But if you plan on following his action plan, be ready to sweat.

Huizenga’s weight loss program focuses on large quantities of jogging daily and a strict balanced eating plan. According to him, the body has to work at 120%  7 days a week in order to lose the fat. To do this, anyone looking to lose weight needs to exercise at least 2 hours a day.

There is no time to rest.

As for the type of exercise, the book focuses primarily on walking and jogging as the two best ways to lose the fat.

It’s a program that has merits but be advised, it’s not suitable for everyone.  Those who seldom exercise or who are morbidly obese will struggle with this program and before commencing it, should check with their own doctor.

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A big fan of her previous two book on writing, I was interested on seeing how she incorporates writing into weight loss. Turns out she does it quite easily. Julia suggests that by using writing as a primary tool, you can figure out what’s causing your weight problem and then fix it.

Full of assignments and creative exercises, the book really makes you stop and think about the choices you have been making and the choices you could make.

It’s a comfortable read, offering gentle guidance through your journey of weight loss.

Overeating is usually such a mindless activity that we don’t realize we are entrapped in it’s maze. But by getting your creative juices running, and by writing down your actions, thoughts, and beliefs, there is a way out of the maze.

Those not used to writing may find some of the assignments difficult but if you follow Julia’s lead and just write whatever comes into your head, it will all make sense in the end.

The Writing Diet is broken into two parts. The first offers seven tools for weight loss, some assisted by writing, some not. The second section focuses on common situations and scenarios that arise in everyday life and how to address them as you focus on losing weight.

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And that’s just what ‘You Can Think Yourself Thin’ focuses on.

Written by trained hypnotherapist Ursula James, You Can Think Yourself Thin offers clear and simple techniques that get you examining your  subconscious and changing  negative thought patterns into positive ones. 

The ultimate goal might be to lose weight, but according to James there’s a few things that you need to do first. You need to build up your self confidence, improve your feelings of self worth, come to grips with underlying issues that are causing overeating, and then make a future plan. And only then should you focus on losing weight.

The book’s nine chapters (or stages) takes you on a journey of discovered aimed at helping you deal with issues of the past in order to provide the tools to deal with the present and the future.

First you read and then you listen to the designated track on the accompanying CD aimed at emulating hypnotherapy sessions.

All in all, You Can Think Yourself Thin, is not your average diet book.

Instead, it’s all about mind over matter, with the end game being that you regain control of your life and your weight.

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But finding out what pesticides might be on your food hasn’t been that easy. That is, until now. Thanks to the Pesticide Action Network (PAN), you now have at your fingertips a searchable database, What’s on my food,  which links “…pesticide food residue data with the toxicology for each chemical, making this information easily searchable for the first time.”

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But, as usual, it turns out that what I think is good for me might not necessarily be so.

According to this WebMD slideshow, there are three diverse sides to juice – the good, the bad, and the ugly – and how to spot the differences.

The Good – Vegetable Juices which have far less sugar and fewer calories than fruit juices

The Bad – Fruit juices might be the real deal full of vitamins and anti-oxidants but they are also naturally full of calories and sugars.

The Ugly – anything labeled juice cocktail, juice-flavoured beverage or juice drink. Odds are they will only contain minor amounts of the real stuff, with water and sugar making up most of the ingredients. They might not look filling but these sugary fruit drinks put kids (and adults) at risk of obesity and other related health problems.

WebMD, by the way, is not telling you not to drink juices. They are just wanting to make people aware of some of the pit falls of drinking them.

As to what juices they recommend, you’ll have to head over to the WebMD and check out their slideshow. A word of warning though – it might make you thirsty.

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To make life on the road easier for those dealing with celiac disease and gluten intolerance, Lisa A. Lundy, author of The Super Allergy Girl: Allergy & Celiac Cookbook -From A Mother Who Knows, has put together a short video full of useful tips and ideas.

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But wheat is also one of the major problems of modern Western diet.

This book Healthier Without Wheat, explains why. Written by Dr. Stephen Wagner,  a nationally recognized expert in the field of gluten intolerance, it provides not only the history of wheat consumption but also the reasons why, for millions of people, it is the root of all their digestive problems.

