably look at them as if they had lost his or her mind. After all, you were eating before you could walk or talk. This being the case, how is it that someone can make a statement like this.


  • Being Overweight - Health Risks and BMI
    [Health-and-Fitness:Obesity] Before starting a weight loss program or just to get an overview of your general fittness, health professionals use measurements such as BMI to get a general accounting of your health. BMI's between 25 and less than 30 signifies that you are overweight. Any value of 30 and over is classified as obese.


  • L-Glutamine and Hunger Pangs
    [Health-and-Fitness:Supplements] Hunger pangs are one of the primary reasons so many dieters cannot stay on their weight loss plan. To help control these pangs, try some L-glutamine. L-glutamine is an amino acid that is found naturally in many foods including beef, chicken, eggs, and dairy products. It is also the most abundant amino acid found in human muscle and blood.


  • Volumetrics Diet Plan Review
    [Health-and-Fitness:Popular-Diets] The Volumetrics diet plan is a weight loss plan that was created by nutritionist Barbara Rolls, Ph.D. The diet is based on her observation that a person typically eats the same weight of food everyday. From this she concluded that to lose weight a person can eat the same amount of food, but the foods should be lower in energy density.


  • The Best Chest Exercises
    [Health-and-Fitness:Exercise] Chest exercises help to develop an area on your body that some might say is the most attractive body part. It signals vitality and health, and it just makes the owner of a well-developed chest feel better. Although typically associated as a male exercise, exercises for your chest are equally important and beneficial for women. Although the exercises will not transform cup sizes, they will help you by lifting sagging chest and breast and enhancing your cleavage.


  • Frustrated With Weight Loss
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] If you have become frustrated with your weight loss program, you are not alone. Many others have experienced the same exasperation. Typically what happens is that you have reached the dreaded diet's plateau. This is when your efforts to lose weight do not produce any results.


  • 7 Tips For Losing Fat Efficiently
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] To lose weight as quickly as your body will allow, you need to do things that promote losing fat efficiently. The following are 7 tips that will allow you to do this.


  • Before You Start Dieting
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] As you start dieting to lose weight, you would no doubt like for the process to be quick, without sacrifice, and done with as little effort as possible. However, the weight that may have taken you years to put on will not be lost in a day. Furthermore, expecting to continue to behave in the same fashion while imagining a different outcome is like sticking your hand in the fire expecting this time it won't burn.


  • Track Your Calories With a Digital Pedometer
    [Health-and-Fitness:Exercise] A digital pedometer, a instrument that measures the steps you take by using body motion, is a convenient device to use to track the amount of calories you burned from walking. Small and lightweight, it can be placed on your belt or carried in your pocket. The device is also more than just a measuring tool. By noting the distance you walked and calories you burned, it can be used as a motivator to increase your physical activity.


  • Power Foods List
    [Health-and-Fitness:Nutrition] Power foods can be considered ordinary edibles that may be able to prevent diseases. More than just vitamins and minerals, scientist have discovered that these foods contain an abundance of natural chemicals that may have preventative powers over life-threatening ailments.


  • Researchers Engineer Chemical Pathway to Prevent Obesity
    [Health-and-Fitness:Obesity] It seems as though every other day news is coming out reporting on the high cost of obesity. With the ease at which high-fat and high-calorie foods are available, the problem is not going away anytime soon. Because of the problem's severity, more effective treatments need to be developed to prevent and deal with this matter. An ideal treatment method would entail being able to induce your body to burn fat more rapidly, thus allowing it to use more fat energy and storing less of it on your body.


  • Easy to Remember Weight Loss Meal Tips
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Measuring food portions to count calories for your weight loss meals can be time consuming and tedious. Plus, besides not having the time, carrying around a scale with you everywhere you go is just not an option. To make sticking to your meal plan simpler, here are some easy to remember meal planning and eating tips.


  • How to Lose Those Unsightly Love Handles
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Love handles are those protruding flabs of fat that reside on the sides of your body. They are of course the unwanted gifts you get from all of your overeating. Assuming that you've had enough of looking at them, you now want to know how to lose those unsightly love handles.


  • Are Sports Drinks Keeping You Fat?
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Sports drinks are a great way to get that extra burst of energy in your workouts. Studies, such as the one performed at the Medical School at the University of Aberdeen, found that those who ingested sports drinks were able to delay the onset of fatigue and exercise longer. Given this and similar reports elsewhere, it is of little wonder that these drinks are so popular.


  • Foods High in Fiber For Weight Loss and More
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Foods high in fiber are important in weight loss as well as for your overall health. In addition to helping to reduce risk of certain diseases, they also help to control insulin levels in your body. When insulin levels are high, your body is in a fat storing mode instead of fat burning one.


  • Weight Loss - More Than Just Looking Good
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] A primary motivation for wanting to lose weight is to look better. Even though there is nothing intrinsically unattractive about being overweight, studies have shown that society does offer more rewards to those who are more in line with what is considered attractive: a slim, well-defined figure. Even if this is the case, there are much more worthy reasons for weight loss, reasons that even the most cynical of persons would agree are worth your effort. The following are several of these.


  • Appetite Control and Weight Loss
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] A key to any successful weight loss plan or management is of course appetite control. Needless to say restraining it is not as simple as flicking a switch. If it were, overeating would be an easily controllable behavior, and weight loss would be straightforward and trouble-free.


  • Broccoli and Your Health
    [Health-and-Fitness:Nutrition] Broccoli, considered a superfood by some, is one of those items that offers a multitude of benefits for your health. This is because the plant, a dark green cruciferous species, is highly valued for its rich nutrients and potent anti-cancer fighting properties.


  • The Sonoma Diet Review
    [Health-and-Fitness:Popular-Diets] The Sonoma diet is a plan that is promoted as "the most flavorful weight loss plan under the sun." The plan emphasizes the enjoyment of eating flavorful foods, rather than its restrictions. The diet was developed by Connie Guttersen and is based on the cultures of the Sonoma region of California and of the Mediterranean coast of Europe.


