According to the American Dietetic Association, the difference between weight loss and weight gain can be as little as 100 calories a day. Most Americans suffer from 'weight creep' - those nagging pounds that creep on over the years - at an average of about 2 pounds per year. That's 20 pounds in ten years. 40 pounds in 20. Can you afford to weigh 40 pounds more than you do now in twenty years?
Expert Author: David Buster | Submitted: 2005-12-21 | Word Count: 430 Are you wondering how lose weight fast diets work? It's a legitimate question to ask - and here's how lose weight fast diets promise that you'll achieve fast weight loss but usually fail to deliver what they promise.
Expert Author: Joey Dweck | Submitted: 2005-10-18 | Word Count: 517 There are so many different and varied diets floating around today that it can be quite difficult to make a decision regarding which one is right for you when you feel it's time to lose weight. Some diets emphasize low fat while others insist low calories are the way to go. Still yet, other diet gurus are adamant that in order to meet your weight loss goals you must cut out all forms of carbohydrates.
Expert Author: Jerrick Foo | Submitted: 2005-10-05 | Word Count: 1026 Understanding Dry Itchy Skin: What is it and How Can You Prevent It(tm)
Expert Author: Susanne Myers | Submitted: 2005-12-30 | Word Count: 714 Losing weight is one of the most popular New Year's resolutions each year. We all start with great intentions but after a few weeks, we fall back into our usual unhealthy lifestyle and the weight we did lose creeps back on. Let's take a look at what steps to take to make sure we still stick to our weight-loss resolution at the end of December.
For decades, the Holy Grail of the diet industry has been an all natural appetite suppressant with no side effects other than the intended weight loss. Like the Holy Grail, it has been elusive. The diet pharmaceutical companies thought they found it in starch-blockers, in ephedra, in fat binders. the list goes on. While many of these worked, they often came with a heavy list of side effects, many of them dangerous.
Expert Author: Bill Herren | Submitted: 2005-10-09 | Word Count: 252 Have you heard the joke about the person who orders a large cheese burger and super sized fries and then asks for a diet soda because they are on a diet(tm) Although this is an exaggeration it is a perfect way to explain what we mean by a blind spot. A blind spot is something that can sabotage your weight loss efforts and everyone sees it but you.
Expert Author: Jan Thomsen | Submitted: 2006-02-01 | Word Count: 429 Once you've achieved your desired weight, you return to your old eating habits and levels of activity, the weight will return. Plain and simple.
Quick-fix diets face this kind of problem. They don't offer long-term changes which sometimes cause the downfall of the program.
Expert Author: Keith Kingston | Submitted: 2006-02-04 | Word Count: 400 Unfortunately when it comes to weight, body composition and your health, the scales don't tell you the whole picture. In actual fact your weight is less important than your percentage of body fat when it comes to appearance, fitness, and health. This is where body fat monitors can help. Tracking your percentage of body fat with body fat monitors better shows how you are doing with diet and exercise than measuring weight on its own.
Are you trying to lose weight? Have you tried exercising? In case you do not know, exercising regularly is the most effective way to lose weight. Dieting is another way to do it and people choose it very often because it helps them to achieve weight loss very quickly. The problem with dieting is that, in most cases, when dieters return to their old eating habits they gain back all the weight they had lost, which is something very frustrating.
Expert Author: Wesley Atkins | Submitted: 2005-10-25 | Word Count: 709 In order to make the most of your weight loss program, finding the most effective ways to burn fat will maximize your results and minimize your waistline! Follow these 10 tips for fat burning if you want to lose weight and lead a healthier way of life.
Expert Author: Dana Goldberg | Submitted: 2006-02-11 | Word Count: 348 Does it seem like no matter how little food you eat, you never lose a pound? You start your day out with an apple, eat vegetables for lunch and have a tiny dinner. You have all week, but you're still the same weight. Why?
Expert Author: David Riewe | Submitted: 2005-10-22 | Word Count: 1117 You will feel better and lose weight quicker if you eat a large breakfast and eat a smaller dinner. You may also want to eat the majority of your carbs earlier in the day, saving a salad and lean meat protein for dinner.
Expert Author: David Riewe | Submitted: 2005-10-22 | Word Count: 1302 Dieting is not easy. If it were, we would probably all be thin. Since we are not, here are some tips that successful people use to lose weight so that others can benefit, too.
If you're an Atkins diet fan, are you one of the 30 per cent of people whose bad cholesterol levels on the diet can cause serious problems for your heart health? Find out the story of one man who went from having a 4 per cent chance of having a heart attack before the Atkins diet, to needing surgery because one of his major arteries was 99 per cent blocked after following it for 2 years.
The Zone Diet is one of the five most discussed diets currently being endorsed. Developed by Barry Sears, a former researcher at MIT, it is based on maintaining insulin levels by striking a balance between carbohydrates and proteins at each meal.
Expert Author: Bill Herren | Submitted: 2005-10-09 | Word Count: 306 Is your lifestyle contributing to your weight gain(tm) For healthy people - weight gain is caused by simply consuming more calories than you burn. Unfortunately for most of us, our healthy lifestyle education comes in the form of a blaring commercial that is trying to convince us that eating this "lite" food or using that "miracle exercise machine" will lead to a healthy, fun, lean lifestyle! A healthy, lean lifestyle takes effort and education.
Are carbohydrates confusing you? Find out about the glycemic index and metabolic syndrome. And some interesting new research on why fructose could be making you pack on the pounds.
Expert Author: Roxanna Bain | Submitted: 2006-03-18 | Word Count: 959 Your weight loss success comes down to the choices you make. Learn about 3 different weight loss options and decide which will work best for you.
In 1993, the Harvard Medical School released the results of research that studied the diets of those countries bordering on the Mediterranean. Their findings suggested that fat and carbohydrates were NOT the main culprit in obesity and heart disease, but rather that the RIGHT fats and carbohydrates should be the base for a healthy diet. The study pointed to low rates of obesity, diabetes and heart disease throughout the region as proof of their contention.