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1). Muscle vs. Fat and Your Energy Level
Right now, the greatest results in raising our metabolism come from exercise and building our muscle mass, while reducing our body fat. Adding more muscle to the body, in turn causes us to burn more calories, and this helps to elevate our metabolic rate.
2). The Rule of Three – Easy Weight Loss like you won’t believe!
Here’s a weight loss tip that you won’t believe – but it really works! Instead of telling you to eat less, this one actually has you eating more. And what’s more, it works! By adding three times the nutrients to everything that you snack on, this diet is a great way of teaching you to regulate your eating.
3). The Most Natural Way to Lose Weight
Because of our society’s obsession with thinness, losing weight is a primary concern for many individuals, particularly women. Sometimes it’s an obsession that goes too far. Many women with perfectly normal body weight consider themselves overweight, and this applies to young girls as well.
4). Lose Weight Fast with a Homeopathic Patch
Homeopathy, frequently confused with naturopathy, is a 200-year old system of medicine that is widely accepted and practiced in Europe (even by mainstream doctors). In North America, it is poorly understood, however, and is still on the fringe of what is deemed acceptable by mainstream medicine.
5). Our National Obesity Epidemic
You see it everyday, news and information that bring to the front our problem with our weight. It is a national problem. It’s not just your older sedentary population; it’s not just your overworked middle-age population; and it’s not just your nerdy teenage population. It is a national epidemic.
6). A New Diet Pill for Weight Loss and Better Health
Quite understandably – and quite rightly, in fact – diet pills used to have a bad reputation. It’s easy to see why – the diet pills of the sixties, seventies and eighties were barbiturates – street name ‘speed’.
7). Is your Body Image Realistic?
While it is true that many of us, in this day and age, have a genuine need to lose weight, it is also true that there are many more women on diets than really need to be. The fact is, women have a tendency to see themselves as fat even if they aren’t.
8). Lose Weight by Eating for your Blood Type – Fad or Fact?
Several years ago, a very interesting new idea with regard to weight loss became all the rage: eating for your blood type. This concept answered the age-old question of why not all eating plans work for all people.
9). The ABC’s of Eating
The ABC’s of Eating would be a great title for an education course that addresses all of the food groups, the benefits and detriments of those groups and how to ascertain what our individual needs are from each category.
10). Lose Weight by Eating the Right Carbs
In the past few years, we’ve heard a lot about how carbohydrates are ‘bad’, and how the road to weight loss is low-carb eating.
11). The Easiest Ways to Lose Weight
Losing weight is something that we all worry about, as a society. In fact, studies show that North Americans are heavier than they have ever been before, and this includes our children. With all the health problems that are caused by obesity, that’s a very serious problem – it will probably impact on our health care costs in the very near future.
12). Lowering Your Calorie Intake, Eating Healthier
The foods of the food pyramid are necessary for our optimal health. But in what quantities and which ones are the best? These are questions that must be tailored to our individual needs.
13). Lose Weight with Long Distance Walking – One Step at a Time
Some of us are content to follow a standard, regimented weight loss and exercise plan. For others, inspiration is necessary. We need a vision, beyond that of a slimmer body. And that ‘s where long distance walking may come in. Walking is one of the best ways to lose weight.
14). Personalize your Weight Loss Plan
The problem with many diet and weight loss plans is that they take a one-size-fits-all approach that simply might not work for everyone. That’s why the same diet that you friend might swear by may not work nearly as well for you.
15). Eating for Life
As a matter of course, all responsible persons should take the time to educate themselves, and their children, about the benefits of healthy eating. Learning to eat for life in a health conscious way is one of the best...
16). Water – The Simplest Weight Loss Tool of all!
By now we all know that drinking enough water is essential to good health. It keeps us hydrated, and this can easily be seen and felt in a person’s eyes and skin.
17). Lose Weight in a Controlled Environment
There are few things as controversial as losing weight – though everyone would agree that many people in our society have a pressing need to do just that, we disagree over the best way to do it. Hence, there are so many approaches to weight loss that it becomes very confusing to many of us.