  • Negative Calories
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] When something is described as being negative, it is usually something to be avoided. When it has to do with negative calories, this is not the case. But what exactly are negative calories. Well we all know that foods have calories associated with them. A medium apple has around 80 Calories. So when you eat one, you can expect 80 Calories of energy to now be in your body. But to be useful your body must first process the apple...


  • Overindulgence and Weight Loss
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Even though you are trying to lose weight, overindulgence during holidays or special events can easily be forgiven. Other times, however, you tend not to be so understanding. As a result, you beat yourself up mentally for eating too much. Needless to say, this doesn't help your self-esteem and, since this is not the first time that it has happen, it certainly doesn't keep you from not repeating the behavior again.


  • Practical Tips For Resistance Training Programs
    [Health-and-Fitness:Exercise] Building muscle through resistance training programs helps you to more easily and quickly burn calories. In fact the higher the percentage of muscle to fat on your body, the higher your metabolism. This means you can eat more food without getting fat. To avoid injury and to get the most out of your time spent doing the exercises, here are some practical tips for you to follow.


  • Stop Binge Eating With Your Emotions
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Binge eating is characterized by what seems to be an inability to stop eating or an irresistible urge to eat. We all occasionally gorge out, especially around the holidays or special events. But it is when this pattern of eating occurs with regularity that it becomes a problem.


  • Controlling Hunger Hormones Ghrelin and Peptide YY With Exercise
    [Health-and-Fitness:Exercise] One way to control your appetite is by exercising. By exercising, your body is able to suppress your hunger by effecting the hormones ghrelin and peptide YY that are produced in the your stomach. The hormone ghrelin is known to stimulate appetite, while the hormone peptide YY is known to suppress it. This observation leads to an important question. Which exercises are better at effecting these hunger related hormones: aerobic or non-aerobic exercises?


  • Science of Weight Loss
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] "No matter what I do, I just can't seem to lose weight." You may have made that statement yourself or heard it made by others. The quandary resulting from the statement might lead you to think that there is some mystical incantation or magical beans for weight loss. Rest assured, there is nothing so other-worldly. The laws of science do apply. You just need to understand what they are.


  • GI Diet Review
    [Health-and-Fitness:Popular-Diets] This article is a review of the GI Diet. The diet is based on the principal that by eating foods with a low GI index, you will then be able to more quickly and easily lose weight.


  • Calorie Restriction
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Calorie restriction is an integral part of any weight loss plan. Unless you plan to spend hours each day exercising, this is the only method that assures you of losing inches from around your waist. So if you are to have the success you want, you need to get this right.


  • Does Spot Reduction Work?
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] The idea behind spot reduction is that exercising a specific muscle group helps you to burn fat that is in close proximity to that muscle group faster than fat located in other areas of your body. Therefore, when you exercise specific muscles, you should be able to selectively reduce more fat in that area than performing exercises for different muscle groups.


  • Time Saving Measures For Your Weight Loss Plan
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Whether you are successful on you diet can come down to something as simple as convenience. Preparing meals and dealing with other diet necessities can be time consuming. It is these small little inconveniences that have sabotaged so many well intentioned dieters. To make sure it doesn't happen to you, here are some simple things you can do to make the process fit in better with your daily routine.


  • Maintaining an Active Metabolism For Lifelong Weight Maintenance
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] An active metabolism is one of the keys to staying slim and maintaining your weight, as well as burning fat. With it you can eat more food without gaining weight and burn more calories while at rest. As kids, we all had it, but as we grow older it starts to slow down. However by practicing the following three simple activities, you can maintain an energetic metabolism as you age.


  • Aide Your Weight Loss With These Sleeping Tips
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Sleep is an important part in helping your body burn fat. Without it, studies have shown that you tend to eat more, which thus makes weight loss more difficult. You can get more sleep by establishing good sleeping habits. To get you on your way, here are some tips for better sleep.


  • Exercise Frequency and Weight Loss
    [Health-and-Fitness:Exercise] Exercise frequency is an important component of weight loss. Some factors effecting how often you choose to exercise will be your goals, your level of physical fitness, and the time you have to devote to an exercise program.


  • Change Your Behavior For Consistent Weight Loss
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] You are all ready to start your weight loss plan. You mapped out what you are going to do and you have even prepared your meals. Yet despite your best intentions, you find yourself overeating. Why did you do it?


  • Review of the Cabbage Soup Diet Plan
    [Health-and-Fitness:Popular-Diets] The Cabbage Soup diet is another fad weight loss diet that is centered around eating cabbage soup. The origins of the soup are uncertain, but it is believed to go back as far as World War I. During that time, besides cabbage the American soldiers had few options for vegetables. Also eating it offered them protection against scurvy, a disease deficiency caused by inadequate vitamin C in their diet.


  • Good Fats For Weight Loss
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] For many, fats are considered the enemy when it comes to weight loss. The truth is that good fat is an essential nutrient in your diet, as it allows your body to absorb certain vitamins, helps you to feel full, and provides cushion for vital organs. Of course not all fats are good for you.


  • Visual Cues For Serving Sizes
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Monitoring serving or portion sizes is an important part of weight loss. However, measuring out the exact amount can be time consuming and tedious. Luckily there is a easier and quicker way of doing this. Though not as exact as a scale, it does save you some time, which will hopefully make it easier for you to follow through on your weight loss plan.


  • Relax Your Way to Weight Loss
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] As well as making it difficult to deal in other areas of your life, tension, stress, and pressure can also hamper your weight loss efforts. You want to focus on improving your health, not mitigating mental meltdowns. To counter these clobbers of calm, you need to make a conscious effort to periodically relax.


