Professional Diet

Posted on Tuesday, 26th October 2010 by Hanna

Feeding your family both nutritiously and inexpensively can be a challenge. Are you up for one?

When I posted a link to the Whole Foods Initiative, Feed Your Family of 5 for $25, many readers suggested that the $25 threshold wasn’t that big of a challenge. Readers felt that it would be more difficult to feed either a large family with that figure or spend less money. I decided to try to do both, and went to my local grocery store with a week of dinners planned. I gave myself a budget of $75 to feed 8 people for dinner. I

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Posted on Saturday, 23rd October 2010 by Hanna

MONDAY, Oct. 11 (HealthDay News) — Constant exposure to light at night may be linked to an increased risk for weight gain, according to a new animal study.

Ohio State University researchers found that mice exposed to dim light at night for eight weeks gained about 50% more weight than mice that were kept on a standard light-dark cycle.

“Although there were no differences in activity levels or daily consumption of food, the mice that lived with light at night were getting fatter than the others,” lead author Laura Fonken, a doctoral student in neuroscience, said in a university news release.

The mice exposed to light at night didn’t eat more than other mice.

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Posted on Saturday, 23rd October 2010 by Irvy

 
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18 Oct 2010 08:03 AM

I am in the middle of a big move and sometimes I think the stress of it all it trying to kill me. I think my body is literally breaking down from the worry, so wouldn’t it be great if we could just learn to make ourselves happy? Matthieu Ricard may have the key to that secret.

A Buddhist monk, Ricard is known as the “happiest man in the world.” It’s not because he always has a smile for the postman or waves at everyone he sees, Ricard has had MRIs done to shows he physically has a large level of positive emotions.

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Posted on Friday, 22nd October 2010 by admin

The diet and weight loss market is swamped with products promising weight loss. When a customer realises that the promises were somewhat unrealistic, they could be very disheartened. Many weight loss products promise overnight results with zero effort and no change to the average lifestyle. However there are a few weight loss products on the market that can be very effective when combining them with a healthy lifestyle. Such products have been tested using scientific methods and in-depth research and development as opposed to simply being rolled out without correct trials. Want some MORE?

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Posted on Wednesday, 20th October 2010 by Irvy

Frank Forencich, Change Your Body, Change the World: Reflections on Health and the Human Predicament. Exuberant Animal; 2010.

Stumptuous interview with Frank Forencich (right-click to download in mp3 format)

“Exuberant animal” is one of the best phrases I have ever heard to sum up a holistic approach to movement and wellness.

Animals, like us, live and die within a complex ecological and social context. Animals, like us, are their context — their bodies, as ours do, respond to light-dark, seasons, temperatures, and other environmental conditions. Anima

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Posted on Wednesday, 20th October 2010 by Hanna

A recent study showed that people who use their credit cards to buy food make poorer nutritional choices than those who pay with cash. The New York Times reports that using a credit card decreases the “pain of payment,” but also seems to make consumers feel less guilty about purchasing junk food.

“[W]hen consumers encounter vice products — such as cookies, cakes and pies — the emotive imagery and associated desire trigger impulsive purchase decisions,” the authors write. But “pain o

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