The diet and weight loss connection

Diets for weight loss are so common, it seems that almost every day a new weight loss diet is being published and touted on the front cover of every magazine, and even on the six o’clock news. There are really no great secrets to the diet-weight loss connection, despite all the hype and the fact that diets for weight loss have become a multi-billion dollar industry in the past 2 decades or so. In fact, these diets are more than likely disguising the diet-weight loss connection by making...

What happens when you diet

We hear the word diet almost every day, but what actually happens in the body when we start to diet with the goal of trying to lose weight? Everything you eat is used by the body to fuel all of its essential functions, such as breathing, digestion and movement. The way that the body burns the calories in your diet is referred to as metabolism. The way that the body burns calories each day performing all of its basic functions, without exercise, is known as resting metabolism. Experts calculate...

Beware of Portion Distortion on a Diet

Beware of Portion Distortion on a Diet How large is a portion? A lot of us think we are reading the food labels correctly, or eating right in a healthy way, but there are a couple of things to keep in mind. First of all, how many servings are actually in the box/can/bottle? We all look at the number of calories on the label, but how often do we look at the serving size, or servings per package? For instance, small pizza about the diameter of the size of your hand may look as though it is a...

Dieting

Good nutritional habits aren’t just important for preventing disease, they can also help you watch your weight. Rates of overweight and obesity are higher than ever in the United States, and around the world. With all that we know about the importance of diet for our health and weight, why would this be the case? And with so many diet plans being sold as a successful way to lose weight, how it is possible that over seventy percent of Americans need to lose weight? According to the Centers for...

Butter versus margarine

Butter or margarine, which one is the healthier diet option for you? For many years, it has been assumed that margarine was better for you, because of less saturated fat. However, man-made trans-fats in margarine have been discovered to be far more dangerous to the human body than butter. In fact, trans-fats have been determined to be so dangerous that certain cities in America like New York City have banned them being used in restaurants. In this article we will compare the two so you can make...

Successful Diet Tips

There are many diets on the market, some more extreme than others in terms of what you can and can’t eat. However, there are a number of diet tips that can be applied to any weight loss plan, even if you want to just go it alone and shave a few calories from your diet here and there. Here are some tried and tested diet tips to help whittle away your waist and help the pounds fall away. -Many of us are trained to clean our plates. To diet easily without depriving yourself, look at the size...