Tag — Weight Loss Tips

From the earth to your mouth, corn in its various forms takes a remarkable journey up the modern food chain. Dried, pulverized, and fried, the hapless corn kernel is stripped of its antioxidants and becomes a source of concentrated calories. Check out the “processed food chain tree” below to see how corn goes from good to junk. Note that calories are listed for 4 ounce serving sizes. If you ever wondered why we’re losing the battle of the bulge and getting sick… a pic is worth a thousand calories. [Read more →]

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Ross Mathews, “the Intern” of Late Night with Jay Leno fame and most recently a celebrity participant of Celebrity Fit Club, has lost his “baby fat”! In fact, he has lost a remarkable 50 lbs or “half a Nicole Richie” as he put it in People Magazine. In college he was 230 lbs and although he managed to lose 16 lbs by “eating a bag of baked Lays as opposed to a bag of Cheetos,” he didn’t address the real issue which was “why do you have an entire bag of anything?” His motivation for joining Celebrity Fit Club and losing weight stemmed from the recent passing of his father. “It made me take inventory of my life. It was now or never.” [Read more →]

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Valerie Bertinelli’s weight has certainly been making news lately, with some tabloids calling her efforts to lose weight on Jenny Craig a “Diet Disaster.”  In the latest issue of People, Valerie, who split from ex-huddy Eddie Van Halen in 2001,  reports she has lost 30 lbs in 4 months on Jenny Craig.  Holding nothing back, Valerie dishes all including her take on the “Diet Disaster.” [Read more →]

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One of the most effective strategies to lose weight is to keep a food journal.  When you keep a food journal or diary, you become more focused on weight loss and you begin to understand where those “stealth calories” are coming from.  So how much can keeping a food journal help with your weight loss? [Read more →]

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Feeding the kids diet food may condition them to overeat and gain weight according to new research published today in the journal Obesity. We instinctively match calorie intake with the body’s energy needs and we are conditioned to associate taste with calories ingested. However when children are fed diet versions of foods normally high in calories, this “taste conditioning process” gets short circuited causing them to overeat. [Read more →]

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Here’s portion control that comes on a plate. In a study published in the Archives of Internal Medicine, obese diabetics who used a portion control plate and bowl for six months lost an average of 1.8 % of their body weight, while 17 % lost at least 5% of their body weight. The use of diabetes medications was also reduced by 26%. [Read more →]

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When people get stressed they often turn to high-fat, high-sugar comfort foods resulting in bulging waist lines and weight gain. Now researchers at Georgetown uncovered a mechanism that explains why comfort foods and chronic stress results in more weight gain than one would predict based simply on calorie intake. [Read more →]

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Tiffany, whose “I think we’re alone now” made her a teen idol, reveals to In Touch magazine her weight loss struggles and how she recently lost over 25 lbs on Celebrity Fit Club. She’s had her share of yo-yo dieting. “I shot my metabolism with crazy diets and pills. I lost so much weight going through my divorce (1997) that I got down to a size 0.” After a spread in Playboy in 2002, she began to gain weight. “I made a lot of bad choices, like eating after shows or waiting till I was so hungry I ate too much and rolled out of the chair. I relied a lot on caffeine to pick up my energy and ate Taco Bell because it was affordable and easy.” [Read more →]

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Michael Moore, the controversial documentary film maker, is out promoting his new film Sicko opening June 29th. In the same vein as “Roger and Me” and “Fahrenheit,” his latest film tackles our health care system and exposes its short comings. Feeling a little “hypocritical” about not taking care of his health and his burgeoning waist line over the years, he recently started the Pritikin diet on the advice of Roger Ebert. [Read more →]

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LeAnn Rimes, who is busy promoting her soon-to-be released Family CD, revealed to Shape magazine her diet and workout secrets for maintaining her great figure. [Read more →]

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