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Using a Mnemonic Acronym in Healthy Weight Loss

A mnemonic acronym helps people remember helpful facts that are easy to forget without a convenient prompt. Elementary school students know that HOMES is an easy way to recall Huron,Ontario, Michigan, Erie, and Superior as the Great Lakes. A treatment for sprain is rest, ice, compression and elevation (RICE), and cryptologists find special meaning in SENORITA. Taking the advice of psychologists to use acronyms as gentle reminders, you can use WEIGHT LOSS to keep your healthy weight loss plan on track.

December 29, 2013

Lose Weight This Christmas With These Six Healthy Foods!

Christmas is a time for celebration and with celebration comes a lot of food. If you’re looking to keep the waistline trim during winter, you’ll want to take a look at these healthy foods. Eat these and you’ll come out of winter looking trim and ready for summer.

December 22, 2013

Can a High Protein Diet Prevent Muscle Breakdown When Losing Weight?

When you lose body fat, in most cases, you also lose what you don’t want to lose – lean body mass. Can eating a higher protein diet help? Find out what new research shows about protein and muscle breakdown during periods of calorie restriction.

December 8, 2013

Is It Possible to Be Obese and Metabolically Healthy?

Can you be markedly overweight or obese and metabolically healthy? That’s what some research suggests. Now a new study casts doubt on this theory. Find out why metabolically healthy and obese may not be compatible and why obesity increases the risk for health problems like heart disease and type 2 diabetes.

December 1, 2013

Sleep and Body Weight: Sleep Quality and Consistency Counts Too

The research is clear on one thing – lack of sleep quality can negatively impact your weight and body composition. How so? When you don’t sleep enough, you release more cortisol and that does undesirable things to your body composition by increasing visceral abdominal fat and breaking down muscle tissue.

December 1, 2013

These factors can increase your cortisol levels and make It harder to control your weight

Factors That Can Increase Your Cortisol Level and Make It Harder to Control Your Weight

Cortisol has an important function – but too much of it makes it harder to control body fat, especially tummy fat. Discover factors that can elevate your cortisol levels and work against you when you’re trying to stay slim and how to correct them.

November 24, 2013

What’s the Healthiest Thanksgiving Pie?

It’s hard to turn down dessert at the holidays – especially on Thanksgiving Day. On the other hand, some desserts are more unhealthy than others. What’s the healthiest pie you can eat at Thanksgiving?

November 24, 2013

5 Easy 5-Minute Breakfast Ideas for the Health Conscious

A healthy breakfast has been found to address many modern health concerns, from weight loss and maintenance to reducing heart disease, easing stress, and more. Eating a healthy breakfast does not have to be a time consuming process. Nor does breakfast have to be chemical laden prepackaged for fast food choices in order to be quick and easy. Here are the seven reasons why a healthy lifestyle includes a healthy breakfast followed by five easy recipes even kids will love.

November 17, 2013

5 Ways to Burn More Calories at Rest

The key to staying a healthy weight is to burn more calories not just when you’re exercising but all the time – even when you’re at rest. Fortunately, there are a number of ways you can do that. Discover five ways to burn more calories even when you aren’t working out.

November 17, 2013

5 Sumptuous Twists on Thanksgiving…That Won’t Crash Your Diet!

Thanksgiving is just around the corner, and if you’re watching your waistline you might assume that this means you’ll have to give up many of your favorite foods this holiday season. Don’t despair! With a few minor twists, you’ll find that you can still celebrate the holidays with many of your favorite foods.

November 17, 2013

ow to fit Thanksgiving into your weight loss plan

Have Your Turkey and Eat It Too: 5 Steps to a Fantastic Thanksgiving (While Sticking to Your Weight Loss Plan)

If you’re trying to lose weight, you might imagine Thanksgiving as a kind of no-man’s land of diet disasters just waiting to happen. You imagine yourself standing nervously by the veggie platter, hanging on for dear life to a few stalks of celery while your family and friends gorge themselves on turkey, stuffing, and pumpkin pie. But don’t worry! Just because it’s Thanksgiving doesn’t mean you have to give up your weight loss plan, or resign yourself to a dismal feast of crudités.

November 10, 2013

Rebound Weight Gain: What Research Shows About How to Prevent It

Once you’ve reached your weight loss goal, you may feel like you’re “out of the woods,” but there’s another issue you’ll have to deal with – rebound weight gain. A new study sheds light on what’s most effective for preventing this problem. Find out more.

November 10, 2013

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