Things like this happen everyday because people so desperately want to believe that weight loss is about the number on the scale and that it’s quick and easy.  It’s not about the scale, or quick or easy.  And it’s despicable that companies like this take advantage of people this way. FTC sues Ariz. company over [...]

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Usually when I am writing about fad diets or celebrity diets it is to slam the insanity in them.  The team at Shine did that quite well, but they also pointed out some of the benefits that are the basis of fad diets.  It’s good info! The Cooler Cleanse Salma Hayek is singing the praises [...]

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I get so frustrated sometimes, because it really is easy to avoid food that is bad for me.  All I have to do is read the label.  But like others, it’s easy for me to get pulled in by trigger words that make me think that this food will be just fine, and the label [...]

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The following research was released this week. THURSDAY, July 8 (HealthDay News) — A brain enzyme that appears to boost body heat in order to burn off excess calories from a high-fat meal has been identified, but because the research was performed in mice, it might not apply to humans. Learning more about how this [...]

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America’s Best & Worst “Health” Drinks  By David Zinczenko, with Matt Goulding – Posted on Mon, May 24, 2010, 12:01 pm PDT Whoever invented bottled water was a genius. Think about it: They took a widely available and nearly free commodity, packaged it nice and pretty, and sold it for hundreds of times more than [...]

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Now that my food plan includes snacks, I have been trying to find healthy snack type foods that I can throw into my backpack and have available at the right time of the day.  I have looked at a bunch of different snack bars in the health stores… some good, some bad.  But I ran [...]

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OK…usually when I am writing about something I am mad about it’s because I have run across some insane diet plan and I just need to vent about the insanity. Just as a reminder, I am not doing this because I am a nutritionist, a diet expert or a medical professional but because these are [...]

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I ran across this website today and I thought I was going to try to crawl through the computer and strangle somebody.  Normally when I look at a diet I really am comparing it to what I am currently doing and trying to decide if I may get better results. In this case it was [...]

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I was talking to my mother today about my blog and she was talking about the importance of eating complex carbs versus simple carbs and avoiding sugars.  As she was talking I realized I knew, in general, what she meant, but not in detail.  Of course I can look for sugar on the label and [...]

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I think I am still stuck on the issue about labeling I started yesterday.  I saw a weight loss commercial last night, perhaps I should stop watching TV, and all that stood out to me were the words at the bottom in print so tiny you practically need a particle accelerator to see them, “Results [...]

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