  • Vibrate Away Belly Fat
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] The shaking you may be feeling is not from a earthquake, but from dieter's vibrating fitness machines. According to a study presented at the European Congress on Obesity, researchers found that vibration plate exercise machines may help you lose weight, plus trim that particularly harmful belly fat found between your organs.


  • Weight Control Methods
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Because of the large amount of overweight people in our society, there are a preponderance of weight control methods. Some methods are effective. Some are just a quick fix to a serious problem. But regardless of their effectiveness, they are still in high demand. To decide which weight control method is best for you, here's a list of some of the most common.


  • Why Cool-Down is Important After High Intensity Workouts
    [Health-and-Fitness:Exercise] High intensity workouts are indispensable at helping to increase your weight loss. However, to recover more quickly and safely, you need to cool-down properly. A cool-down allows your heart rate, blood pressure, and breathing rate to shift downward and back toward resting levels.


  • 3 Components of a High Intensity Workout For Rapid Weight Loss
    [Health-and-Fitness:Exercise] To support any type of rapid weight loss, you are going to need to perform a high intensity workout. This workout is the endurance phase of your cardio exercises. This phase is where the majority of fat burning occurs, so you want to get the most out of your training intensity.


  • Warm Up Exercises For Cardio
    [Health-and-Fitness:Aerobics-Cardio] For rapid weight loss, cardio exercises must be an integral part of your routine. But before you jump into them full steam, you need to properly warm up. Warm up provides an transition period from your resting state to the full intensity of your workouts. During this period, there are two essential steps that you need to perform.


  • Risks of Bariatric Surgery For Weight Loss
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] I've been receiving a lot of email recently on Bariatric surgery for weight loss. This procedure involves decreasing the size of your stomach or decreasing the amount of food that can enter the stomach at one time. Even though I'm not an advocate of surgical procedures for losing weight, I suppose their are situations when they may be necessary.


  • Whole Grains and Weight Loss
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Choosing whole grains over simple carbohydrates for weight loss has its advantages. Even though the amount of calories consumed is the main determining factor in losing weight, the type of foods you choose to eat can have a dramatic effect on how fast you lose the weight. This is why whole grains are a superior choice when compared to processed foods that many of us are used to eating.


  • Do Your Muscles Weigh More Than Your Fat?
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Does muscle weigh more than fat? This is a question that I hear a lot. If you think about it, the answer is easy, especially if you ask it in a different way. A better way to ask is does a pound of muscle weigh more than a pound of fat. Of course the answer is they both weigh the same.


  • How Does the Caveman Diet Work?
    [Health-and-Fitness:Popular-Diets] How does the caveman diet work? Just as important, what is the basis behind it and how exactly does it help you to lose weight. And if you decide to use it, are there any risks? The following answers these questions and more. After reading, you should hopefully have a better idea about the diet and be able to decide if it is right for you.


  • Instant Oatmeal Food Combinations
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Instant oatmeal is probably one of the greatest foods to eat on a weight loss plan. It's easy and quick to make-- for instant oatmeal, all you need is a microwave, water and a bowl. It's full of fiber and low in calories. And by using a couple of plastic bags, it's convenient to pack and carry. However, you should not limit yourself to eating the oats by itself. For greater variety and more nutrition, mix it with your favorite foods.


  • Omega 3 and Weight Loss
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Many of you may be aware of the importance omega-3 fatty acids play in lowering the risks of heart disease and high cholesterol. However few are aware of its benefits in weight loss. In fact these benefits have been documented by research in several studies from scientist worldwide.


  • How to Enjoy a Buffet and Not Totally Destroy Your Weight Loss Plan
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] You are at a buffet and you want to enjoy the delicious food. However you do not want to totally destroy your weight loss plan. Is there a way that you can do it? Yes, according to Brian Wansink, a food psychologist and author of Mindless Eating. After studying the behavior of diners at a buffet, Wansink found that there are some small changes you can make to help you eat a little less and enjoy it a whole lot more. Here they are.


  • High Protein, Low Carb Health Risks
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] High protein or low carb diets are popular because of the rapid weight loss dieters experience. This is the reason for the popularity of diets such as Atkins and South Beach. However, their are several health risks associated with the diets. The following are a list of them.


  • What is the Zone Diet?
    [Health-and-Fitness:Popular-Diets] What exactly is the Zone Diet? Developed by Barry Sears, who has a Ph.D. in biochemistry, many describe it as a high protein, low carbohydrate weight loss plan. The nutrient breakdown recommendation of the diet is 40 percent carbohydrates, 30 percent protein, and 30 percent fat (40:30:30). Some consider it a low carb diet. Technically however, since the majority of the calories come from carbohydrates, there are those who would argue that it is not.


  • 3 Uncommon Weight Loss Secrets
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Being successful with losing weight can sometimes mean just having more dieting options. With this in mind, here are 3 uncommon weight loss secrets. Inserting these into your lifestyle may be just the jolt your diet needs.


  • Eat More, Lose More
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] The title may seem to suggest the exact opposite of what you need to do to lose weight, but the fact of the matter is that many of you are not eating enough food when you decide to start dieting. In fact you eat so little, that you are probably just a hair above starvation.


  • The Best Weight Loss Plan
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Why do so many swear that quick weight loss plans are the best. Because they work. The initial weight you lose is so fast that you start to think that losing those excess pounds won't be that bad after all. The reality is that those initial pounds come from mostly water weight. After losing this, the pounds that follow will be more challenging to come by, that is if you are able to stick to this draconian diet. And because of the harshness of these plans, dieters soon fall into that cycle of yo-yo dieting that plagues many who wish to lose weight.


  • 5 Healthy Ways to Cut Fat
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Fat is everywhere in our foods. To lower it, the following list 5 healthy ways to cut fat. And relax. There is nothing that you need to do beforehand. Everything listed is something you can do on the fly. Simplicity above all else is important when adding new habits to your daily routines.


