Food scientists in the United Kingdom are developing a product with the promise of solving our obesity epidemic. It’s a product to be mixed with milk and taken either with a meal or in between meals. To sum up the science behind it, the product forms a gel in your stomach making you feel full. […]
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Here’s how American Mexican meals go wrong: you start off with a heap of tortilla chips and finish off with a fiesta of cheese, sour cream, guacamole, tortilla bread, rice, and beans. It’s not impossible to get up from the table 1,000 calories heavier. But the truth is, Mexican meals—if done right—can be a practical
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How often do you think of, or plan ahead, what’s in your plate? Many people have sincere intentions to eating healthy. However, distorted portions, disproportionate meals, hidden fats and calories, lack of time, and lack of availability of healthy options can jeopardize these intentions. That’s why planning ahead and thinking of what’s in your plate
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If you’ve ever thought you ordered the healthiest food pulling in to a fast-food drive-through or browsing the menu of your favorite restaurant to realize that you didn’t, then The Calorie Counter For Dummies is what you need. The 436-page pocket size book is light and simple reading, written by two registered dietitians, Rossane Rust
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Like many, we did our own share of traveling in December. Our trip was 7 hours long. We ate lunch before we left and packed fruit, baby carrots, and cut-up veggies for snacks and sandwiches for dinner. Coming back, we had to eat two meals on the road: we packed one and left the other
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Weight loss is repeatedly a common New Year’s Resolution. Structured surveys or polls of your friends, family, and coworkers will prove that. Overweight and obesity are prevalent, slimness and tight defined abs are over-emphasized, and holiday season overindulge push us to the edge. No wonder many look at the new year with hope that it’s
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My husband and I decided to treat ourselves, without the toddler mess, with a nice, romantic, upscale dinner. We headed to the city to one of my friend’s favorite fancy restaurants and ordered the three course meal: appetizer, entree, and dessert. The appetizer portion was skimpy, “it’s ok, it’s just the appetizer,” I thought. But
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Photo by: The Raggy Rat Now that our son can share many of our adult foods, we’re getting into the habit of eating meals together. It encourages him to try new foods and forces us to choose healthy options. After all, he wants to eat what we do. One day while we were having sandwiches
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Most likely your girlfriends. In a study published in Appetite, women took in more calories when eating with another woman, or a group of women, than with a man. Even in groups, when a male was around, women ate less. In fact, as the number of men in the group increased, the fewer calories women
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