'Flat Belly Diet': a review of the hot new diet book--will it be your ticket to weight loss in 2009?
Well, well, well; it's December 31st and people all across the fruited plain are engaging in a time-honored American tradition --making resolutions to lose weight.
Every year sees its own crop of hip new diet plans (remember Atkins? The South Beach Diet? The Zone?); this year's frontrunner looks Liz Vaccariello's
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Gym bags that hold everything a woman needs but will also fit inside her locker can be hard to find. REI kept those things in mind in designing the Balance Gym Bag, $59.50, made from recycled plastic bottles. It has a large zipper opening on the top, a side panel for a 1-liter water bottle, compartments for shoes and clothes, mesh vents to air things out and a removable shower caddy. A zippered stash pocket keeps your keys and phone handy. At REI Read the rest of this entry »
Published Thursday, December 11, 2008
When you look at your food, some ingredients are easy to see. For example, there is obviously milk in your cereal, cheese on your pizza and peanut butter on your toast.
But your meals are also filled with ingredients you can’t see. And you might be surprised to learn just how much those hidden items affect your health.
Salt is a perfect example of an ingredient that you might not notice, even when you Read the rest of this entry »
As a 30-something, I hereby resolve to sleep more in 2009. And published today in the
, a predictor of
. In fact, the study showed that one extra hour each night lowered the estimated odds of having such gunk in the vasculature by 33 percent. According to the study authors, getting that extra hour brings a benefit, cardiovascularly speaking, similar to that of lowering systolic blood pressure (the top number in the blood pressure ratio) by 17 Read the rest of this entry »
07:55 PM CST on Tuesday, December 30, 2008
The clock's ticking on 2008. Time to rid the house of corn chips and good intentions and get ready for a brand spankin' new year.
Let's go over the resolution list again, shall we?
No muffins. No pizza. No ice cream. No beer. No chocolate. No nitrates. No head cheese. No white rice. No T-bones.
Exercise an hour a day. Lift weights constantly. Follow Atkins. Follow South Beach. Read the rest of this entry »
Do you need to share your diet?
One of the crazy things about being on a diet, and losing weight, is that everyone around begins to feel that they should offer advice and comments. Have you heard any of the following:
1. "Should you really be eating that baked potato? It's full of carbs you know? Carbs are the enemy!"
2. "How can you eat that rabbit food? Just eat normal food, but on saucer, then you can eat what you like!"
3. "Come on, one Read the rest of this entry »
Have you ever had a paper cut that went from mildly annoying to painfully inflamed, robbing you of the use of a digit? The inflammation is a trigger to your body's immune response, sending white blood cells to clear out the infection and damaged tissue. The same thing can happen within the body, especially the digestive tract.
If you suffer from any number of diseases, including heart disease, hypertension, allergies or chronic digestive problems, Read the rest of this entry »
Your infant has been crying - a lot. That's what babies do. But how do you know if your baby has colic? I asked Dr. Charles Shubin, director of pediatrics at Mercy FamilyCare, a division of Family Health Centers of Baltimore, to provide today's Consult.
Colic, Shubin explained, is not a defined medical disease but a diagnosis that's made when doctors and parents have ruled out other reasons for a baby's discomfort. But here are some of the signs Read the rest of this entry »
There are fewer things more dreaded than the New Year's resolution.
For millions of Americans each year, that means deciding to drop a few--or tens --of pounds. It also means picking a diet from a number of confusing programs: low-fat, low-carb, high-protein, pre-made, points-counting, and so on. The options can be exhausting and once committed, it is hard to start over if the diet is less than compatible with your habits--and your bank account. Read the rest of this entry »