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Mediterranean Diet Information
Mediterranean diet is basically the dietary traditions followed by the people of Greece, Spain and southern Italy who live around the Mediterranean Sea. It has been studied by an American Dr Ancel Keys when he landed in Greece in 1945. He...
Menopause and Bioidentical Hormones
Can menopause symptoms be safely comforted with bioidentical hormones? Recent research suggests that menopause can be treated with bioidentical hormones, a natural replacement for a woman's body, with no reported side effects. In the past,...
MORAL ARMOR'S Irrational Parenting, Part III
Copyright 2005 Ronald E Springer
Not Letting Them Think.
We all implicitly know that anything questioning the process of cognition itself will be met with massive irritation, making us want to respond with “Don’t question my capacity to...
Simple Weight Loss
Did you know that weight loss (and weight gain) is simple mathematics? For example, if you were to eat an extra 100 calories per day you would gain 10 lbs in one year. The good news is that the opposite holds true too – burn 100 calories more...
Stress
Stress is everywhere. From taking a test to dealing with a cranky customer service representative, dealing with the loss of a loved one, stress is impossible to avoid. It can be acute, such as the stress that occurs in the face of immediate danger,...
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Do Quick-Fix Diets Work?
A big trend these days is the "diet of the week" - you've probably heard of dozens of these in your lifetime. They'll rapidly become a fad for a short period of time - eat only this or that, or take a special shake, and you'll lose the pounds rapidly. They all promise quick results - but do these diets really work?
The answer in most cases is no. Usually you can get a short term loss of weight fairly easily with any diet that changes your eating habits dramatically - if you cut off the calories, most people are going to see significant short term weight loss. That's why they always focus on losing a certain amount of pounds by a certain date - they know most people will. But the other side to the coin is that most people won't keep them off. It's much harder to keep the pounds from coming back than it is to get rid of a chunk of weight by altering your diet. You've already gotten the "shock"
benefit, and eventually your system is going to return to normal. And in many cases, you'll have done damage to your health by abruptly changing your nutrition levels - it's just not safe to be excluding entire classes of food from your diet in most cases. The better, and more traditional course, is to just start eating the foods that everyone knows are healthy and do regular exercise. It's the approach everyone hates - there's no time, and it's hard work, and many people just don't want to. But if you really want to lose the weight and keep it off, it's the only way to go.
About the Author
Teve Torbes has interesting opinions on the subject of air purifier things, and he has produced a forklifts web site. He has also managed a wonderful air bed thing.
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