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Linda Watson: Marion Nestle Says Calories Count for Weight Loss, Health (Video)

2012-05-25T10:24:44Z

The conclusion of Dr. Marion Nestle's Why Calories Count offers refreshingly straightforward advice about how to stay healthy and trim in a society that promotes overeating: Eat less, eat better, and move more.

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Manuel Villacorta: Emotional Eating, or Is It Really Just Poor Nutrition?

2012-05-24T11:54:09Z

I understand that some people truly deal with emotional eating, but lately with the hype about low- or no-carb diets, I am encountering more and more people coming to see me with complaints of experiencing fatigue along with intense carb cravings.

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8 Great Meat-Free Protein Sources

2012-05-24T07:19:19Z

One of the most common myths about the vegetarian diet is that after ditching meat it becomes nearly impossible to meet the suggested guidelines for p...

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12 Tips for Midlife Weight Loss From Guinness Record-Holder

2012-05-22T19:21:00Z

At 56, Bob Natoli is one of the oldest six-time Guinness World Records holders for feats of fitness. His latest record came when he lifted 51,640 poun...

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David Katz, M.D.: Nutrition Guidance: Facts About Opinions About Facts

2012-05-22T18:00:01Z

There is an intrinsic problem with measuring the quality of a system by how well it conforms to what you already believe. Such a system gets bonus points for agreeing with you -- even when you are wrong.

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Mark Banschick, MD: 7 (Drug-Free) Ways To Overcome Divorce Anxiety

2012-05-22T11:30:29Z

It probably does not come as a surprise to you that anxiety and stress disorders are common among recent divorcés. Some choose to deal with this stress by taking anti-anxiety medications.

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Dr. Sharon Ufberg: Top 5 Reasons Women Seek Holistic Remedies

2012-05-21T11:14:23Z

Apparently, there are a lot of tired women wondering how to feel renewed and re-energized. Here is nutritional therapist and herbalist China Rose Reid's list of the top five complaints that she hears from women, along with some of her suggestions.

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America's Dumbest Foods

2012-05-21T10:42:52Z

There's a reason that the Standard American Diet is abbreviated as S.A.D.

From deep-fried macaroni and cheese balls to the "bacon explosion," Ameri...

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Heather Bauer, RD, CDN: What Food Labels Really Mean

2012-05-20T10:41:24Z

For most, deciphering nutrition labels can be like reading hieroglyphics. It can be time-consuming and thankless. I'm committed to providing my readers as much accurate nutrition information as possible.

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Nancy Deville: The ‘Make It Or Break It’ Age For Your Health (And 8 Ways To Revamp Your Routine)

2012-05-20T10:40:21Z

The early 40s are the years to make significant changes to head off accelerated aging. It's a "make or break it" time of life. You can tailspin into aging, or you can revamp and renew yourself.

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JJ Keith: How I Learned To Stop Fearing My Reflection

2012-05-20T10:00:20Z

Accepting our bodies -- and meaning it -- is harder than it seems. I don't want to live my life always five or 10 or 30 pounds away from being okay with myself.

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Lisa Firestone: What's Behind Emotional Overeating?

2012-05-20T09:03:00Z

By taking action on a physical level and taking interest on an emotional level, we can re-establish our relationship with food, with our bodies, with our past, and with ourselves as a whole.

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David Katz, M.D.: The Problem With Our Approach To The Obesity Epidemic

2012-05-19T11:00:03Z

Fundamentally, we have converted a world in which calories were relatively scarce and hard to get and physical activity unavoidable into a world where physical activity is scarce and hard to get and calories are unavoidable.

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Rick Foster: An Answer to Your Question: How I Really Went Off Sugar

2012-05-18T12:50:59Z

An article I read about sugar induced a fearful epiphany. I hadn't been previously aware of the metabolic disturbances and other frightening impacts of sugar on my body. Thus, fear became the spark that ignited a major life change, which I'm enjoying to this day.

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Elisha Goldstein, Ph.D.: The Slow-Down Diet: Enjoying Food, Feeling Better

2012-05-18T12:13:11Z

Have you ever been sitting at a meal with someone, or even by yourself, and been halfway through the meal without having tasted the food? In my experience, the odds are likely that you'll be nodding your head up and down.

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Stay In Tonight! Home Cooked Meals Could Add Years To Your Life

2012-05-18T08:32:07Z

For those of you who use your stove for shoe storage, nota bene: all that wasted time with an inactive kitchen could be shortening your lifespan. In f...

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Paul Spector, M.D.: Sweet Nothings? Sugar Substitutes and Weight Gain

2012-05-17T16:16:00Z

When man tampered with nature and uncoupled the sweetness sensory signal from caloric load, a pairing that we adjusted to for thousands of generations, our capacity to know when we had enough was eradicated.

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Stephanie Sarkis, Ph.D.: Eating Disorders in Men: An Interview With Dr. Roberto Olivardia

2012-05-17T12:19:13Z

Men with eating disorders have much shame around their eating disorder, feeling as if they are less masculine because of it. This results in men being less likely to ever seek treatment, or even tell anyone about their eating disorder.

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Dr. James Costello: Cool Food

2012-05-15T14:50:59Z

At the end of the session we approached to ask the one question that we have been waiting for. "What is the most ideal food for a human?" He fell silent and looked pensive. Then, his face brightened, his eyes sparkled.

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What Weight Watchers Meant To Women In The '60s

2012-05-15T10:09:17Z

This week on Mad Men's "Dark Shadows" episode, Weight Watchers serves as a type of therapy for Betty Francis, who can definitely use it. Boredom, jeal...

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Nil Zacharias: Who's Pulling the Strings of the Vegan Propaganda Machine?

2012-05-15T11:24:14Z

At times, it almost feels like every scientist in the world is secretly conspiring to ruin the idea of a good meaty meal by generating more bad news about meat and well-researched proof that a plant-based diet is optimal for good health.

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Bob Harper: The Skinny Rules : Eat What I Tweet!

2012-05-14T20:00:38Z

My new book is a rule book for your life as a healthy-weight person, a person who can enjoy delicious food in the right portions and be satisfied.

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Marisa Moore: 7 Strategies to Slim Down for Summer

2012-05-14T15:17:17Z

The unofficial start of summer is just weeks away. If the thought of baring your arms, legs and belly this summer make you want to run for the cover ups, read on. These slimming strategies can help you jumpstart your weight loss in time for your first barbeque or stroll on the beach.

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David Katz, M.D.: Mind-Boggling Nutrition Guidance? You Betcha'!

2012-05-11T08:07:00Z

The National Consumers League, claiming to represent consumers' interests, issued a press release this week announcing they had submitted a complaint to the FDA, asking the agency to banish NuVal from the nation's supermarkets.

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Paul Spector, M.D.: Fat Loss Made Simple

2012-05-09T11:36:56Z

The public was told that longer duration low-intensity exercise, like a jog on a treadmill or a steady session on a stationary bike, provides the heart rate that is optimal for burning fat. Wrong!

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