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We know it matters what you eat. Does it matter when you eat? Absolutely! When you skip a meal, your autopilot gets the message from the stomach, “Hey, we are out of business here.  Where is the fuel?” “I don’t know what is up,” the autopilot signals back. “I’ve passed on your message to the…

Variety may be the spice of life — but too much of that spice may have contributed to our epidemic of obesity.  A study in this month’s  The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition tested the idea of putting a meal on cruise control to see if study participants ate less if they ate the same…

You see lots of advertisements about products that help you lose weight.  What really works and what is just plain hype?  We’ll be taking a look at some of the most popular weight loss aids and see which ones can actually help you. Today let’s take a look at meal replacement shakes.  Clinical studies have…

You have been faithfully keeping to the plan and stepping up the exercise.  Why is the scale not moving? Yesterday we talked about how too many calories — even the right kind of calories — can stall out your weight loss.  Writing down what you eat can help you figure out if this is your…

Want to speed up your dragging metabolism?  How about eating more?  More often, that is. When you skip a meal your autopilot gets worried. “Fuel is running short,” he signals to all your organs. “Everyone slow down and conserve.”  And your body obediently drags to a halt and tries to avoid losing fat. Now the…

Kind friends often give me suggestions to include in my blog.  Some of them are great — but every now and then I get a real dud.  Like this one: “When I know that I’m going to be going to a party where there are lots of goodies, I just compensate,” a friend told me.…

It’s Friday — recipe day.  I have a one-pot meal for you today that even this incompetent cook made successfully.  However, this incompetent photographer didn’t get a picture! Steamed Vegetable and Chicken Medley for Two  Ingredients 1 cup thinly sliced carrots 2 cup chopped kale with the stems removed 1 cup cubed zucchini 1 onion,…

Study after study has shown it — eating breakfast will kick your metabolism off and keep it running the rest of the day. There are several reasons breakfast works.  For one thing, it wakes up your leptin hormone and sets it working for the day.  Leptin is the anti-hunger hormone. It tells your autopilot that…

“I’d like to be at a healthier weight,” a friend told me. “But we just don’t have the money to buy expensive diet foods and there isn’t enough in the budget to join a gym.  I’m stuck!” Many folks feel that way — that a healthy diet and exercise plan is out of reach because…

Eating is easy.  It seems like a quick fix to make us feel better.  Unfortunately, food doesn’t really solve any of our real problems.  Like drugs and alcohol, it just gives us a temporary boost.  To be free of an unhealthy dependence on food, it might help if we take the advice given to those…
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