Blog on weight, How to Lose Fat on the Cheap

I found a great article about my favorite snack food. Reviewed by Brunilda Nazario, MD Once viewed by some as food too high in calories to enjoy on a regular basis, nuts are getting new respect. Two recent studies have touted the benefits of nuts for blood sugar control. One, published in Diabetes Care, found that eating pistachio nuts daily may help people at risk of getting diabetes control their blood sugar. A second, published in PLOS One, found that tree nuts — including almonds, Brazil nuts, cashews, and pecans, among others — may improve blood sugar control in people with type 2diabetes. These are only a couple of many recent studies that point to the health benefits of eating nuts in moderation. What are some of the top health benefits of nuts, as found in recent research? Aside from helping with blood sugar, nuts have been linked with improving heart health and helping with weight control. A study from last year even suggested that eating nuts of any type may help you live lon...

Exercise alone doesn’t make you lose weight, in fact, exercise can cause you to gain weight. You have to diet. Exercise helps you to retain muscle mass. The object in losing weight is to lose the fat and lose inches. Checking the scale every day won’t help you lose weight. If your plan is working then you’ll lose inches and your clothes will begin to fit better and even become baggy. You’ll start to have more energy and you’ll actually become a happier person. Exercise does play an important part in a weight loss plan. Once you change the way you eat, start eating healthy foods and stop eating those foods and drinks with empty calories. Food and drinks that do nothing to help you lose weight are empty calories. Some people think they will lose weight by eating low-fat foods or diet foods in the grocery store that are low in calories, but this won’t help you. Prepared foods like TV dinners or ready-made sandwiches, frozen pizzas, and other already prepared foods even bread, or rolls are...

In our fast-paced society, the Very-Low-Calorie Diet (VLCD) is quickly becoming the chosen fad or method of weight loss. It even comes with a guarantee of shedding those unwanted pounds yesterday. Extreme measures of weight loss may be warranted and prescribed during a medical crisis. This would be understandable. However, applying drastic weight loss methods for the everyday person may not be safe or healthy. Many very-low-calorie diets (VLCDs) are now being covered by insurance plans. This has made it even more appealing for people to sign on the dotted line. Not usually understood is only part of the VLCD program may be covered by insurance. The diet shakes are the largest part of the VLCD and a costly pay-out-of-pocket product. Be cautious about any diet making unrealistic weight-loss claims. Extreme weight loss programs may severely restrict food intake and recommend drinking shakes in lieu of eating. Studies on very-low-calorie diets (VLCDs) do show rapid weight loss but not with...

Everyone who diets knows about counting calories. The experts have been telling us forever that all we need to do to lose weight is to eat fewer calories. But is that all it’s about? If that’s all there is to losing weight why are so many people overweight? I know, maybe it’s all about carbs? Or they tell us we have to exercise more or your doing the wrong type of exercise. Not really, the whole idea of the low-carb diet was to get you to eat less junk food. Junk food or manufactured foods like you buy in a box in the grocery store is 90% carbs and has almost no nutritional value. But low-carb wasn’t the answer because you would cut back on junk for a while but never quit eating junk completely. And low-carb and low-fat foods usually have more sugar to put taste back in the food. None of that will help you lose permanent weight. So what is the answer to weight loss? I believe that all calories are not equal and that you don’t need to count calories, you need to eat better food. The Atk...

 It was great to take a break from that office routine and still have a job but there was consequences. We have more overweight people today in America then ever before. Some of these people have never been overweight before. This alone can cause it's own health crisis. Overweight people can find it harder to find a job. Why, you might ask. Because they can use almost twice as much health benefits as the average employee. Why does that matter? Because most companies budget only a certain percentage for healthcare expenses and don't want to see that amount increasing. It's hard enough for companies to keep up with increasing costs of coverage, but then to add an employee with pre-existing conditions just adds a burden on the budget and can also affect productivity. It's a known fact that someone with pre-existing conditions usually needs more time-off for medical reasons.  With the percentage of overweight workers increasing it's no wonder that companies would rather...

Is your diet less than healthy with too much fat, sugar, sodium and processed foods? Don’t feel bad — that’s a common thing — and I can help you.  I know it’s not easy to switch from a junk food laden, high-calorie diet to a healthy diet. If you aren’t ready to make an over-night dietary transformation, don’t worry — you can take small steps to improve your diet. One common problem that most of us have is that we have a hard time recognizing unhealthy foods. A lot of manufactured foods are trying to mask the contents of their product to make it look healthy. For example low-fat foods are loaded with sugar to give them a better taste. That's just an example because many low-carb foods have pluses but also minuses so they sound healthy but they can be loaded with other chemicals to make them taste good. The only goal for the manufacturer is to make a product that tastes good at a price you will pay and at a profit margin that's good for the company.  The picture above will illus...

Most of us who have a weight problem, don’t know they have a problem. They don’t pay attention to their bodies unless something is becoming a problem like your clothes not fitting. I’m not going to paint a rosy picture about how easy it’s going to lose your fat, but losing that fat is essential. You don’t have to worry that much about what the scale says, your goal should be to lose inches in the truck section of your body. The rest will take care of itself. The bad fat your doctor doesn’t want you to have is the fat around your waist. When you measure your waist at the navel it should be half your height. I’m 72 inches tall, my waist should be a 36. I don’t mean a 36 pant size, I mean 36 inches at the navel. So even if your weight is in the normal range, and you can check your range on several different websites, if your waist is too large you need to lose some of that fat. There are two ways fat can build up, over the top of your muscles or under the muscle layer. Under the muscl...

“We’ve known for a long time that excess body fat increases cancer risk,” The cancer society says excess weight contributes to as many as 20 % of all cancer deaths. “This study is interesting because it suggests that the number of years you spend being overweight also matters,” and that should provide further incentive to avoid excess weight gain in the first place. Because more women have a higher risk of getting cancer than men, this research study was done on women, but the principles of being overweight adding to your risk of cancer pertain to both men and women. Currently, about 7 out of 10 adults in the United States are overweight, and more than one-third are obese, according to background notes with the study. I’m sure that you’ve heard on the news about the increase in cancer in people over 50. Over the past 30 years, Americans have almost doubled the number of people on cancer drugs. So why the big increase in cancer patients? It’s because of our diet. The population keep...

Could Processed Foods Expose You To Harmful Chemicals? YOU BET CHA!!, If you’re from Minnesota you have probably heard that phrase more than once. In this case, I’m not joking. Everybody worries about the chemicals that be harmful in vaccines or in the air, but no one seems to worry about the chemicals in the food we eat. Or how about the 400,000 Americans that die every year from complications from being overweight. It’s not like the food purveyors actually add harmful chemicals because they don’t want to get sued, but the ingredients they buy can contain chemicals that can harm you over time. In processed foods, in order to keep the price low, manufacturers will substitute, for example, a natural ingredient like “sugar cane” for a manufactured product like “high fructose corn syrup” which can be bought for less money and won’t fluctuate in price because it’s man-made.  So, why does the FDA (Food And Drug Admin) allow anyone to do that? The answer is that the foods are made s...