I’ve been working on living a healthier lifestyle.  I’ve noticed that in the last year, my metabolism appears to have slowed down. It takes a lot more work to lose weight. It’s frustrating, so I am always in search of tips to tweak my diet and exercise routine in a way that will translate to more successful weight loss and overall health.
I found a great list of diet tips from AOL Health. These tips are tried and true favorites of top US registered dieticians.
Some are no-brainers, like switch out your whole milk for 1% (I use Fat Free myself). Did …read more

If you’re like me, you’ve read the magazine articles about portion control and portion sizing when it comes to losing weight and/or keeping healthy, but you can’t keep all the measurements and sizes straight in your head. If you’ve got a few bucks to spare, you don’t have to anymore!

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They come …read more

Probiotics, the “good” bacteria found in yogurt and over-the-counter supplements, can help in the digestion of food. Now Stanford University School of Medicine and Stanford Hospital & Clinics researchers have found that probiotics also help gastric-bypass patients lose weight more quickly.
Researchers followed 44 patients receiving gastric bypass from 2006 to 2007.
The group of patients taking probiotics consumed one pill per day of Puritan’s Pride, available online and in many stores. Puritan’s Pride has no financial ties with the study.
The probiotics study, published in the July issue of the Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery, revealed that after three months, the patients taking …read more

I’m now venturing into my late 30’s and I feel that it is much harder now to maintain my ideal weight. The last year or so, I have noticed that it is harder to lose the excess weight. I used to be able to eat ‘bad food’ at least 2-3x a week and not gain a single pound but now….oh gawd, all I have to do is look at greasy food and I could feel my hips expanding!

I am on the look out for the right diet programme for me. What can you suggest? I’m currently looking into:
Atkins Diet
I heard …read more

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In short – the answer is no.
I have heard women lament about how as soon as they got married, 5-20 pounds immediately appeared on their frame, as if a wedding band were a magnet for saddlebags and love handles. The same deflection is heard every Fall when a bunch of kids trot off to college and promptly gain “the freshman fifteen”.
No, your husband and your marriage are not making you fat. And this is coming from a woman who has probably put on close to twenty pounds since the wedding day! To be fair, the slide downhill probably started a …read more

I think it’s great that Valerie Bertinelli is coming to Kirstie’s Alley’s defense with her recent weight gain. Alley has joked about seeing Bertinelli on the cover of People in a bikini by saying, “It’s like the student surpassed the teacher, who is now over there in the corner, fat!”
But Bertinelli still says Alley can lose the weight and get back in shape again. She says Alley’s recent 83 pound weight gain is “just a bump in the road. Nothing in life goes smoothly all the time.” She also credits Alley with inspiring her to lose weight …read more

The Biggest Loser, a reality television show that pushes people to lose weight, is a big hit in North America. But do such shows and competitions help people actually lose weight? I’m not sure about the TV shows, but when it comes to competitions, some researchers are saying “yes.”
In 2007, Rena Wing,professor of psychiatry and human behavior at the Waren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, and her colleagues evaluated the Shape Up Rhode Island weight-loss competitions.  According to this article, Weight Loss Competitions Produce Encouraging Results, “Shape Up Rhode Island reduced the percentage of patients in the study who …read more

We all want to get healthier, right? And as a woman, I really enjoyed reading this article about Health Tips Every Woman Should Know. One of the most important tips on here was being specific in our goals. For example, instead of saying “I’ll exercise more” the article suggests saying, “I’ll put my sneakers on when I get home and walk ten blocks.” The second example is much more measurable and seems more manageable too.

Other tips include finding out about your family history, having an annual skin check up, and avoiding salt. My favorite tips overall …read more

A new drug developed by Novo Nordisk is being considered for approval by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Members of the FDA are split on the approval because of worries that it may hasten the risk of a “rare thyroid tumor” that usually takes years to develop.

The new drug, called liraglutide, help lower blood sugar levels while also causing weight loss. It’s meant to compete with rival pharmaceutical maker Eli Lilly’s drug Byetta. The new drug would be taken once a day, versus the twice a day Byetta.
The thyroid cancer “called medullary thryroid cancer in both …read more