18). Home Delivery Service for Convenience and Weight Loss
Most of us have busy lives nowadays, and shopping and cooking may be low on the list. We are more inclined to just grab a bite to eat while going to and from work or kid’s activities – an excellent way to pack on the pounds, especially when this becomes a way of life and is coupled with a demanding job that allows little or no time for exercise!
19). Eating Habits: What We Learn as We Live
It’s 7:00 am, and you’re late for work. You decide to just simply skip breakfast, and have a snack later, around midmorning. Your kids decide they don’t want breakfast, either.
20). Discover your Food Allergies and Accelerate Weight Loss
Some nutritionists estimate that up to 75% of all people have undiagnosed food allergies. They may not be allergies in the way that we commonly think of them – that is, we may not sneeze or get a rash, or go into anaphylactic shock. But they are allergies all the same, if these foods provoke a negative immune response in the body.
21). Managing Time and Saving Money
Managing time is saving money. When we have control of our time, it makes our load easier, and our lives stronger. When we are achieving a financial limit, we need to understand the value of a dollar.
22). Lose Weight with Yoga
Yoga might not be the first thing anyone thinks of when they think of an exercise to help them lose weight. Think again – though the results may not be as fast as with other types of exercise, the long term benefits of yoga (in terms of weight loss and overall health) are great.
23). Vegetables: The Healthier Snack
The easiest place to affect our health is through our eating habits; in fact it’s the most effective solution to better health, sharing the spotlight with exercise. What about our food intake? What choices do we have to make eating a healthier occurrence?
24). How to Eat Right in 10 Minutes
It’s Thursday afternoon, you have thirty minutes to get from work, go by the house and pickup Heath, Jamie’s already at basketball practice, oh, and what about dinner?
25). Losing Weight with the Body for Life Program
Most weight loss programs focus on either diet or exercise, but that might just turn out to be a mistake. Effective weight loss depends on both, as part of an integrated program. That’s just what the Body for Life program delivers.
26). Lose Weight with a Natural Weight Loss Remedy
Garcinia cambogia is a natural weight loss supplement that is making headlines in North America and Europe. Though not a magic bullet by any means, studies show that garcinia cambogia can be effective in helping people lose weight in two basic ways
27). What About Salads?
In case you’re not a salad lover, let me be one of the first to tell you that you’re missing one of the most delicious foods a person can consume.
28). Weight Loss Surgery – A Last-Ditch Option that Saves Lives
We hear about people having weight loss surgery – having their ‘stomach stapled’, and so on – with a kind of horrified fascination. What could drive someone to do a thing like that?
29). Weight Loss – The Group Approach
People are social beings, so for many of us, it doesn’t make sense to try and lose weight alone. Many people do better in a group program such as Weight Watchers. In fact, Weight Watchers has been one of the most successful weight loss programs around for many years now.
30). Think Thin to Lose Weight
Your battle with weight might have begun in your childhood, as you attempted to fid out how many cookies you can eat in one sitting. Or maybe it occurred around the time you step foot on college campus for the first time. Those late nights of studying might have led you to late-night binge eating sessions
31). Low Fat Eating – A Lifelong Diet Plan
It seems as though every few years, a new diet fad comes along. The low fat approach was popular last decade, only to give way to a type of diet that is almost its complete opposite – the ‘low carb’ Atkins or Zone approach.
32). Reward Yourself for Weight Loss Successes
Whether you have a little or a lot of weight to lose, you will benefit greatly by some simple behavior modification measures, such as rewarding yourself every time you meet one of your smaller goals. Losing weight is a big challenge for most of us.
33). Lose Weight with the South Beach Diet
The South Beach Diet is one of the most publicized diets of recent decades. Developed by a Florida cardiologist, Arthur Agatston, the diet is one that emphasizes natural foods, ‘good’ (that is, complex) carbohydrates, and ‘good’ fats. In other words, this is a diet that has the potential, at least, to be very healthy...
34). Weight Loss with Traditional Foods
Many of us think back fondly to times we cannot possibly remember – times and places when voluptuous, even hefty, women were glorified, when a few extra pounds was a sign of beauty rather than a problem to be dealt with . It is a fact that, even today, there are some societies that have quite a different idea about weight gain than we do – especially for women.
