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• Lifestyle Diet  By : Renee Feldman
  Lifestyle Diets
  
  It's become increasing clear that diets don't work. Most of the popular diets that people have tried over the past few years focused on restricting or even eliminating whole food groups. People lost weight on these diets and then, of course gained the weight back. Now there is a small and hopefully growing trend towards lifestyle diets.
  
  Lifestyle diets focus on how one lives and then proposes easy to implement changes to help people to lose and most impo...
• The Chefs Are Coming, The Chefs Are Coming . . .  By : Virginia Bola
  It was in the late 1980s and 1990s that we started to balloon to what is now epic proportions. Yes, that correlates with the growth spurt of the fast food outlets and the soft drink industry. It also quietly parallels 85 million of us falling in love with the television chefs and the appetite for culinary masterpieces they triggered.
• Five Really Tough Dieting Tips  By : Virginia Bola
  If you are losing, trying to lose, or think you need to lose, weight, you are probably as sick as I am of those "easy" and "quick" diet tips that NEVER work!
  
  The following tips are neither quick nor easy. They are tough, uncomfortable, and demanding (but they work).
• Are You Eating Healthy?  By :
  How to tell if you have a healthy diet.
• The French Fry: Weapon of Mass Destruction?  By : Virginia Bola
  The innocuous potato, relatively low in calories and packing its fair share of vitamins and minerals, has been transformed into a culinary weapon of mass destruction. Disfigured by saturated fat into a caloric and artery-hardening horror, the French fry may be the deadliest peril we face on a daily basis.
• Diet: Changing Your Focus  By : Virginia Bola
  If we want to remove food from its central role in our lives, we have to stop thinking about it. Not an easy task but it can be done, even if painful. The real question is how can we do it.
• Not All Fats Are Bad  By : Dianne Ronnow
  Fats have been unfairly lumped together as being all bad for too long. Fat doesn't necessarily cause disease, and can actually cause a role in its prevention. The truth is that some fats are very bad for us and some fats are actually very good for us.
  
  Time has shown us that diets that restrict all fats fail in terms of weight loss. Since the end of World War II, Americans have been told that they need to restrict saturated fat in their diets. So we switched to margarine fr...
• Making It Through A Diet Day  By : Virginia Bola
  Like the alcoholic who faces the urge to drink at every turn, the overweight fataholic must also steer a narrow passageway through the shoals of temptation and the deadly barrage of food advertisements, ubiquitous drive-throughs, social occasions, and office treats.
• I'm Not Fat -- I'm Fluffy!  By : Virginia Bola
  No matter our weight, our body image frequently fails to reflect what is in the mirror but represents what is held in our mind's eye. The closer we can approach to the differing views being compatible, the more comfortable we will be in ourselves and the more valuable any changes we seek to make.
• Best Diets To Lose Weight  By : Paton Jackson
  Some thing tasty and yummy and yet you lose weight……
  
  All the best diet plans are based on restrictions on carbohydrates, fats and high calorie products. During diet plans you can take fruits, green leafy vegetables, roughages and foodstuffs having less calories.
  
  Top Diet Plans:
  
