If you’re trying to choose a healthy food to begin eating more often, consider adding more beans to your diet. Not only are they full of vitamins, low in calories and packed with feel-full fiber, they contain resistant starch. This type of starch may trigger key appetite hormones that make you feel sated [...]
Men, looking for one more reason to work toward a healthier weight? According to recent research, obese men who are diagnosed with prostate cancer are twice as likely to die from it than men of a healthier weight. Every point a man’s BMI drops lowers his risk by nearly 7 percent.
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Tired of wondering which diet is the right one for you? Recent research says your genes may hold the answer! As Ron Winslow recently reported in The Wall Street Journal, women who were found to have a genetic predisposition toward a low-carb diet lost more than two times as much weight as those [...]
It may be a Saturday, but today’s swap involves two other days of the week … well, restaurants with other days of the week in their name.
If you order a BBQ Chicken Wrap at T.G.I. Friday’s you’ll be taking in what many of us allow for an entire day! Over 1,500 … or, [...]
A Penn State University survey showed that chefs routinely serve oversized portions that lead us to overeat. To avoid eating too much, ask for half the standard portion or split your main dish with a friend.
More: Automatic Portion Control
Outsmart Oversize Portions originally appeared on About.com Weight Loss on Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010 at 23:29:44.
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Low-fat dairy products may help reduce levels of cortisol, a stress hormone that may lead to belly fat development, thanks to calcium! Here’s why.
Do You do Dairy? originally appeared on About.com Weight Loss on Thursday, March 4th, 2010 at 23:11:47.
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I had the chance to try out a couple new ways to use bananas. I always buy them in bulk and end up getting tired of eating them alone or in cereal so these ways are fun to use up those I might not have used otherwise.
I sprayed a pan with cooking spray and [...]
The only thing better than getting closer to your goal weight is looking like you’re even closer to your goal weight! Check out some of my top tips for dressing slimmer:
Wearing any dark color, be it navy, dark brown or black, from head to toe is slimming, particularly if you wear garments that are [...]
Does your family have one favorite place that everyone likes to go to for celebration meals? Mine does. For us, that go-to restaurant is Olive Garden.
There are a lot of not so diet-friendly choices at the Garden, but that doesn’t mean eating there is cause for dietary disaster! The first [...]
Yes, you read that right: Good fats, that is, (mono- and poly-unsaturated fat) found in foods like nuts, certain fish varieties and olive oil, are not only heart healthy, they may also help prevent the accumulation of belly fat.
Read More: Identify and Understand Healthy Fats
Eat Fat for a Healthier Heart! originally appeared on [...]
