Archive for 2012
Should Sugar Be Regulated?
PACIFIC STANDARD - 12.27.12 by Elizabeth Weil
Almost three million people have watched “Sugar: The Bitter Truth.” Alec Baldwin publicly lost 30 pounds by following Lustig’s rules and giving up toxic foods...
Among the least likely viral megahits.
Tag :
nutrition,
weight loss
Study Shows Aerobics Best Method for Weight Loss, But...
I kinda think we knew this, but...
ScienceDaily - Dec. 15, 2012
Aerobic training is the best mode of exercise for burning fat, according to Duke researchers who compared aerobic training, resistance training, and a combination of the two.
The study,.
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exercise,
weight loss
Holiday Eating Doesn't Have to Ruin Your Fitness Goals
Anyone who's making progress on their fitness goals might well feel a bit of terror at the approaching pig-out holiday season. You may feel like a wildebeest swimming across a croc infested river, nostrils flared and eyes bulging. Here are.
How to Maintain Your Ideal Weight
If you've followed my weight loss, my efforts to get and stay lean and hard (I won't call it a "journey;" nothing should be called a "journey" that isn't a literal "journey," OK?) and haven't just arrived at today's entry, you'll know that I started.
Taking Control of Your Life Through Diet and Exercise
If you know your Greek mythology, you're familiar with the story of Sisyphus, who was a king consigned as punishment to the futile business of pushing a boulder to the top of a hill, only to watch it roll back down to the bottom again, over and over.
Tag :
fitness
Take Control of What Goes In Your Mouth
I'm going to go out on a limb and say, unequivocally, that you cannot - repeat, cannot - lose weight and get lean and hard, or stay lean and hard, without taking control of what goes in your mouth. Exercise alone won't do it. Fad diets won't do it. The.
How'd You Do This Halloween?
Halloween is history, but Thanksgiving and Christmas are coming up, so let's consider how we've done so far. Don't want to think about it? Alright, here are some neat Halloween facts to entertain you...
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nutrition
Why Fad Diets are Destined to FAIL
Why do fad diets fail? Why do things fall when you drop them? These two phenomena are almost as common, and happen to be based on straightforward laws of physics that control the workings of the universe we live in. There's a hypothesis in.
How to Push Through to your Goal
As anyone who has pursued a challenging goal can tell you, getting through to the end is sometimes the most difficult part. Maybe more than sometimes. Maybe always. They say every journey begins with a single step. I guess every journey must also end.
Tag :
motivation
How to Avoid Hurting Yourself in the Gym
Almost nothing will knock your exercise routine out of commission like an injury. If you hate going to the gym, that can seem like a blessing: Finally, a good excuse not to go! But if you like your exercise or count it as important to your quality.
Why It's So Hard to Lose That Last 10 or 15 Pounds
This is what my own experience tells me, not what you'll often read on the web. What are the typical reasons given for why losing the last 10 or 15 pounds seems so hard to do?
I've read the following:
1. Your metabolism slows down as you lose weight.
Is What You Know About Fitness All Wrong?
No one likes to be wrong. That's why it's so difficult even to consider the possibility of it. There's the old joke about the guy who says, "I made a mistake once. I thought I made a mistake, but I was wrong." For some of us it's not only difficult to.
Wasting Money on Ineffective Weight Loss Products
How much filthy lucre have you spent so far this year on weight-loss products? It's difficult even to estimate, isn't it? Everything from the gym membership that you rarely use, to the Lean Cuisine frozen dinners, to the pills and supplements, to the.
Health Tip: Fill Up on Taste, not Calories
Losing weight doesn't have to be about enduring tasteless foods. Frankly, the thought of having a carrot or celery stick as a snack leaves me shuddering in revulsion. What's the point? I might as well try to fill up on cardboard. No, I eat a limited.
Learning How to Maintain a Healthy Body
Photo: Interdietplace.com
I never thought I'd be hearing these words, but I'm hearing them now: You don't need to lose any more weight.
It's nice to hear it, and I know I'm getting very close to my goal. So there's that. But I believe I have just.
Tag :
diet,
maintaining
Are Certain Foods Addictive?
(Photo: Sugar Shock Blog)
Everyone knows that nicotine from cigarettes is addictive. Not only that, it'll destroy your health and possibly kill you. People who have never used them stay away, and current users are either trying to quit or seriously.
