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10 Fitness Tips To Get Ready For Summer

Heather Bauer, RD, CDN | Posted 05.13.2013 | Healthy Living
Heather Bauer, RD, CDN

Who's ready for summer!? With Memorial Day and warm weather just around the corner, it is time to whip out the bathing suits and put the chunky sweaters back in the closet. Here are my top tips for getting your body healthy and prepared for the warm summer days ahead.

How To Trick Your Brain So You Eat Less Yet Still Feel Satisfied

Posted 04.29.2013 | OWN

By Jena Pincott You already take tinier bites from smaller plates and bowls. Here are seven other lab-tested diet strategies that may fool the (ra...

7 Stages to Permanent Weight Loss

Irene Rubaum-Keller | Posted 04.26.2013 | Healthy Living
Irene Rubaum-Keller

These are the psychological stages of long-term weight loss. I hope knowing that is helpful. You can lose weight and keep it off. It's a process. It takes work. And even though it does get easier over time, the work continues or the weight returns.

How Nutrition Pros Cheat

Julie Upton | Posted 04.25.2013 | Healthy Living
Julie Upton

Can you cheat on your diet and still lose weight or maintain a healthy weight? Nutrition professionals say "yes," and we frequently cheat, ourselves. Here's what I and 10 other top nutrition pros indulge on, and how they fit these less-than-healthy treats in their diet.

Diet Advice You Can Ignore

Posted 04.23.2013 | OWN

By Corrie Pikul New research has changed the way we think about healthy eating. You may be surprised to find that some of the old diet rules are no...

The Worst Healthy Eating Excuses

Posted 04.03.2013 | Healthy Living

By SHAPE Editors Try these simple tricks to curb cravings, save time and make a permanent healthy change. More from Shape.com 5 Quick And Easy ...

5 Foods That Could Help You Lose Weight

Next Avenue | Posted 03.28.2013 | Fifty

SPECIAL FROM Next Avenue By Maureen Callahan Science is finding that these foods and drinks can help you shed pounds more easily and quickly ...

Should You Go On A Juice Diet?

Next Avenue | Posted 03.23.2013 | Fifty

SPECIAL FROM Next Avenue By Maureen Callahan Experts ponder the pros and cons of drinking your fruits and vegetables The country seems to be...

Are We Better Off Cutting Out Decadent Foods or Enjoying Them in Moderation While Dieting?

Gregg McBride | Posted 05.21.2013 | Healthy Living
Gregg McBride

Fresh-baked bread with cream cheese is not something I eat daily. Sometimes not even weekly. But it is something I enjoy in moderation. Even if I'm being strict with my eating plan (something that, for the record, I'm always paying close attention to, even when "treating" myself).

Why #1 Best Selling Author Says, 'Confuse Your Diet!'

Jim Higley | Posted 03.25.2013 | Books
Jim Higley

My kids tell me with regularity that I'm confusing. Now #1 best selling author Dr. Ian Smith tells me I need to be confusing my diet, as well. Confused? Well, don't be.

5 Key Strategies For Successful Weight Loss And Beyond

Manuel Villacorta | Posted 03.09.2013 | Healthy Living
Manuel Villacorta

If your New Year's resolution involves making a change in your diet with weight loss as a goal, you are facing a dizzying array of information out there. There is a great deal of evidence about what practices help weight loss, much of it contradictory.

Welcome To 2013: 8 Tips To Better Health

Dr. Lisa Young | Posted 03.06.2013 | Healthy Living
Dr. Lisa Young

Here are some tips I've offered my clients -- and now you -- to get out of the all-or-nothing mentality and into the mode of setting lifestyle goals that you can actually stick with to help you lead a healthier and more hassle-free life.

Master The 7 Diet 'Dos'

Denise Austin | Posted 02.27.2013 | Healthy Living
Denise Austin

I can't wait for you to be the fit and fabulous person you want to be -- and you will be. Now that you're creating a healthier you, follow these tips to avoid common diet pitfalls.

