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If you're one of those people who can't stand all the counting and tracking and adding and charting that some diets require, you could find a refuge in one simple numerical scale: the glycemic index.
17:04 Aug 1, 2006
Doctors and other health professionals often hear their patients complain of a slow metabolism, certain they're just not burning calories as efficiently as others who eat the same amount.
09:09 Jul 18, 2006
There's an old proverb that counsels, 'Make your words soft and tender, lest you should later be obliged to eat them.'
18:04 Jun 27, 2006
A 3fatchicks' co-founder tried Diet To Your Door's home diet delivery program for the first time and offered her honest, detailed review to her online community of diet savvy readers.
15:41 Jun 8, 2006
For years, the conventional wisdom about adolescent body image has been that we have a nation of youngsters obsessing about their bodies, panicked that they might be toting a couple extra pounds.
18:41 May 11, 2006
Obese American males lose and average of six years of life expectancy to their excess weight. Six birthdays, six family Christmases, six Super Bowl Sundays.
18:24 Apr 26, 2006
We can stop wondering. It looks like an olive a day is really what keeps the doctor away, or the oncologist, at least.
09:44 Apr 22, 2006
We can stop wondering. It looks like an olive a day is really what keeps the doctor away, or the oncologist, at least.
05:04 Apr 11, 2006
People in a rush often skip breakfast and then later rationalize that it's okay, telling themselves they didn't need those calories anyway.
18:55 Apr 5, 2006
When one of the first words to come out of your daughter's mouth is 'chips' (and she's too young to know who Erik Estrada is), you begin to wonder what kind of eating habits lay ahead for her.
05:10 Mar 22, 2006
Back in the bad old hunter-gatherer days, the human species got a lot of use out of the hormone cortisol. That's the stress hormone activated during the fight-or-flight response...
04:59 Mar 16, 2006
You sit up to the table, mouth watering, and she serves you a plate with a heaping pile of white sugar, another of pile bleached flour, a scoop of lard and a meatball between a couple chunks of diced tomato.
05:45 Mar 7, 2006
As more long-term data become available about the generally positive outcomes for bariatric surgeries, more consumers are opting for these procedures than for any other non-cosmetic elective surgery.
05:00 Feb 21, 2006
For some people, that conjures up images of a gritty dietary supplement drinks they have to gag down. But a daily diet rich in food-based fiber sources could help them avoid that icky beverage...
06:55 Feb 7, 2006
Today's anti-carb diet hype is really giving carbohydrates a bad name when, actually, the right type of carbs form the backbone of good nutrition.
19:25 Jan 31, 2006
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