  • Just Experienced Weight Loss? Time For a Low-Fat Diet
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] You have just lost a lot of weight using the Atkins diet. Now what? Is this the type of diet you want to stay on the rest of your life? Probably not. It may have helped you shed the pounds, but continuing on a diet that for most is high in saturated fat is not the way to go.


  • More News About Weight Loss and Sodas
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Want to know why sodas make it hard for weight loss? According to the National Soft Drink Association, the total amount of sodas consumed by Americans in one year is enough for every person in the U.S. to gain 30 pounds! That is over 600 - 12 ounce cans.


  • Dropping a Jean Size
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] OK. You're not that overweight. You just want to drop a jean size-- maybe two. What can you do to lose weight that will not require you to totally rearrange your life or spend hours in the gym? Even though it is better to plan and write out your weight loss plan, the following are 3 things that you can do to get the process quickly on its way.


  • 3 Dangerous Weight Loss Practices
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] The frustration of being overweight can wear on your mind and may tempt you to try dangerous weight loss methods. Although this pressure to lose weight may be overwhelming at times, you should always keep the safety of your health first in mind. As such, the following list 3 harmful methods that dieters sometimes use to initiate quick weight loss.


  • Vegetable Juice May Jump-Start Weight Loss
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Here's another nugget that you can add to your weight loss grab bag. Vegetable juice may help with your weight loss, according to a new study just out.


  • Foods For a Flat Stomach
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] I'm always amused when I see people in the gym killing themselves month in and month out with ab exercises believing that if they do enough of them, they'll get a flat stomach. Sorry if that sounds condescending, but you have to realize that no amount of exercising alone is going to allow you to develop great looking abs. Yes, the exercises are strengthening and toning them, but until you remove those layers of fat, you will be exercising in vain.


  • Can Grapefruit Really Help With Weight Loss?
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Consuming grapefruits to help with weight loss has been around since the 1930's. Even now many people swear by them as a dieting aide. The question though is can the fruit really help you to lose weight or is it just another dieting myth? The answer to that question is yes and here's why.


  • Rapid Weight Loss With Spicy Foods?
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Can you experience rapid weight loss with spicy foods? You bet and best of all, using this new weapon in your arsenal to fight fat doesn't require you to spend more time in the gym.


  • 3 Prevalent Problems With Weight Loss Products
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Weight loss products offer great benefits in your battle to lose those extra pounds hanging on your waist. Used wisely, they can help speed up the loss and make the overall process much more bearable. However, there are three problems that you should keep in mind when using these aides. Learning about this now may save you from wasted time and effort, as well as from the future frustration that will surely follow.


  • Weight Loss and the Focused and Unfocused Dieter
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] You tell yourself that you are totally committed to weight loss, but are you really? You can answer that question by asking yourself are you a focused or unfocused dieter. What's the difference between the two and why should it matter? Simply put, knowing this answer could be the difference between you quickly losing weight or your continued struggle to lose even a pound.


  • Weight Loss - Fat Or Muscle?
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] When you are overweight, any weight loss may be a cause for celebration. After all , you are that much closer to reaching your goals. However if you were to take a step back and look at the type of weight you are losing, you may be surprised to find that this is not the case. The reason that you should be concerned about this is because your primary weight loss should come from fat, not muscle.


  • 5 Weight Loss Blunders That Keep You Fat
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Here's 5 weight loss blunders that keep even the most strong willed from reaching their goals. Even though some of these blunders are well known, they are worth mentioning again, and yes again, because they can be at times easily overlooked. To keep them in the forefront of your mind, it is always helpful as a reminder to see them in writing, since they are things you can immediately put into practice.


  • Weight Loss - Move Your Body!
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] It's a no-brainer that you need to diet to lose weight. However, because of your aversion to physical activity, some of you think that dieting alone will be enough. Not only are you missing out on faster weight loss, but also the unseen benefits that come with it as well.


  • Belly Fat - The Importance of Weight Loss
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Many of you want to lose belly fat simply because you believe that it will help you look better. However weight loss around your stomach alone is far more important then just for the sake of appearance. Having a large waistline carries with it many dangers, including heart disease, diabetes, stroke, and some types of cancer, which makes it even more imperative that you start losing weight.


  • Healthy Foods For Weight Loss
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] The key to any decent weight loss diet is going to be the choice of healthy foods. When dieting, it helps to have a wide selection of these foods. Many people do not like to eat the same types of food over and over. Like with many other things we prefer variety.


  • How to Get a Flat Tummy
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] A Flat Tummy. We see them on stars or models when they go topless or wear a mid drift. We can't help but to notice and admire them. How did they get them? More amazingly, you see some actress several months after her pregnancy and her stomach is pristine. If you want to know how to get your stomach looking like theirs, then read on. And regardless of what you been told in the past, you can get one too.


  • An Old Age Motivation For Weight Loss
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] We can all use more facts as motivation to lose weight. In fact this is one case in dieting where more is better. So to add to your, hopefully, ever growing list of reasons to lose weight, here's another, especially if you enjoy moving.


  • Drinking and Eating - Which is More Important For Weight Loss?
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] To drive in its importance, we are constantly being reminded about the great value of eating healthy foods when it comes to weight loss. This means of course staying away from fatten laden foods and simple carbohydrates, both of which can quickly cause your waistline to grow.


  • Getting Pass Weight Loss Plateaus
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] There's nothing worse than hitting a weight loss plateau. Despite continuing to work out, you just can't seem to lose anymore weight. Take heart. You're about to learn two fantastic methods to get you over the hump and back on the road to consistent weight loss.


  • A Quick Weight Loss Tip For Busy People
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Your life is going a million miles an hour, so getting to the gym as often as you would like, if at all, is not in the cards. Well, this weight loss tip for busy people like yourself will have you steadily burning fat everyday of the week. Take a quick minute to read about this simple yet effective method.


