Low fat, reduced calorie, low carb, sugar free, and light are all terms used to make you think a food is good for you. But too much of any food equals too many calories. People order more and eat more when they believe the choices are healthy. A restaurant-size dinner salad, drenched in dressing, is … Read More
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Dieting dynamics are interesting. When you are successfully controlling your weight, people around you often react in contradictory ways. Some become cheerleaders, celebrating each victory and reveling in your successes. Others try to test your resolve by tempting you with foods you are trying to limit. Be firm. Tell everyone how important it is to … Read More
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Many people don’t realize that larger portions have more calories. They figure a soda is a soda, no matter how big — until you stop and calculate that a 32-ounce soda has 400 calories. Next time you order, think small — soda, coffee, movie theater popcorn, ice cream cones, and French fries. We even eat … Read More
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For a person who weighs 150 pounds, 10 minutes of lying on the couch watching TV burns about 15 calories. If you simply sat up, you would burn 20 calories. Walking in place for 10 minutes burns 40 calories, jogging bumps you to 90. Adding a leisurely 10-minute walk a day can burn 14,600 calories … Read More
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We’ve always known that a good meal releases the feel-good hormone dopamine and drives the desire to eat. Dopamine is released when we eat a food and a second time when food reaches the stomach. A recent study from Germany showed that when we crave a highly desired food it can suppress the stomach-induced dopamine … Read More
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Today we eat 300 more calories every day than we did 35 years ago. Because food is everywhere in our daily lives, we are encouraged to eat standing in line at the supermarket, at the drugstore, and while pumping gas in addition to all the coffee shops, quick service restaurants, food trucks and ice cream … Read More
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We have long known that people who work the night shift or rotate shifts find it easier to gain weight and harder to lose. Though we have been able to observe these differences, until now we did not know why this happened. A recent research study (Human Resting Energy Expenditure Varies with Circadian Phase ) … Read More
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Research published in the Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dieteticslooked at life-course theory to explain how obesity develops over time taking into account a person’s life events. For a person to get the right intervention to lose weight it is important to determine if changes in weight were the result of a dramatic … Read More
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Americans are obsessed with dieting but sadly few are actually slim. A study that followed over 3,300 high school girls in Ontario found some disturbing links to dieting. Amanda Raffoul, the lead researcher, said “Post-puberty changes often lead to weight gain among girls and there is incredible pressure from social media and elsewhere to obtain … Read More
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Researchers from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine put together evidence from over 100 research studies to show that being overweight is increasing the risk for cancer in young adults. Cancers typically seen in adults over age 50, are now being reported with increasing frequency in younger adults. In 2016, 1 in 10 new breast … Read More
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