35). Food Labels: Fact or Fiction
It’s a proven fact that a manufacturer is in business because they make a profit off the items they sell to the consumer. This has been a known fact since the inception of manufactured food.
36). Effective Weight Loss for Today’s Busy Lifestyle
The vast majority of people have busy lives nowadays, and fine tuning our eating habits may be low on the list. We are more inclined to just grab a bite to eat at a restaurant – even fast food - while going to and from work or kid’s activities.
37). Losing Weight with the High-Protein Approach
Over the years, one of the most effective ways to lose weight has been high-protein eating. Lately, it has been popularized by diets such as Atkins and The Zone, but it’s actually a much older approach to weight loss, having been around for at least twenty years or more.
38). Lose Weight with Chromium Supplements
Part of the new generation of diet pills – a great, great improvement over the older style of diet pill, that was essentially a barbiturate – includes naturally occurring substances, such as vitamin, mineral or herbal supplements. In general, people feel safer with these natural substances than they ever would with pharmaceutical drugs, though this confidence is sometimes misplaced.
39). Metabolism and Eating Habits
The body’s metabolism is a unique process for each individual person. No two people metabolize food at the same rate therefore no two people have the metabolism. We all use our calories at different rates, with different results.
40). Vitamins, The Forgotten Element
Vitamins and minerals are more readily available to us than ever before, and we’re still no better equipped to actually determine what we need to take, than we were forty years ago. Just because we see the latest advertisement about a particular vitamin and decide the symptoms of deficiency apply to us, does not mean we need to rush out and purchase the product.
41). Easy Weight Loss – Small Steps that Make a Big Difference
If you have a significant amount of weight to lose – say 20 pounds or more – the task ahead of you can seem very daunting. Is it any wonder that so many people try to put it off, or to deny that the problem is as serious as it really is?
42). Just “Add a Carrot” for Great Weight Loss
Here’s the problem: so many of us have busy lives nowadays, what with work, family, and social life – and there’s no good way to make our lives less busy than they are; nor do we want to, most of the time!
43). The Four Food Groups
With the release of the new food group pyramid, there are officially five food groups. Oils and butters are now included as a food group; but for the purpose of this paper, we are still going to consider ourselves to have only four.
44). The Importance of Saying NO – and what it has to do with weight loss
Inspirational writer and teacher Geneen Roth has made career out of offering people – women in particular – an alternative to dieting for natural weight loss. Roth herself struggled with her weight for years.
45). Easy Weight Loss for Dog Lovers
If you need to lose weight, more than likely you are thinking in terms of diet and exercise plans, not pets. There are, however, several reasons why getting a dog may be the best thing you ever do, in terms of weight loss.
46). What is Metabolism?
The dictionary defines metabolism as the sum of all biochemical processes involved in life, or the sustaining of life. In application concerning our health, metabolism is related to the intake and use of food.
47). Sustained Weight Loss with Linoleic Acid
Many of us have had the experience of having early success with a diet or exercise plan, but this does not necessarily translate into long term weight loss or health benefits. In fact, many dieters are subject to a syndrome that we commonly call ‘yo-yo’ dieting, in which the same ten, twenty or fifty pounds are gained and lost repeatedly.
48). Affirmations for Weight Loss
Affirmations are a mainstay of New Age philosophy. In fact, Louse Hay’s book “You can Heal your Life”, which has many affirmations that purportedly have allowed people to transform their lives through affirmations and visualization, gives us a powerful tool in the quest for weight loss. Affirmations, whether you believe in them or not, really seem to work.
49). Natural Diet Pills for Weight Loss – How Safe are They?
Many of us have heard horror stories about the ‘diet pills’ that were popular a generation or so ago. These pills, available with a prescription, were basically ‘speed’ – which, in a slightly different form, was sold as a street drug.
50). Meal Replacements for Weight Loss – How Good an Idea are they?
Think about the number one reasons why people are overweight nowadays. Overweight people fall into one of two different categories.
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