Gluten intolerance is one of the most overlooked and frequently unrecognized of today’s medical conditions, partly because most doctors themselves don’t have a clear understanding of what it is and how to recognize it.

With Healthier Without Wheat, Dr Wagner hopes to change that. Using factual information and personal stories, he  explains the differences between celiac disease and gluten intolerance, discusses medical tests that could rule out gluten intolerance, and offers practical advice for people to take with them to their doctors.

Healthier without Wheat will help you learn…

- How to find out if wheat or gluten is making you sick
- Why this can be more difficult than it appears
- How hundreds of health problems are connected with wheat and gluten reactions
- How you can be gluten intolerant even if you don’t have celiac disease
- Why non-celiac gluten intolerance can make you just as sick as celiac disease
- How to determine if your infant or child reacts to wheat or gluten
- What to do if you are avoiding gluten but not getting better
- Nutritional deficiencies commonly seen in gluten intolerance

It’s a must read for anyone interested in learning more about gluten intolerance and Celiac disease.

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Sodium nitrite is commonly used to preserve and color food such as hot dogs and bacon. It is also a common ingredient in fertilizers that are used to grow vegetables.

Granted, the scientists involved in the study have not found a concrete link yet but it’s enough of a link to get Suzanne de la Monte, the lead author of the study, to avoid nitrites herself.

Avoiding nitrites isn‘t such a bad idea. After all, they are already known to cause cancer. But this latest study is also suggesting that even low doses of exposure to these chemicals can have serious effects on the brain.

So if you were to avoid nitrites, here’s how you’d do it.

- avoid or reduce your intake of preserved meats (usually pink in color) such as bologna, salami, pepperoni, hotdogs, corned beef, pastrami, bacon, and cured ham.

- go organic

- grow your own vegetables

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Using subjects at Warren Warren Air Force Base (AFB) in Wyoming between 1948 and 1954, the Mayo Clinic study tested blood samples for the antibody that people with celiac disease produce in reaction to gluten. They then compared those results with two sets more recently collected samples from Olmsted County, Minnesota.

The results indicated that today’s young adults are 4.5 times more likely to be suffering from celiac disease than those in the 1950s.

People with celiac disease have a immune reaction to the gluten, a protein that is in wheat, barley and rye. Anytime they ingest gluten, they can develop acute symptoms such as diarrhea and abdominal discomfort plus chronic symptoms such as weight loss, anemia, unexplained infertility, loss of teeth and even premature or severe osteoporosis.

One of the problems with celiac disease is that the generality of it’s symptoms, many of which are also indicators of many other diseases including irritable bowel syndrome.

This video, featuring Joseph Murray, the Mayo Clinic gastroenterologist who led this study, explains more about celiac disease, it’s diagnosis, and treatment.

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Apparently, it show that when it comes to weight, there is no shrinkage. Some state may be holding steady but the major seem to be growing.

For the report,  400,000 American adults provided information about their height and weight which was used to calculate their body mass index (BMI).

Weighing up all the information, the CDC has determined that ‘the proportion of U.S. adults who are obese increased to 26.1 percent in 2008 compared to 25.6 percent in 2007.’

According to the CDC press release  “In six states – Alabama, Mississippi, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee and West Virginia – adult obesity prevalence was 30 percent or more. Thirty-two states, including those six, had obesity prevalence of 25 percent or more. Only one state, Colorado, had a prevalence of obesity less than 20 percent. But no state showed a significant decrease in obesity prevalence from 2007 to 2008.”

As for the ‘fattest state’, this dubious honor goes to Mississippi.

Here are the percentages of obese adults in U.S. states and Washington, D.C., according to the new CDC data:

Mississippi: 32.8%
Alabama: 31.4%
West Virginia: 31.2%
Tennessee: 30.6%
Oklahoma: 30.3%
South Carolina: 30.1%
Kentucky: 29.8%
North Carolina: 29%
Michigan: 28.9%
Arkansas and Ohio: 28

(source: WebMD)

 

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