  • How to Drop a Jean Size in a Week
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] I would ask you if you would like to drop a jean size in a week, but who wouldn't. Anyway, being a size smaller is easier than you think and it doesn't require you running yourself ragged or fasting for days. To learn how, read on.


  • Natural Appetite Suppressant
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Tired of hunger derailing your diet? Would you like a natural appetite suppressant to help you get over that hump? Then get ready to learn about the number one food that fills you up plus is low in calories.


  • Low Impact Weight Loss Exercises
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] You want to lose weight, but for whatever reason, you want to or only can perform low impact exercises. No problem. The following are three exercises that are easy on the joints, as well as easy to perform and great for all ages.


  • Weight Loss, Belly Fat, and Your Lungs
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] If you are the type of person that needs a stick to get you to lose weight, well here's a big one. A study in France showed that abdominal obesity impairs breathing along with damaging the heart. More simply stated: Belly fat hurts your lungs.


  • Weight Loss Maintenance
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Now that you have lost those pounds, weight loss maintenance should be on your mind. And since I am sure that you do not want to be part of that depressing statistic that gains the weight back, maintenance should be taken with the same importance as losing weight.


  • 10 More Weight Loss Myths
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Weight loss myths not only keep you from losing inches from around your waist, they also take from you something that you can't get back: time. That being said, the following are some of the most common myths held, unfortunately, by far too may dieters.


  • Joyfully Living With Your Diet
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] People believe their eating sins must be paid with a penance. Torture by exercise and diet are the only alms that your conscience will accept at the altar of the perfect body.


  • The 4 Major Functions of Fat
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Fat is the Rodney Dangerfield of nutrients: It doesn't get any respect. The next time you are in a store just notice the amount of products you see with the labels low-fat or no-fat. It is enough to make you think that you need to avoid it all together.


  • Cold Water and Weight Loss - It's All in the Numbers
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] You been told that drinking cold water helps to burn calories, but how much? And even if you do lose weight, is it really worth the effort? To better answer these questions, let's first establish a understanding of why exactly water burns calories.


  • Weight Loss Mistakes
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] If you did everything right on your weigh loss program, you would have no problem reaching your diet goals. But since most dieters do not stick to their diet, the body of your dreams, stays just that: dreams. The reason: mistakes.


  • Personal Training and Weight Loss
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Personal training is a great option for those who dread going about the weight loss process alone. Some of the benefits that the trainers offer are motivation when you are not at your best and help in keeping you on track to lose those unsightly inches around your waist. They are also there to insure that you are getting the most out of every workout.


  • What the Heck Are Antioxidants?
    [Health-and-Fitness:Nutrition] So what the heck are antioxidants and why should you care? First imagine yourself at fifty but with skin as radiant as women much younger. How is that possible? You think, it must be genetics. Well believe it or not, just by making sure that you get enough antioxidants into your bloodstream, that could be you.


  • Weight Lifting - Not Just For the Guys
    [Health-and-Fitness:Build-Muscle] Weight lifting was once the bastion of only the most hardcore bodybuilders. Now it has gone mainstream with women, baby boomers and seniors all getting into the act, and for good reasons too.


  • What So Marvelous About Vitamins?
    [Health-and-Fitness:Nutrition] In back of your mind you know that vitamins are important, but you're not exactly sure why. You know this if for no other reason than because of the hoards of pills on your grocer's shelves or the commercials on TV trying to convince you of their incredible capacity to improve your health, all done with the aim to persuade you to buy.


  • Walking Your Way to Total Fitness
    [Health-and-Fitness:Exercise] Walking has always been an excellent way to maintain total fitness. And now there's even more proof. A new study finds that by walking 100 steps a minute you can keep in shape. What this means is that intensity is everything.


  • Losing Weight - The Carrot Or the Stick?
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] I like using the carrot metaphor to motivate people to lose weight. I do this by reminding you guys of the tone and tight beach body that you could have, or how you will feel looking at that reflection of the fantastic physique staring back at you in the mirror. An since sex sells, it's also helpful to mention the flattering feeling you get from heads turning as you walk down the street.


  • Losing Water Weight With Extraordinary Flavor
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] One thing that keeps many of you from starting or sticking to your diet is the belief that you will have to give up taste. True. If salt is your favorite spice, then you might be hesitant to start. But with the following tips on adding flavor to your food, you may forget salt ever existed and start living a healthy low-sodium lifestyle.


  • Weight Loss - Who's Your Body Idol?
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Motivation plays a big part in weight loss. So having a body idol as inspiration can help to encourage you over the rough spots in your program. This is because images have been shown to have stronger psychological effects than just words alone.


  • The 4 Top Supplements to Build Strong Lean Muscles
    [Health-and-Fitness:Supplements] Burning off fat is the main objective of most diet programs, but many of you also want to gain strong lean muscles. No one wants to go around looking like the Pillsbury dough boy.


  • How a Pen Or Pencil Can Double Your Weight Loss
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Wishing for a way to double your weight loss? Well that wish has been answered according to a study from the Kaiser Permanente's Center for Health Research.


  • Going Vegetarian to Lose That Weight
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] I am sure that some of you guys are considering vegetarianism as a means to lose weight. And it is not surprising since, in addition to weight loss, studies have shown that the diet is also good for your heart and may help to prevent certain types of cancers.


  • How to Forever Put a Stop to Diet-Busting Triggers
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] ave you ever thought along these lines? "This time it's going to be different. This time when I start my diet, I'm going to stay on it and nothing is going to get in my way."


  • Develop Muscle to Lose Weight and Flabby Underarms
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] When most people diet to lose weight, they end up losing muscle as well. This is why that even though their end result may be a slimmer body, their overall body mass looks soft instead of firm and lean. If you fall into this category, as well as focusing on losing fat, you are going to need to focus on retaining and developing muscle. This is the only way that you are going to lose those flabby underarms.


