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Is losing weight one of your New Year’s Resolutions?
If weight loss was one of the resolutions you committed to on January 1, 2009, by now you should have made some progress. That progress could be weight loss, behavior change or a combination of the...
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High Blood Pressure and African Americans
February is Black History Month. All across the United States, there are festivals and educational events celebrating Black history and remembering some of the amazing people who have shaped our...
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Fat, Protein or Carbohydrate? What’s the Best Way to Lose Weight?
A New England Journal of Medicine study published today examined how 811 people fared on four different diets with varying macronutrient contents: 1) 20% fat, 15% protein, 65% carbohydrate2) 20% fat,...
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Putting Yourself First
As a master’s student I co-coordinated a 6-month weight loss intervention study. Little did I know how much work it would be or what I was getting myself into. Before that point I had no real knowledge...
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How Your Farmer’s Market Can Help You Lose Weight
This is my favorite time of the year – the 80+ degree weather has set in and the sun is shining! Plus, from May – November your local farmer’s market has an awesome selection of fruits and vegetables....
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Eat Carbs, Lose Weight!
Get this, you can eat your beloved carbs and lose weight! Did you know that a higher carbohydrate consumption was associated with a decreased risk of obesity according to a recently pubished study in...
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Weight Loss: Is it All About Calorie Balance?
Yesterday I found this calorie balance equation on the CDC website and my first though was: this is a very simplistic view of weight maintenance. However, when communicating to the masses (something...
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Why Exercise Won’t Make You Thin
You bend your back in hot yoga, sweat through spin class and torture yourself in bootcamp yet the pounds just aren’t coming off. Or at least, they aren’t coming off as quickly as you’d like. Does...
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Choose Protein for Sustained Weight Loss
Looking to lose weight? Bust out the protein. A recent study published in the Journal of Nutrition found what figure athletes and bodybuilders already know. Diets with increased protein and reduced...
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Dietary Fat Intake – Does it Affect Weight?
The following advice has become a mantra engrained in our society’s battle of the bulge: “If you want to lose weight and improve your health, eat a low fat diet”. And for years I bought into this...
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Avoid Packing on the Pounds this Holiday Season
If holiday parties tempt your desire to overindulge in mouth-watering creamy dips, comforting homemade casseroles and delectable desserts, you may find yourself panicking by the end of December and...
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The Truth about Detox Diets
Detox diets promise to clean up the mess left behind from daily life so you feel better, more energetic and lose excess body fat. Consider them the Merry Maids for your body. They come with an army of...
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Can You Lose Fat and Gain Muscle at the Same Time?
Eat fewer calories than you burn each day and you’ll lose weight. There’s one major issue with this time-tested approach: you’ll probably strip away more than just body fat. Weight loss, especially...
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Count Macros, Eat Doughnuts & Get Ripped
If you’re counting macros (grams of protein, carbohydrate and fat), are you stuck with a boring diet full of egg whites, chicken, brown rice and broccoli or, can you indulge in doughnuts and other...
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