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7 Power Packed Tips to Help You Lose Weight & Gain Optimal Health
Can you imagine yourself with toned abs, buns, and thighs? What I’m about to reveal to you will forever change the way you look and feel. Did you know that what you’re eating could be making your body toxic? I mean so toxic to point that your...
Chronic Fatigue System - How Does it Affect Sleep?
Chronic Fatigue System - How does it affect sleep? Or to turn it around - How does improving your sleep lessen the symptoms of chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS)? Our aim here is to understand the connection between the two as it may be possible to...
Conjugated Linoleic Acid (CLA)
Conjugate Linoleic Acid (CLA) is a fatty acid found in dairy and meat products. CLA is not manufactured in our bodies so our intake of it comes from the foods mentioned or of course, supplementation. Studies have shown that CLA helps increase lean...
Dieting Effects – Midnight Snacking
Eating three square meals a day has been the standard for as long as anyone can remember. The dieting world and eating habit recommendations are changing slightly in recent years. The big changes come in the portions at mealtime and the snacks...
Finding the Elusive Complete-Protein Source
Images of “protein powder” containers with accomplished bodybuilders on their labels help inform consumers that protein is a critical macronutrient in strength training success. Yet what is sometimes lost in this protein-bodybuilding link is that...
Get Your Baby Off to a Healthy Start--Begin Before It's Born!
Did you know that every year nearly one million American women deliver babies without receiving adequate medical attention? Or that babies born to mothers who received no prenatal care are three times more likely to be born at low birth weight, and...
Help! Which Diet To Follow High Protein Or Low Carb?
Stop this diet insanity! We are bombarded by all type of diet propaganda trying to convince us that they are the solution to solve our overweight problems, from Atkins, to South Beach Diet, to Zone Diet, and all the way to extreme low carb diets....
“Low Carb Diets” on the way out...Taste is Back!!!
To see the “low carb” diets on the way out is a somewhat reflective process, not that I was an advocate of ketogenic diets at all unless you have Adolescent Epilepsy, but bringing the “low carb or ketogenic diet” into the forefront of our...
Review of the Changing Protein Requirements for Seniors
Youth, it is said, is wasted on the young. Too busy figuring life they hardly take the time to enjoy it. Fortunately, with medical research and scientific progress, lifespans have doubled over the last century. We can now start life at fifty and...
The composite facts about Rabbit Meat
1 Cholesterol level in rabbit meat is much lower than chicken, turkey, beef, pork. (Alabama A & M University 1989) 2 Rabbit is lower in % of fat than chicken, turkey, beef, and pork. (U S D A circular # 549) 3 Unsaturated fatty acids is 63% of...
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Diet: Are French Fries Really A Vegetable?
The government, nutritionists, doctors, and dietitians implore us to eat 5 servings of vegetables a day. Considering that a serving is only half a cup, a decent-sized side of vegetables and a big salad does it for the day.
But are we eating that consistently?
For the average American child, 25% of their intake of vegetables consists of french fries or potato chips. Adults eat an average of 4 servings of french fries per week. A small (are there any small servings still out there?) serving of french fries carries 187 calories - a bag a day is over 68,000 calories a year, almost 20 pounds of extra weight!
Is it any wonder that 15% of our children are obese and that the percentage is growing all the time?
For all the diet and health information that daily blares from our radios, televisions, and Internet portals, we are drowning in our own fat. We spend half our family food budget on eating out, primarily at fast food outlets, where the true nutritional and
caloric values of the offerings require the skill of a Sherlock Holmes to uncover.
Think what it could do for our collective waistlines if we simply deleted french fries from our diet and substituted real, live vegetables (a rare commodity in the fast food industry). We may yet be saved by the lowly green bean.
We can try to get the word out but the U. S. Department of Agriculture has only two million a year to spend on the cause and the food advertisers spend forty billion a year to convince us otherwise.
Oh well, maybe we didn't want to be slim anyway.
About the Author
Virginia Bola is a licensed psychologist and admitted diet fanatic specializing in the effects of attitudes and motivation on individual goals. She recently published a psychologically-based workbook, "Diet with an Attitude" which develops mental skills for permanent weight control. She can be reached at http://www.DietWithAnAttitude.com.
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