weight loss

The Truth about Detox Diets

February 10, 2016 / 3 minutes of reading

Detox diets promise to clean up the mess left behind from daily life so you feel better, more energetic and lose excess body fat. Consider them the Merry Maids for your body. They come with an army of equipment and compounds to attack years of buildup from environmental toxins, pesticides, allergens, waste, and inflammatory substances. This “sewage sludge” is stuck to your gut, interfering with digestion, leaving you bloated, tired, fat and with joints and muscles that feel like they are on fire. …

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Avoid Packing on the Pounds this Holiday Season

October 2, 2015 / 2 minutes of reading

If holiday parties tempt your desire to overindulge in mouth-watering creamy dips, comforting homemade casseroles and delectable desserts, you may find yourself panicking by the end of December and ready to crash diet on January 1st. Instead of doing something stupid (crash dieting), try a more sensible approach to avoid packing on the pounds this holiday season while still enjoying yourself. Follow these 3 tips for keeping calories in check this holiday season: Think “strategic placement” at holiday parties. While other people …

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Dietary Fat Intake – Does it Affect Weight?

January 5, 2010 / 2 minutes of reading

The following advice has become a mantra engrained in our society’s battle of the bulge: “If you want to lose weight and improve your health, eat a low fat diet”. And for years I bought into this during the carb-frenzy fat-free 1990s. But then I entered graduate school and started reading the research (and I was just plain hungry all the time).  A low fat did work for many people who were obese or overweight because cutting fat meant they …

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Choose Protein for Sustained Weight Loss

September 1, 2009 / 2 minutes of reading

Looking to lose weight? Bust out the protein. A recent study published in the Journal of Nutrition found what figure athletes and bodybuilders already know. Diets with increased protein and reduced carbs are effective for weight loss and maintenance. In this particular study the researchers put adults (average age 45) on one of two energy restricted diets for 4 months to induce weight loss: 1) 1.6 g protein per kg body weight and less than 170 grams carbohydrates or 2) …

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Why Exercise Won’t Make You Thin

August 16, 2009 / 2 minutes of reading

You bend your back in hot yoga, sweat through spin class and torture yourself in bootcamp yet the pounds just aren’t coming off. Or at least, they aren’t coming off as quickly as you’d like. Does exercise really work? Does it make you thin? Afterall, who cares about clean arteries and healthy cholesterol levels if your butt won’t fit into a pair of Lucky jeans? Time Magazine recently explored this issue in their article: Why Exercise Won’t Make You Thin. …

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Weight Loss: Is it All About Calorie Balance?

August 4, 2009 / 2 minutes of reading

Yesterday I found this calorie balance equation on the CDC website and my first though was: this is a very simplistic view of weight maintenance. However, when communicating to the masses (something CDC certainly does), breaking things down into simple terms is a necessity to get the point across. And, calorie balance is important. Study after study shows that as a whole, U.S. citizens eat too much and exercise too little (hence that 30% adult obesity rate nationwide). And, we …

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