Healthy Food Chart

It was recently reported in Parentdish.co.uk that a mother started her daughter on a Calorie restricted diet at the ripe old age of two.

She explained that she didn’t want her daughter to grow up and look like her, weighing 238 pounds. This story is sure to create some controversy as it beckons the questions of how young is too young to diet and how much Calorie restriction should be considered child abuse.

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Alcohol is available in the UK for just pennies, meaning that kids can get drunk on 50 cents – the cost of half a candy bar.

It’s a shocking statistic, and one which has made headline news.

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Myth 1 – Starving makes you lose weight fast

Myth 2 – Low carbohydrate diets make you lose weight quickly.

Myth 3 – Eating sugar free or fat free foods will promote weight loss.

Myth 4 – Wearing rubber or plastic based belly wraps will help burn fat.

Myth 5- Salads are healthy so I can eat all the salad I want.

Myth 6 – Working out allows you to eat whatever you want.

Myth 7 – Juice diets help you to burn fat.

Myth 8 – Magic weight loss pills allow you to lose weight while not dieting or exercising.

Myth 9 – Exercising for hours a day is good for losing weight.

Myth 10 – Sit ups are the best way to lose belly fat.

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Did you know that babies born to women who ate a lot of bacon while pregnant are more intelligent?

I didn’t, along with these other amazing facts about bacon. This creative info-graphic points out 10 interesting facts concerning this “miracle meat”. I guess I won’t feel guilty anymore about wanting to try the Baconator from Wendy’s… Well, until someone publishes the 10 Ways Bacon Kills Us of course.

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When trying to lose weight having goals will help you achieve great results. How much do you want to lose each week? Areas to improve your diet? Exercise? These goals should be set each week.

I have lost 20lb & my husband has lost 43lbs. Having too many goals will just confuse you.

KEEP IT SIMPLE

A funny thing happened to me a while ago. For some reason it just now dawned on me to blog about. Sorry, I’m slow.

At the time, I had switched Yoga studios. I like a vigorous practice and my old studio cut back on classes. Now, as luck would have it, my new studio is two doors down from a farmers market, which is win-win for me.

So I was shopping there every week, and typically I bought a lot of fruits and vegetables, especially fresh greens, like broccoli and spinach. I’m mostly vegetarian, so I plow through a lot of vegetation every week.

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Many obese people don’t see themselves as fat and in fact, they think they’re healthy – or so says a new study.

Talk about being a “glass is half full” type of person. I wish I was like that!

The problem is this positive attitude doesn’t dispel the fact that obese people are at a heightened risk of death, i.e. heart disease, stroke, high blood pressure, etc.

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Ever wonder what the staple foods are in another person’s diet?

Here in the UK we have Gillian McKeith’s TV show, “You Are What You Eat“, and while I certainly don’t agree with many of Gillian’s concepts, I love how she delves into the eating habits of those families, laying it out for the whole nation to see.

It certainly makes interesting viewing, if nothing else.

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In the uphill battle to fight obesity, Mayor Michael Bloomberg has petitioned the United States Department of Agriculture to ban the 1.7 million food stamp users from using them to buy soda, or other sugared drinks.

This move is part of series of interventions to curb obesity, which have included advertisements, stricter rules on food sold in schools, and a yet-to-be successful attempt to tax sugared drinks.

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A survey of 1,037 women has uncovered a knowledge gap when it comes to certain weight issues – including their influence on their children’s weight.

Here are some of the findings of the survey – conducted by HealthyWomen.

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