What is the point of losing weight? Do you want to lose weight to become more physically attractive? Or to fit into your existing wardrobe more easily? Or to improve your overall health? If your main reason is to improve your overall health, losing weight is probably not your best bet for two reasons. First,…
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Forget Dieting to Lose Weight
Dieting for weight loss usually fails over the long-term Weight cycling may harm your health Are you on a diet to lose weight? If so, you’ve got lots of company. In the US, the prevalence of women dieting to lose weight increased from 14 percent in 1950-1966 to 57 percent in 2003-2008. For men, the prevalence…
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Do You Eat Enough Protein?
Official guidelines may be too low Increase protein at breakfast Science can be bothersome at times, providing contradictory guidelines for what we eat. The Recommended Dietary Allowance (RDA) for protein is expressed as number of grams of protein eaten per kilogram of body weight per day. For both adult men and adult women, experts proposed…
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