  • Give Your Diet a Charge With the Incredible Taste of Turkey Breast
    [Health-and-Fitness:Nutrition] If you're like many dieters, most of your meals consists of tuna, chicken breast and perhaps some other type of fish. Even though healthy and nutritious, eating these staples can become old quickly.


  • Fiber - Fat's Kryptonite
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] If fat were Superman, than its kryptonite would be fiber. For cellulite to form on your body, your digestive process needs to convert food into fat. And despite your digestive system's best efforts, it cannot digest fiber. If you haven't guessed it already, this means your body has nothing to store.


  • Fight After-Meal Hunger With This One Simple Addition
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Do you get hungry soon after you eat? Do you recall how much meat was in the meal? If you answered none or very little, then you probably will want to add some to your meal. Why?


  • Energize Your Weight Loss With the Incredible Power of Complex Carbohydrates
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Does your weight loss seem as though it's taking forever, despite all the time you spend on the treadmill? It's as though that stubborn fat has a vise-grip on your body and just will not let go. Well it's time to break its hold on your body and the easiest way to do that is by providing your body with foods that feed on fat. What are these foods that feed on fat the way Amy Winehouse feeds on hysteria? Quite simply, complex carbohydrates.


  • Broccoli - A Genetic Defense Against Diabetes?
    [Health-and-Fitness:Diabetes] As many of you may know by now, a dramatic increase in blood sugar triggers your body to store fat. Not only does this lead to weight gain, but it also increases your chances of being diagnosed with diabetes.


  • Energize Your Mornings and Your Weight Loss With the Awesome Power of Oatmeal
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] You're rushing to get to work and breakfast is the furthest thing from your mind. But you know a good breakfast is an important part of any weight loss regimen. So you wonder what's quick to make and high in nutrition? Your answer: oatmeal.


  • Detox Your Way to Weight Loss and Much More
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Why detox for weight loss? Think back over the years to all the various types of foods you have eaten. Now think about all the ingredients in those foods, especially the ingredients that are artificial and chemical in nature. Now think about the air you breathe: the aerosols, the exhaust fumes, the stale indoor air that goes into your lungs - all of which are full of impurities that your body has to deal with.


  • A Travel Guide For Weight Loss
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] In a good travel guide, you find valuable information to make your trip inexpensive and stress free in addition to being memorable. When it comes to weight loss, you can learn a thing or two from a good travel guide.


  • How to Exercise All Day and Not Get Tired
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] There's also another activity that we perform each day that also requires the burning of fat even though most of us are typically unaware of this fact. What is that activity? Hold on to your horses.


  • Fuel Your Fat Burning Furnace With Hand Weights
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] If you've ever had the opportunity to feed a blazing furnace, then you know it burns fuel quickly. Turning your body into a furnace is equally the best way to burn fuel, the fuel of course being fat. In reality though, the furnace is not your whole body, but, more specifically, your lean hard muscles.


  • Thousands of Diets Or the Phenomenal Power of Juicing
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] When it comes to losing weight, the truth is that any healthy diet will work. The biggest challenge in choosing one is finding a diet that you are willing to stick with-- the lack of taste being the main cause of this reluctance. Sound familiar?


  • Improve Your Health - Give Your Innards a Good Scrubbin'
    [Health-and-Fitness:Detoxification] As an active kid, you climbed trees, played in the sand, and ran around like there was no tomorrow, all the while sweating up a storm and becoming gritty and grimy in the process. To scrub away all that day's grit and grime, your folks made you take a bath at night before you were ever allowed to touch the covers of your bed. Your parents of course knew the value of a nice hot bath, even if you always fought against them.


  • Water - Nature's Natural Industrial Strength Cleanser
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] And just as the earth needs water to cleanse itself, so do we humans. And this is especially true if you're losing weight. During weight loss, your body is breaking down fat cells as well as it's many other standard things. To do this effectively your body needs water.


  • Marathoning Your Way to Phenomenal Weight Loss
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] The sprinter in the story is a runner who runs at top speed to reach his or her destination. At the beginning, they are full of incredible zest and energy. At the rate they are going, winning in the game of life seems certain... then they tire.


  • How to Burn Body Fat
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Just about everyone today is own a diet. Tragically, they are basing their diet on myths about how to burn body fat. Instead of losing weight, they end up gaining more. To make sure that you don't fall into this group, you need to know what these myths are.


  • Green Tea, Weight Loss and Your Heart
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] When you increase the oxidation or burning of fat, you're able to lose weight more quickly. Green tea extract that are high in catechins have been shown to reduce body fat. A side benefit of this is also a reduction to the risk of cardiovascular disease.


  • Green Tea - Burning Fat and Weight Maintenance
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Getting or burning the weight off is just one part of the equation. Maintenance or keeping it off is the other. Just like you need a method to burn fat off your body, to keep it off, you must have a proven method to use as well.


  • Must Do Tips to Burn Fat Fast
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] If you're serious about losing weight, these are the must do tips to burn fat fast. If you follow these steps, you are guaranteed to lose weight.


  • Using CLA to Decrease Body Fat
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] We all have heard by now how trans fats are bad for us. But CLA which is a type of transfat, provides a health benefit that is opposite to the nature of most fats. By adding CLA to your diet, you can actually decrease body fat and increase lean tissue.


  • Burn Fat Fast With Laughing
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] One of the main ways that we get emotional satisfaction is by eating. To burn fat fast so that you can get the body you dream about, you need to find different means of getting emotional satisfaction other than by food.


  • Burn Fat Fast With Green Tea and Exercise
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] As many of you know by now, green tea increases your body ability to burn fat. More precisely, it increases the oxidation of lipid metabolism. Many of the studies that confirm this are perform on subjects who did not make any changes to their diet and physical activity.


  • Using Negative Foods to Burn Fat
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Using negative foods to burn fat is a no brainer. But, what are negative foods you ask? Well, believe it or not, these are foods that require more energy to digest than they supply to your body.


