Soup and Salad Diet

This diet is easiest if you stick to the canned soups, since the calories are counted for you, as against homemade. If variety is not important to you, eat the same fruits and snacks each day. All the snacks are listed at the end of each day’s menu. You may eat them all at the same time or scatter them throughout the day.

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Sweet Diet

If you occasionally have the craving for candy or cookies, try this diet. Each day’s selection is balanced nutritiously, but the emphasis is definitely on your sweet tooth. Total daily calories: 900 or less.

DAY 1

Breakfast
¼ cantaloupe
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The Big Breakfast Diet

There’s an old proverb that goes something like this: breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and dinner like a pauper. It makes good diet sense to eat lightly in the evening because for many people this is the least active time of the day. The less you eat, the more efficiently your body can burn off the calories.
There are no snacks on this diet. You will, however, find fruits listed in almost every day’s meal plan. If you like, save the fruit and use it as a snack. Read more

“Tired Blood” or Iron Deficiency

The human body contains between 3 and 5 gram of iron. A man’s body contains more of it than a woman’s does, since the woman regularly loses blood during her menses. In addition, it is popular belief that iron is usually associated with strength and with good reason.

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The Sweet Truth About Sweet Foods

The belief according that we must absolutely eat sugar for fear of lacking energy is false. The reality is that we consume way too much sugar, as white sugar (saccharose) is being added to almost all processed foods and because of a pronounced weakness in most people for a “little sweet taste”. White sugar supplies calories without providing the system with any nutritious substance.  To be able to use white sugar, the system must draw from its own reserve of nutritious elements. This phenomenon is at root of a number of health problems. Read more

Is Alcohol Necessarily Bad?

Man has appreciated alcoholic beverages for thousands of years. This leaves us with the impression that, all in all, alcohol is somewhat without danger. We reassure ourselves by thinking “Of course, there are serious consequences from time to time, but they are reserved to those who abuse it”. The truth is this:  alcohol is one of the most common toxic agents and …one of the most popular! Would it be fair to say that we often favour a few moments of relaxation over vigorous and lasting health? Read more

Facing Realities: Overweight

Facing reality isn’t easy for most of us. If we faced reality, we wouldn’t have become overweight in the first place.

The reality is that men lose weight faster and more consistently than women. Women get the weight off, but not necessarily in a straight line like men. Who said life was fair? If life was fair we’d all have long legs, straight teeth and bottoms that didn’t sag. Read more

Secret Of Keeping Weight Off

Almost anybody can lose weight. But not everyone can keep that weight off. Staying thin is a matter of hard work and a determination not to get fat again.

All the successful dieters are people who have given all dreams of miracle cures. In exchange for those dreams, they have devoted themselves to understanding their food needs and adjusting their calories to meet those needs.

Once you’ve lost weight, the best way to maintain that loss is to use a simple variation on those diets that have helped you take it off in the first place. By using the diets and a process of trial and error, you will quickly learn the maximum number of calories you can consume each week and still maintain your goal weight. Read more

The Fish Diet

Virtually everyone who has dieted knows that fish is a low-calorie food. While it’s not everybody’s favourite, it offers an excellent source of protein and is truly the best value in calories. If the fish specified in diet isn’t available, substitute with any of the following: bass, bonito, butterfish, cod, eel, flounder, halibut, fresh herring, mussels, oyster, caviar, sturgeon, shad, scallops. Read more

Women and Weight Loss

If you are a woman and you need to start your day off in a calm mood, a breakfast high in carbohydrate will do it. High protein may make you tense and anxious. On the other hand, if you are about to have lunch and need to be alert in the afternoon, this would be the time to cut down on carbohydrates. If you are male, use the same information to your benefit.

Nutrition Reviews magazine says that just before menstruation, a woman’s metabolic rate is at its height. The body burns almost 400 more calories a day during that time. That’s the good news. The bad news is that women adjust their food intake so they actually eat about 500 more calories daily during this time period. Read more