The 5 Foods Women Should Be Eating

Next Avenue | Posted 12.28.2012 | Fifty

SPECIAL FROM Next Avenue By Maureen Callahan New research shows there are foods that specifically help women -- not men -- age well While nu...

The Perfect Weight-Loss Romance

Caroline J. Cederquist, M.D. | Posted 02.17.2013 | Healthy Living
Caroline J. Cederquist, M.D.

Before putting all of your energy (literally) into your workouts, be sure that you are prepping yourself by eating the foods that provide you with the nutrients your body needs. A successful pairing of exercise and nutrition is not beyond your reach!

How I Quit Junk Food Cold Turkey

Maureen Anderson | Posted 02.05.2013 | Healthy Living
Maureen Anderson

Variety may be the spice of life, but it seems to be the undoing of eating well. It's much easier to call it good when the choices are limited. Subject someone to a buffet and there's a tendency to want to at least sample everything -- and to go back for seconds, and thirds, and fourths.

PHOTOS: TERRIBLE Advice, Courtesy Of A Barbie From 1965

The Huffington Post | Ryan Grenoble | Posted 12.05.2012 | Women

Many fad diets are based on ridiculous premises: eat lots of cabbage!; inject yourself with hormones produced by pregnant women!; staple your ears! ...

How to Not Let Your 'Ho, Ho' Turn Into 'Oh, No' This Holiday Season

Gregg McBride | Posted 01.29.2013 | Healthy Living
Gregg McBride

The holidays do not have to be a recipe for disaster when it comes to staying healthy, keeping fit and looking divine all the way through New Year's Eve and beyond.

An Easy Trick To Make Dieting Easier

Monica Reinagel, MS, LDN, CNS | Posted 01.21.2013 | Healthy Living
Monica Reinagel, MS, LDN, CNS

I think our appetites are pretty much like toddlers. When we're told -- or even when we tell ourselves -- that we have to cut back or give up a favorite treat, it's hard not to feel deprived. It can be hard to stop thinking about that thing we can't have.

What Would Batman Eat?

Irene Rubaum-Keller | Posted 01.15.2013 | Healthy Living
Irene Rubaum-Keller

A recent study discovered that if you ask kids to choose between apple slices or French fries with their lunch, and you ask them "What would Batman eat?" they will choose the apple slices over the fries.

The 25 Best Diet Tricks Of All Time

Posted 11.12.2012 | Healthy Living

A new diet arrives, another fades away. Should eating habits really be as fleeting as fashion trends? Let's face it: The best weight-loss strategi...

Stormy Weather? Top 5 Foods to Stock Up On

Dr. Lisa Young | Posted 12.30.2012 | Healthy Living
Dr. Lisa Young

As a New Yorker living in a crowded neighborhood, I could not help but notice the long lines in the supermarkets the other day. Of course, as a nutritionist, I could not help but notice the food choices my neighbors were stocking up on.

How I Beat My Cookie Addiction

Maureen Anderson | Posted 12.29.2012 | Healthy Living
Maureen Anderson

Every year I used to lose the same 10 or 15 pounds every summer, only to gain them back by Thanksgiving. One year I wondered if it was the cookies. My husband said, "Duh." On a whim I made him a bet: I would only bake the cookies, not wear them on my hips.

Preparation: What's in Your Lunchbox?

Dr. Wendie Trubow | Posted 12.17.2012 | Healthy Living
Dr. Wendie Trubow

Do you go off of the wagon when you are hungry and have nothing to eat? Do you realize you're starving and the only food available is something you'd prefer not to eat but "it'll have to do?" These are the times that you are most vulnerable to sabotaging your hard-won efforts.

How the 'Cell Phone Diet' Works

William Anderson, MA, LMHC | Posted 12.12.2012 | Healthy Living
William Anderson, MA, LMHC

Every time her cell phone rings, my patient, Rose, hears the Rocky theme. Each time she looks at her cell phone, she sees her target picture. It is a photoshopped picture of herself at her goal weight.