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Food and Nutrition
Healthy Dairy-Free Eating
(HealthNewsDigest.com) - 100 Delicious Recipes from Breakfast to a Late-Night Snack by an Expert Team of Chef and Dietician Mini C with Tanya Haffner, RD
Feb 2, 2010 - 7:47:31 PM
Heart Health
Healthy Eating for Your Heart
(HealthNewsDigest.com) - Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the number one killer in the world, with twelve million deaths each year, a figure that is increasing annually?
Feb 2, 2010 - 7:42:43 PM
Book Review
The Big Breakfast Diet
(HealthNewsDigest.com) - In Dr. Daniela Jakubowicz’s BIG Breakfast study, women who began their day with a large, protein packed breakfast that included a moderate amount of sweets and starches lost dramatically more weight and kept it off over time than women who ate a very low-carb breakfast.
Jan 25, 2010 - 7:25:08 PM
Food/Nutrition Columnist
Sorting Out Carbohydrates
(HealthNewsDigest.com) - Carbohydrates, carbs, complex carbs, simple carbs, good carbs, bad carbs – help! In the last decade carbs have become a misunderstood nutrient. We went from high carb to low carb to being told to choose specific carbs. Before you can shop and eat wisely, you need to understand carbs.
Jan 24, 2010 - 1:02:19 AM
Diet
Sticking to Diets is About More than Willpower
(HealthNewsDigest.com) - BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- Many people think the success of dieting, seemingly a national obsession following the excesses and resolutions of the holiday season, depends mostly on how hard one tries -- on willpower and dedication. While this does matter, new research has found that a much more subtle aspect of the diets themselves can also have a big influence on the pounds shed -- namely, the perceived complexity of a diet plan's rules and requirements.
Jan 12, 2010 - 9:41:43 AM
Diet
Gastroenterologists Study Mind/Body Techniques for Treating Celiac Disease
(HealthNewsDigest.com) - CHICAGO – For adults and children diagnosed with celiac disease, the only treatment is a gluten-free diet, which can be very challenging. Gastroenterologists at Rush University Medical Center are conducting a new study to see if mind/body techniques could help patients with celiac disease adhere to the very strict diet.
Jan 11, 2010 - 4:38:02 PM
Diet
Denise’s Daily Dozen - The Easy, Every Day Program to Lose Up to 12 Pounds in Two Weeks
(HealthNewsDigest.com) - For more than 25 years, Denise Austin has helped millions of people of all ages lose weight with her motivating advice and tips, easy-to-follow exercises and workouts, and healthy recipes. But Denise is not only a fitness icon, she’s also a wife and a mother who understands what it’s like to work full-time and juggle all of the responsibilities of a home and family. Yet at age 52, she says that she is healthier, has more energy, and feels stronger than she did at 22. What’s her secret?
Dec 24, 2009 - 8:06:23 PM
Book Review
It's Not a Diet - It's Creative Eating
(HealthNewsDigest.com) - THIS is CREATIVE Eating, a new concept of eating, thinking and behaving leading to permanent weight loss. Follow June through her personal journey of transformation with her inspirational story. Follow her through her professional experience as a fitness trainer, weight loss specialist and behavior specialist, with all the tools of her program, her best weight loss & fitness tips, recipes, menus and more.
Dec 6, 2009 - 12:03:43 AM
Diet
10 Ways To Minimize Calories & Maximize Enjoyment
(HealthNewsDigest.com)-This time of year, seasonal favorites such as pumpkin pie, homemade fudge, eggnog, and sugar cookies can tempt even the most committed to stray from their healthy eating plans. For those also finding it hard to fit physical activity into their hectic routines, the result can be weight gain-and loss of motivation.
Nov 13, 2009 - 7:49:23 PM
Diet
Remembering "It's Just a Meal" Will Help You Keep Unwanted Pounds Off This Holiday Season
(HealthNewsDigest.com) — Making sure you get right back on your weight loss plan after a big holiday meal is what will help you maintain your weight this holiday season.
Nov 12, 2009 - 9:38:08 AM
Diet
I Can’t Believe I Ate the Whole Thing!
(HealthNewsDigest.com) - The comments we hear around the Thanksgiving table are as traditional as the food. “Honey, this is the best turkey you’ve ever made. Please pass the potatoes and gravy again.” “I can’t eat another bite or I swear I’ll explode.” “Alright, just a little sliver of pie then.” After dinner people are sprawled out in front of the television, occasionally groaning or dozing off.
Oct 30, 2009 - 9:43:35 AM
Diet
Doctor’s Orders: 101 Medically Proven Tips for Losing Weight
(HealthNewsDigest.com) - Each year, millions of overweight people struggle to lose weight by following diets, attempting rigorous exercise regimens, and white-knuckling their way through temptation and fatigue. While some succeed at losing weight for a short time, most eventually end up even heavier than they were before they started dieting.