  • How to Lose Weight - Healthy Ways
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] How to lose weight, especially with healthy ways, can be daunting at times. You see infomercials with products that promise to get your weight off quickly and easily.


  • How to Lose Water Weight Strategy
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Excess water weight can be a big problem, especially for women. It gives the appearance of the Pillsbury dough boy and takes away from the smoothness of your skin.


  • What is the Fastest Way to Burn Off Visceral Fat?
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Wanting to know what is the fastest way to burn off visceral fat is probably the most important question when it comes to burning fat. Because of it's high correlation with heart disease, stroke, diabetes and hypertension, excess visceral fat is an major concern among health professionals.


  • Green Tea And Weight Loss
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Green tea, know for its antioxidant properties, has been receiving a lot of attention as a weight loss agent. Studies found that with the addition of green tea, the oxidation, i.e. burning, of fat increases. Even though caffeine is found in green tea and is a well know aide in increasing fat burning, the study found that participants experienced oxidation of fat beyond which could be attributed to caffeine alone.


  • Yet Another - How to Lose 10 Pounds in a Week
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] A lot of you guys don't believe that it's possible to lose 10 pounds in a week. It is possible if you have the time and are willing to put in the effort that is necessary to get there. Whats more, here are the numbers that back it up.


  • Weight Loss - 10 Unusual Weight Loss Inventions
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] So you think that you've tried every weight loss method out there. How about a rubber balloon in your stomach. Or if that isn't your cup of tea how about a weight reduction belt. These unusual weight loss methods are not something I just made up, but are patents issued by the US Patent Office.


  • Weight Loss and NLP - It's All in Your Mind
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Let's face it. Losing weight is hard for most of you guys. You could even say that it's similar to being in sales and having to make call calls. Call calls aren't pleasant for most people, but those who are successful in this type of sales environment are the ones who make themselves do what they don't want to do. The same can be said of weight loss. Weight loss isn't necessarily pleasant, but those who lose weight are the ones who do what they don't want to do. But what if you could make yourself like losing weight.


  • Weight Loss - Sleep Away Your Fat
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] For those of you who have been curious about how sleep effects your weigh loss process, here's some interesting information. According to a recent report published in the Journal Sleep, those who slept 6 hours or less and 9 hours or more put on more weight then those who slept 7 to 8 hours. Yet another reason to get sufficient sleep.


  • Why Your Tummy Gets Fat
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Have you ever wondered why so much fat likes to congregate around your tummy? Why not the arms or legs? Sure they get their share, but not like your middle section.


  • Weight Loss - Not Enough Time in the Day?
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Does this sound like you? Up by 4:30 AM. Get the kids ready for school. Meeting with the boss at eight and you can't be late. Errands to run in the evening. Come home and cook dinner. Get the kids ready for bed and get ready to repeat the whole process again for tomorrow.


  • Weight Loss - Afraid Of Weights
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Weight lifting is an excellent activity to engage in to speed up your weight loss process. By lifting, you increase your metabolism, build muscle and strength, and bring out definition in your body. Weight lifting is the total package when it comes to burning fat.


  • Weight Loss - Triggers
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] When people hear the word trigger, a whole host of images pop into their mind. Depending upon your background, it could be anything from a hammer that sends a bullet racing from a gun and for you super geeks out there, it could be an event executing a piece of code.


  • Weight Loss - It's Just a Matter of Time
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Weight loss is not about just learning what to eat or what type of exercise to perform. It's also about managing your time. Once you learn how to organize each hour of your day, losing the weight and keeping it off will be a piece of cake. Ah, sorry about that.


  • The Wishy Washy Weight Loss Plan
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] You're cleaning out some old things and you find some pictures of yourself taken a couple of years earlier. Wow, you think to yourself, I looked really great back then.


  • 10 Step Plan for Screwing Up Your Weight Loss
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] That got me to thinking. How could you really screw up your weight loss program? No, it's not something you would want to do, but if you had a list -- and oh how we love our lists-- on how to truly screw it up, maybe a little reverse psychology would take place.


  • Psst, Want to Burn Fat Fast?
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Hey you. Yeah you. Do you want to burn fat fast? I bet you've like to do it without having to exercise or having to change your diet. Well let me let you in on a well kept secret.


  • Fitness Health Exercise Article
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] This is a fitness health exercise article that details some fundamental facts about the wonders of exercise. Why Wonders? Well, unless you've been living in a cave, you've heard by now how exercise can increase your vitality, lower your risk of heart disease and other chronic ailments in addition to burning unwanted fat.


  • Low Fat Diet Guidelines
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] There are some basic low fat diet guidelines that you need to adhere to that will make the diet as safe and effective as possible. By adhering to these guidelines, you help yourself to increase the odds that you'll stick with the diet and that it will produce results.


  • Fat Metabolism Factors
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] There are several fat metabolism factors that your body goes through to lose weight. This is a standard process your body must go through if it is to metabolize or burn fat. A simple understanding of these factors can aide you in your decision making about your diet and exercise program.


  • Exercises For Obesity
    [Health-and-Fitness:Obesity] Because of the excessive mass on their bodies, the following are some exercises for obesity to help those who have a concern about starting an exercise program. With these, you can start to increase your bodies metabolism without putting undue stress on your joints.


  • Fat Burning Diet Pills
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Fat burning diet pills are the choice for many as an aide for burning fat. They are looked upon as a way to quickly loose weight especially when conventional dieting methods don't seem to work.


  • Body Fat Index Calculator
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] A body fat index calculator is used to determine your body fat percentage. The percentage is a good indicator of body composition and health in most cases.


  • Ways To Burn Maximum Fat
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] There's several ways to burn maximum fat, each targeting specific ways in which your body burns fat. Make use of them and you'll be well on your way to reaching your fitness goals.


