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What’s My Ideal Healthy Body Weight?
Are you the right weight? It’s a common question, and with so many varied opinions, it’s hard to know how to reach the right answer. One easy place to start...
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25 Holiday Weight Maintenance Tips
The holiday season is here, and with it come celebrations with family, friends, and lots of food. While the holidays are a time for joy, weight loss maintenance studies show...
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Top 10 Tips On Slimming Down For Good
Whether you’re looking to maintain a healthy weight or to shed those extra pounds and keep them off, with the overload of information and misinformation out there, it can be...
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Look to Your Partner to Change Bad Habits
Thanks to something called “assortative mating,” we tend to choose mates that have behaviors similar to our own. Too often, however, that means our bad habits are their bad habits,...
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What's New In Weight Loss
The topic of weight loss is never more popular than at the beginning of the year. Between overindulgent holidays and New Year’s resolutions or mission statements, it seems everybody is...
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2015’s Top Tools for Weight Loss
It’s easy to say you’ll eat healthier and exercise more, but it’s tough to actually get started and keep going. Sure, you can make exercise plans and collect recipes, but...
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Building Healthy Habits: Self-Control & Weight Loss
Take a look at your to-do list. If you’re like most people, chances are you’ve got quite a few things on there, but the most discouraging one is probably “lose...
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Early Antibiotics Exposure Leads to Obesity Later
When you’re born, you get everything from your parents – your genes, your name, and even your habits. But did you know that you also get your gut bacteria from...
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Forming Healthy Habits: How Long Does It Take?
Looking back at your new year’s resolutions, how long did it take to change your old ways? A day? A week? A month? Conventional wisdom seems to say 21 days,...
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Embrace the Cold: Shivering Aids Weight Loss
If this season’s cold temperatures have you feeling like you’re freezing your butt off, the silver lining to this extreme weather might be that you are actually freezing your butt...
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Obesity Risk Begins Before Kindergarten
While some people gain weight later in life for a variety of reasons, many remember struggling with weight from an early age. This comes as no surprise, as we acquire...
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Two-Thirds of 13-Year Old Girls Fear Weight Gain
For a teenager, appearance is everything. But while hairstyles, clothing, and accessories are easily changed, bodies are not. Body image issues, especially concerns about being or getting fat, plague adolescents...