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Training the Brain by Ritualizing Practices Is Key To Weight Release

July 1st, 2010 at 08:19am Under Diet Advice

Behavioral psychology studies have confirmed that it takes 21-30 days repeating patterns of behavior for the neural-pathways in the brain to organize and form what we refer to as a “habit”. This occurs in a region of the brain known as the “basal ganglia”. This is also the area of the brain where “procedural learning” [...]

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Obligated to Eat

June 24th, 2010 at 09:31am Under Diet Advice

In almost every culture food is a gesture of goodwill. A person extends a plate of food – an offering of friendship or love. I can see the Italian grandma right now in my mind, “Eat! Manga! Manga!” There is a restaurant that my wife and I used to go to regularly – we got [...]

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Iced Tea: Good Food or Bad Food?

June 23rd, 2010 at 10:18am Under Diet Advice

Compared to soda, iced tea is a much healthier way to quench your thirst this Summer. But when trying to cool down, think twice before pouring yourself a tall glass of iced tea. One cup of Nestea lemon iced tea has over 21 grams of sugar, and one can of Lipton Brisk tea has 18 [...]

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Guest Post: 5 Ways to Burn More Fat

June 22nd, 2010 at 01:41pm Under Diet Advice

This guest post is adapted from the new book The Happy Body by Aniela and Jerzy Gregorek. Want to increase your metabolic rate so you burn more fat, and burn it up faster? Here are five ways to do it. Make every third hour a fat-burning hour. Time your meals so that you eat every [...]

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Guest Post: Is Gluten-Free Food Good or Bad?

June 22nd, 2010 at 01:33pm Under Diet Advice

This guest blog post comes from Barbara Keller, author of the cookbook Quick and Easy Gluten Free Recipes for Children and a registered nurse with Celiac disease. For people who can’t eat gluten because of Celiac disease and gluten intolerance, gluten free food is essential.  There is no choice.  But the value of these substitute [...]

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What Having a Food Plan Triggers

June 17th, 2010 at 07:27am Under Diet Advice

It is important to have a plan for the foods we put into our bodies. I have a group of Weight Release Program participants who are in the 10th week of my 12 week process. Several of them have been “tripping” on the food plan. They did a lot of work preparing to make these [...]

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Smoothies: Good Food or Bad Food?

June 11th, 2010 at 10:16am Under Diet Advice

Smoothies are a great way to get fruit and nutrients into your diet. However, when you order a smoothie, don’t think you’re always doing your body well. For example, a 16-ounce Super Yumberry smoothie at Jamba Juice has 48 grams of sugar and a 20-ounce Cranberry Supreme smoothie at Smoothie King has 554 calories. Yowzah! [...]

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How Negative Thinking Can Make You Fat

May 20th, 2010 at 02:02pm Under Diet Advice

A recently published study in the journal NeuroImage showed that when study subjects engaged in self-criticism or self-blame, their brain activity changed in the regions strongly correlated with depression, eating disorders, and anxiety. This illustrates how over identifying with one’s faults and mistakes can put a person at risk for emotional over eating and carrying [...]

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FaveDiets.com Presents: Freeman Michaels on What it Means to be Overweight

May 14th, 2010 at 02:25pm Under Diet Advice

Featured FaveDiets.com Contributor Freeman Michaels, America’s #1 Weight Release Expert and Coach, offers some additional thoughts on what it means to be overweight.

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What Does it Mean to Be Overweight?

May 13th, 2010 at 10:50am Under Diet Advice

Finding Meaning Is Important - Perspective In Weight Release Many people today consider a personal quest to probe life looking for “meaning” to be a rather unnecessary undertaking. In today’s fast-moving culture, questions, such as “what gives life meaning?” and “what meaning can we derive from life’s experiences?” are often ignored. In our secular, fact-oriented, and scientific society, [...]

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