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Good Question, and one I get in my Mailbox a couple times every month. Brisk walking will help you lose weight, but you have to start eating healthy by lowering your calorie intake to about 1500 a day. Which means you have to stop drinking calories. There are plenty of no-calorie drinks on the market, but if you want to clean your body of toxins you should drink water. You can flavor your water with fruit or vegetables. I like slices of cucumber or you can use slices of orange or lemon. Use fresh fruit or vegetable, not something that comes in a can or jar. Walking continuously for 30 minutes or more is best for fat-burning. It takes that long for the body to burn enough calories that it needs to release fat from your fat cells and use it for fuel. Walk most days of the week for at least 30 minutes extra to burn an extra 1000 to 3000 calories per week and to improve your metabolism each day. How Far Would I Walk in 30 Minutes? If you walk at a brisk walking pace for 30 minutes, ...

Consider Convenience, Accessibility, and More By  Malia Frey yulkapopkova / Getty Images When consumers look for a weight loss program, they usually look for the easiest diet to follow. After all, who wants to spend weeks learning a complicated system? But almost every program claims to be easy so it can be hard to choose the best plan. 3 Ways to Find the Easiest Diet Everyone has a different lifestyle and different food preferences so the easiest diet for your co-worker or your neighbor might  not  be the easiest diet for you. The key to getting sustainable weight loss results is to find the plan that works best with  your  specific skill set and  your  specific lifestyle. Ask yourself a few important questions before you look for a diet: How much time do I have to cook and prepare foods? Do I like to cook and spend time in the kitchen? Do I like to try new tastes and flavors? Do I have time to grocery shop? H...

If you follow the news about health and fitness these days and the constant focus on obesity, you may get the feeling that you're doing everything wrong. You sit all day at the computer -- wrong! You drive everywhere instead of walking -- wrong! You watch too much TV, don't take the stairs enough, don't exercise enough -- the list goes on and on. Sitting around, it seems, has become as dangerous as driving without a seat belt and, yet, that's how most of us spend our time. It's clear that our sedentary world doesn't call for much activity, yet we need that activity to stay healthy and lose weight. So, how can we make exercise a more natural part of our lives? The first step is to figure out what's really behind our inactivity. What's Stopping You from Exercise?  We're all familiar with the most common reasons we don't exercise -- we're too busy, too tired, it's too boring and confusing, etc. But are those reasons or are they exc...

Dwight Eschliman/Getty Images Question:  If junk food is so bad for the body and bad quality overall, why is it so popular? You'd think no one would touch it." Answer:  That's an excellent question, and I certainly can't say that I have the answer. I do have some thoughts on the subject -- and maybe one or more are correct, so here goes: First, let me back up and define 'junk foods.' It's the stuff you eat that has little to no nutritional value, usually combined with ingredients that are bad for you, or is high in calories when consumed in excess. So that means candy, chips, cookies, cake, sugary soft drinks, greasy burgers, hot dogs, French fries, ice cream, and most things that served at fast food restaurants qualify as junk foods. So why do so many people eat junk foods? Here are three possible reasons: #1 It's Cheap I think one big reason junk food is popular is because a lot of it is cheap to buy. I mean you can go to most any fa...

This question Is on my top ten list of most asked questions, so I found a post from VeryWell.com that has the answers. I want to comment now before you read any more. I do believe that most of the younger generation that are dieting, don't really have to diet. Yes, there are high school and college-age young adults that are seriously overweight but most of my readers are just flabby and that comes from eating the wrong foods. Your body can't process everything you eat. Ready-made foods have a lot of chemical additives to preserve then and your body doesn't process anything that not natural. For instance, if you buy a frozen pizza and bring it home and cook it, you should know that very little of the pizza is real food. Read the food label next time you go to the store. The manufacturer only has to use enough of the real ingredient to be able to list it on the label. There is more additives than real ingredients. The same goes for most everything on the shelves. Don't b...

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. Over time, all those little steps will add up. Yes, they will, but easing into a healthy diet means you only want to change small parts of your diet a week at a time like giving up ice cream. If you eat a half gallon a day and give it up, you will probably notice a difference, but most people who give up something like that will find a way to substitute something else that's sweet and won't really gain much. As you can tell, I'm not in favor of taking small baby steps to changing their diet. Even if you're successful, It can take next to forever and as far as seeing results, the d...

Eat Clean Diet Review: Unprocessed Foods for Weight Loss Reblogged from WebMD The Promise She means eating foods -- like lean protein, good-for-you carbs and fats, fresh fruits, and vegetables -- six times a day in the right amounts. Do that, drink lots of water, and exercise regularly, and Reno says you’ll turn your sluggish metabolism into a fat-burning machine. Dedicate yourself to the clean eating lifestyle, and you’ll lose about 3 pounds a week, Reno says. The benefits go beyond weight loss. You'll stay healthy and have more energy. Your eyes will look bright and alert. Your teeth and gums will be healthier. Your skin will glow. Oh, and did we mention you won't be hungry? “When you Eat Clean, the benefits are visible (and perceptible to you on the inside, too) from the top of your head to the tips of your toes,” Reno writes in  The Eat-Clean Diet Recharged! The Eat-Clean philosophy is that nutri...