Tag :
nutrition
Letting Go of Fitness Myths
It isn't always fun to learn that something you've heard over and over and accepted as true is actually false. On the other hand, it can be liberating. True information is usually helpful, and so we shouldn't be afraid to have our cherished health.
10 Things it's Easier to Do When You've Lost Weight
File this under motivation. Here's a list of ten things it's so much easier to do when you're thin:
1. Walk around
2. Fit in seats. Airline seats, movie seats, restaurant seats, classroom seats, all kinds of seats.
3. Dance
4. Run
5. Take the stairs
6..
Tag :
motivation
Emotional Fitness
Here's an interesting thought: It doesn't seem strange when someone attempts to change their level of physical fitness through diet and exercise, but how many people do you know who are attempting to develop their emotional fitness? I mean in a systematic.
Watch Out for Unhealthy Health Foods
Who can forget the fat-free yogurt on Seinfeld that turned out to be fat-full? Everyone was scarfing it down and feeling good, thinking they were enjoying a healthy treat, only to find that they were all mysteriously putting on major poundage.
The.
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nutrition
Running or Walking: Which is Best?
(Photo: Healthy Choices Daily) When I was about 15, I started running. I mean I ran as a child, playing sports and that sort of thing, but I took up running as a form of exercise. Sadly though, I took up smoking just a year or so later, to look cool.
Pack in the Nutrients, not the Calories
"According to the Dietary Guidelines for Americans 2005, nutrient-dense foods are those foods that provide substantial amounts of vitamins and minerals and relatively few calories" (Wikipedia).
The way I think about food has changed over the past.
Curing Sleep Apnea
I'll begin by saying that not all sleep apnea is caused by obesity. But since mine was, it only makes sense that I could cure it by reversing the cause.
As I steadily gained weight over the years, I started to snore, and snore worse and worse, to.
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health,
sleep apnea
Why Most Diets Fail
The word "diet" is not bad, per se, but its typical meaning relates to something bad: That is, when it refers to an eating plan that, by its very nature, is doomed to failure. Anyone who has struggled with weight issues knows that most diets fail. Like.
Replacing fast carbs with slow carbs
The key to weight loss is not as simple as eating less. If it were that simple, no one would ever be overweight.
Yes, it's true that IF you eat fewer calories than you are burning, you WILL lose weight. The problem is with the IF. It's not easy, and.
How I Cured Myself
I hate those stupid web adds that promise to do everything from get rid of belly fat to save you thousands on car insurance if you will follow "this one simple rule." Doing those things is rarely accomplished with a simple rule. If they were then no.
Fit Over 50
Here's an interesting question you might ask yourself: What percentage of people my age are physically fit? (I'm defining "fit" as being lean and hard from regular exercise and healthy eating.)
If you're in your 20s, you might think that number would.
Tag :
fitness,
motivation
Taking Breaks from Your Workouts - How Long and How Often?
Is it ever advisable to take a break from my regular workout routine? Will I lose all my gains if I miss a day? How do I know if I need a break? And how long should a break be?
These are all great questions. I've actually taken short breaks by necessity.
Pictures of unhealthy foods can increase cravings
File this under "Tell me something I don't already know."
Studies are confirming what advertisers have long since figured out and you already suspect. Looking at photos of unhealthy foods like sweets and fatty treats makes it harder to resist indulging..
Tag :
nutrition
Can I still lose weight if I cheat on my diet?
Photo credit: The Holy Grail
The answer is a definite YES!
As long as you are on a weight reduction plan, you are going to face the temptation to cheat. The reason is simple: To lose weight you have to burn more calories than you're taking in, and.
No carb, low carb or slow carb?
Believe it or not, there are still people who think the Atkins diet (and its numerous imitators) are worth trying. The no-carb fad is over, my friends. Consider these insights from Cynthia Sass, MPH, RD, writing for Shape:
Many of my clients send.
Turning Back Your Biological Age
How old are you? It's a simple question, right? Not really.
It's not as simple as you might think to answer this question. Most of us just count the number of years that have passed since the date on our birth certificates. By that measure I am 52..
What's my ideal weight?
I don't know yet. I've lost 111 pounds as of yesterday. I weighed 192.2 when I stepped on the scale in the AM. When should I stop losing and start maintaining? I do have an idea about that but I'm not yet certain, simply because I'm not going by a.
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