  The Cabbage Soup diet has been used by dieters for years. This diet includes many versions but the simple one is that if you eat cabbage soup when you are hungry it will fill you up and will h...
• Diet Fads: Supermarket Sheep  By : Virginia Bola
  Many of us are so desperate to control our weight that we buy into the promises like the unaware followers we are: bleating sheep heading for a precipice with no thought of questioning our leaders or striking out in a different direction.
• Were Cave Dwellers Ever Fat?  By : Virginia Bola
  What did our cavemen forbears bequeath as their legacy? Underfed and overactive, they willed us a body that still thinks we dwell in the primordial forest. Suddenly cut back on our intake of food and the alert is sounded through the nervous system and organs of our prehistoric physiology. "Famine coming, famine coming" our bodies shriek and immediately our metabolism slows to a crawl.
• Dieting: I Can't Afford To Lose Weight!  By : Virginia Bola
  When it comes to our weight, our emotions reign supreme. We so desperately want to be more attractive, more respected, and more desirable. We will even subject ourselves to painful and sometimes dangerous surgery to bring our reality closer to our ideal. And we will rob our piggy banks, deplete our bank accounts, and run up our credit cards for anything that promises us a slender future.
• Momma Said "Keep Your Fingers Out Of Your Mouth"  By : Virginia Bola
  Watching television exercises our eyes but nothing else. Unfortunately, it doesn't require us to do anything with our hands which leaves them free to grab something to eat.
• Weight Control: Operationalizing Your Plans  By : Virginia Bola
  Before you run off, filled with enthusiasm for your latest, greatest, and final (you swear) weight control plans, slow down and take the time to operationalize your goals and the likelihood of your success will increase exponentially.
• How To Cop An Attitude With An Overzealous Hostess  By : Virginia Bola
  We all encounter those hosts and hostesses who feel it is their duty to make us eat whatever their specialty is and generate a sense of guilt if we do not flatter their creation by stuffing ourselves with it, regardless of our weight control plans and weight loss goals.
• Atkins Destroys The Competition  By : Jeff Dorrian
  Nutritionists agree, today’s dieters can lose weight on many of the popular diets prevalent throughout the diet industry. The trick to dieting success is keeping the weight off once the dieting part of the plan has ended. Figures from the CDC show that the percentage of dieters who able to maintain their weight loss for five years after accomplishing their goal weight is a very disheartening 5%. Some research shows the figure to be less than this. So the greatest challenge fo...
• Colloidal Minerals: Trace Minerals Lost From Our Diet, Found In Ancient Plants  By : James Zeller
  Colloidal Minerals lost from our farming lands leave our crops devoid of essiential minerals required for good health. Now that we know the minerals are not in our food, where do we look to supplement our body needs? A look into plants millions of years old reveals a source available today...
  
  Living a healthy life is a major challenge in our lives today. In spite of all the hype about a healthy diet, exercise and numerous supplements, good health in the true sense of the w...
• The Skinny On Those Weight Lose Fad Diets  By : Glenn Freiboth
  Everyone on the planet is gullible to try anything that promises to help them lose weight because they want to look or feel better, or because they are worried about getting weight related diseases like obesity and even worse diabetes.
• The Top Ten Nourishing Foods For Dieters  By : Patricia Zelkovsky
  When you are on a calorie restricted diet, it is more important then ever to choose foods that are as jam packed with as many nutritional elements as possible. This is particularly true if you are taking Hoodia.
• Diet Suggestions For Lowering Cholesterol Levels  By : Kathryn Whittaker
  We all have cholesterol whether we like it or not as it plays an important role in our bodies. However, having high cholesterol is not good and should be lowered. Regardless of how we get it, lowering high cholesterol is always a good idea. We get cholesterol in two ways, through our body and mainly the liver. Every day, our bodies produce amounts of cholesterol that we don’t need. Animal foods like eggs, poultry, meat, seafood and milk contain a lot of cholesterol, which add...
• Tips On Lowering Cholesterol  By : Kathryn Whittaker
  Are you looking for ways to lower cholesterol? People these days are very conscious of their weight and their cholesterol level as well. It is not surprising to find people searching for tips and suggestions on how to lower their high cholesterol. Perhaps it is because of the health disadvantages that can result.
  
  Several heart ailments have been connected to high cholesterol level in the body. Some people, for whom the risk of a stroke is high, should not take high choles...
• Is Your Diet Making You Unhealthy ?  By : ian Williamson
  Are you feeling tired, stressed and apathetic? Did you know these are all common signs of a diet lacking nutritional value? If you are dieting, ill or eating a fast-food diet, you should you be concerned that you and your family are getting proper nutrition from your food.
• The Truth About Losing Weight On A Vegetarian Diet  By : Erik Leipoldt
  “It does not matter what you eat. Just don’t eat a lot, exercise, and your weight will not be a problem.”
  
  True?
  
  Not quite!
  
  There is scientific evidence that a vegetarian diet keeps that weight down, whereas meat eaters put it on. What you eat does matter.
  
  You know that weight loss is an industry. A money-making industry with many claims to make:
  
  Claims of weight loss pills, herbs and juices. Claims of exercise machines and exercise programmes. Claims of hig...
• Arthritis Relief and Dietary Vitamin C  By :
  Arthritis is one of the most prevalent health problems facing today's aging population. This article shows you how Vitamin C can help.