  • Best Cardio Exercise to Fat Burn
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] What are the best cardio exercise to burn fat? Well, the first criteria that you should look for is finding something you like to do. If you don't like doing it, chances are you may not stick with it.


  • Burn Fat On Tummy
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] We all want to burn fat on our tummy. In fact, if we had a choice, most of us would say that this is the first place that we would like to lose weight.


  • Burn Fat - Find a Buddy
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Having a buddy to workout with is a great way to keep you both motivated to burn fat. You already share the same concerns, so if anyone understands what you're going through, it's going to be your buddy.


  • Snack Foods That Burn Fat
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] We all like snack foods. It's like getting a reward for no special reason. But, wouldn't it be great though if this reward also was great at burning fat?


  • Weight Loss and Low Cholesterol Meds
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] The main purpose of the drug is to lower cholesterol since high cholesterol has been linked with heart disease. However, the controversy stems from a finding that says that there was no evidence that those in the low risk category taking the drug to lower their cholesterol would gain protection from getting heart disease.


  • Speeding Up Your Metabolism - Three Simple Tips
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Increasing your metabolism is the key to burning off those unwanted inches. Of course, as we start to look more like our parents, our metabolism slows down.


  • Fat Burning for Women
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] When it comes to fat burning many women just do aerobics or get on the treadmill and call it a day. Even though this is a good start, you need to take it a step further.


  • Get Fit Burn Fat
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Getting fit promotes the quickest way for you to burn fat. Yes, changing your diet is an essential part of your weight loss program. However, getting fit will help you get there faster.


  • Fat Burning Exercises - 7 Great Choices
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Exercise represents one of the quickest ways to start burning fat. By spending as little as 20 minutes every other day, you can start to see a difference in your waistline. It's efficient, strengthens your body, helps to clear your mind, and it's fun too.


  • How to Read Food Labels
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] As part of any weight loss program, it's important to know how to read food labels. Your understanding of the labels could be the difference between you burning 2 pounds of fat or 20.


  • Low Carb Diets - How to Keep it Healthy
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Popular low carb diets like Atkins and South Beach have been touted as an easy way to lose weight. By restricting your carb intake, they promise quick results with minimal effort.


  • Fat Burning 10 Top Diet and Fitness Program Review
    [Shopping-and-Product-Reviews] There are a lot of diets on the market that will work for you. The problem is choosing the one that best suits your lifestyle and needs.


  • Fat Burning - Trans Fat Dilemma
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] It was announced recently that Target's Archer Farm brand is going trans-fat free with their private label foods and another U.S. city, Boston, MA, took its first step toward banning the substance also. By taking these actions, they join a long list of companies and cities taking a stand against this artery-clogging menace.


  • Belly Fat - Making an Immediate Impact
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Belly fat is an unfortunate side effect of a prosperous society in addition to bad eating habits. Ridding yourself of it is not an overnight process, but there are things that you can do immediately to bring it down and start you on your way to a more permanent solution.


  • Burn Fat Building Muscle
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] An underutilized ally in burning fat is the initiation of muscle building. Since muscles burn more calories than the necessary adipose tissue, i.e. fat, on your body, by building muscle you create more calorie consuming lean mass.


  • Fat Burning For Kids
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Kids as well as adults suffer from excess pounds and they too need to burn off fat. In fact, 1 out of 3 kids and teens between the ages of 2 and 19 are overweight or obese, a statistic that should scream out to us that they need our help.


  • Fat Burning - Carbs, Proteins and Fats
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] How efficiently we burn fat depends on our energy sources, namely our carbohydrates, protein and and yes, fats. These sources determine your overall body function and, as such, play the single most important role in fat burning.


  • Burning Fat - Assessing Your Health Risk with BMI
    [Health-and-Fitness:Exercise] Body weight can be a good indication of your health and, as such, there are a number of measurements based on it to asses your physical condition. Once such measurement is Basal Mass Index or BMI.


  • How To Lose 10 Pounds in Week
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Want to lose 10 pounds in a week? Want the weight loss to be more than just water weight? Would you like for it to be healthy as well?


  • How to Burn Fat Quickly and Easily
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] We all want to know how to burn fat quickly and easily. A helpful overlooked fact is that every time you eat a thermic effect occurs in your body. The secret behind this effect is that fat must be used as an energy source to consume, digest and absorb food.


  • Basal Metabolic Rate - How Much Energy Do You Need?
    [Health-and-Fitness:Exercise] Each moment of your life, you expend energy no matter what you're doing. Even something as simple as taking a breath or picking up a feather requires energy.


  • Total Daily Energy Expenditure - Getting Through the Day
    [Health-and-Fitness:Exercise] We require energy to complete even the most elementary of task and each day we expend a certain amount of it. The total amount of energy is know as your total daily energy expenditure (TDEE).


  • Target Heart Rate for Burning Fat
    [Health-and-Fitness:Exercise] Because of the way your body uses energy, working out at a certain heart rate allows you to burn fat faster. As a result, dieters need to get their heart rate to stay in this zone so that they can burn fat as quickly as possible.


  • Fat Burning - The Basics
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] To be good at anything, you've got to know the basics. So it's not much of a stretch on the imagination to say that if you want to burn fat, you've got to at least know the basics on how to go about doing it.


  • Burning Fat - The Benefits of Water
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] A simple yet overlooked aide in burning fat is drinking water. Your body is up to 60% water and as a result we need to make sure that it is adequately supplied.


  • Burning Fat - Lifestyle and Beliefs
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] When we go on a diet, most view it as a 1, 2, or 3 month ordeal. Once you start viewing fat burning as a lifestyle change and not something that you're going to do for around 3 months, your chances for success will sky rocket.


  • Burning Fat - Setting Fitness Goals
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Setting fitness goals is paramount if you want to burn fat quickly. After all, you can't reach your destination if you don't know where you're going.




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