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Snacking Well – Popcorn

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The nutritional profile of popcorn has seen its ups and down over the years.  Plain, air-popped popcorn has roughly 30 calories a full gram of fiber per cup, which makes it a very popular and healthy snack food.  Where popcorn has been maligned is in movie theaters.  Movie theater popcorn is a nutritional wasteland at nearly 1000 calories a tub. So, is it good, or is it bad? If you … Continue reading

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Dieting: Is Willpower Alone Enough?

If you had to guess, how many people do you think are able to lose weight and keep it off using willpower alone?  What would you say?  Is it 10%, 25%, 50%, or 75%?  The answer may surprise you. Sadly, only approximately 10% of people, who want to make healthy changes to their diet, are able to lose weight and keep it off for more than two years.  This rate … Continue reading

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Success & Failure of the Modern Diet

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One doesn’t have to go back in history, maybe 100 to 150 years, to a time when vitamin deficiencies were rampant and food was relatively scarce.  Fast forward to today.  You see that for the most part, vitamin deficiencies of the past are nearly all gone.  However, as a side effect, we are left with the problem of an overabundance of calories. The success of the modern diet is the … Continue reading

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Calorie Burn & Conditioning

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The trend in the fitness industry has been to focus on caloric expenditure during exercise.  As proof, you see trendy little boot camps springing up all over the place.  However, if the focus of your exercise is to optimize safety, to promote continued performance, and to lose weight in the long term, an emphasis simply on calorie burn is short sighted. Strength and conditioning (stamina) programs should focus on attaining … Continue reading

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Cut Back on High Density Foods

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Managing the amount of energy dense food that you eat is a key factor in weight loss and weight maintenance.  Energy dense foods tend to be high in fat and sugar.  They are termed energy dense, because they pack a lot of calories into a small amount of food. Research has shown a positive relationship between these foods and your body mass index, which is a measure of how heavy … Continue reading

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