Oct 28, 2009 - 12:26:19 PM
Diet
Ice Cream May Target the Brain Before Your Hips
(HealthNewsDigest.com) - DALLAS - Blame your brain for sabotaging your efforts to get back on track after splurging on an extra scoop of ice cream or that second burger during Friday night's football game.
Sep 14, 2009 - 11:13:51 AM
Diet
Nutrisystem Expands Program
(HealthNewsDigest.com) - Horsham, PA – Nutrisystem, Inc., a leading provider of weight management products and services that are delivered directly to the customers’ doors, announced that its popular 28-Day Nutrisystem Select program now includes an additional week of delicious fresh-frozen entrees - all for the same low monthly cost. (Pictured: Pro Football Hall of Fame quarterback Dan Marino and Michael J. McCurdy, Publisher of HealthNewsDigest.com. Dan Marino is also well-known for role as Nutrisystem spokesperson for over two years
Aug 22, 2009 - 11:37:09 AM
Diet
Are You Really Addicted To Caffeine?
(HealthNewsDigest.com)-There's a lot of misinformation brewing about caffeine, particularly when it comes to effects from consuming too many energy drinks or other caffeinated beverages.
Aug 18, 2009 - 2:01:07 PM
Diet
Friendship Influences Eating Behavior, Particularly When Friends are Overweight
(HealthNewsDigest.com) - BUFFALO, N.Y. -- A new study of childhood obesity in the United States has found that some social factors, such as the presence of friends, may put overweight youths at greater risk of overeating.
Aug 3, 2009 - 3:00:44 PM
Diet
Teaching Your Belly to Feel Full
(HealthNewsDigest.com) - NEW YORK -- Why do so many diets start successfully, only to crash and burn? Why is it that no matter how hard dieters try, keeping the weight off seems impossible? Dr. Louis Aronne explains in his new book, "THE SKINNY: On Losing Weight Without Being Hungry" (Broadway Books), written with Alisa Bowman, that the key is your body's chemistry, not willpower. His solution: teaching your body to stop craving food and feel full sooner.
Jun 12, 2009 - 2:57:26 PM
Diet
Jury Still Out on Foods, Additives, and ADHD
(HealthNewsDigest.com) - BOSTON—Diet alone probably isn’t the driving force behind the behavioral and cognitive symptoms that plague children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). But recent studies have renewed interest in whether certain foods and additives might affect particular symptoms in a subset of children with ADHD, reports the June 2009 issue of the Harvard Mental Health Letter.
May 28, 2009 - 11:00:55 AM
Diet
Tree Top Trim Adds New Slim Cans
(HealthNewsDigest.com) - SELAH-Wash. – Tree Top trim®, the only functional fruit beverage of its kind in the juice aisle, takes on a new look. Trim is now available in new, svelte 8-ounce cans at local Sam’s Club retailers.
May 20, 2009 - 12:20:50 PM
Diet
The Skinny on Cleansing Diets
(HealthNewsDigest.com) - Summer is right around the corner and it’s about this time of year when most people start thinking about getting into shape. Diet and exercise are key to dropping those extra pounds, but over the past several years, something called cleansing or detoxifying has gained momentum as an effective way to shed unwanted weight.
May 18, 2009 - 12:52:14 PM
Diet
Diet Myths: Understanding The Information
(HealthNewsDigest.com)-Each year, millions of Americans follow the latest and greatest diet trends and widely publicized information in their quest to lose weight and manage their diets. Unfortunately, many of the most common diet "truths" turn out to be false.
May 7, 2009 - 5:37:29 PM
Diet
Diet Myths: Understanding The Information
(HealthNewsDigest.com)-Each year, millions of Americans follow the latest and greatest diet trends and widely publicized information in their quest to lose weight and manage their diets. Unfortunately, many of the most common diet "truths" turn out to be false.
May 1, 2009 - 2:37:10 PM
Diet
Weight Watchers(R) Expands Licensed Food Categories
(HealthNewsDigest.com) - NEW YORK, -- Consumers have a strong desire to feel more in control of their lives during times when finances feel out of control. According to the latest Yankelovich Monitor, however, there is a significant gap between how much consumers value control and their ability to achieve it.
Mar 19, 2009 - 10:54:37 AM
Diet
Ancient "Superfood" Promotes Healthy Endurance
(HealthNewsDigest.com)-A growing number of people are finding that an ancient "superfood" has a prominent place in a modern, healthful dietary regimen.
Mar 7, 2009 - 9:21:30 AM
Diet
Does Love Make Us Fat?
(HealthNewsDigest.com) - FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla., -- Recently, the weight-loss experts at eDiets surveyed members to find out if being in a relationship grew their waistlines as well as their hearts.
Feb 10, 2009 - 11:49:58 AM
Diet
Digestive Disease Makes Food Unbearable For Sufferers
(HealthNewsDigest.com)-Imagine having difficulty swallowing every time you eat. Imagine it being so bad that the food becomes blocked by an inflamed esophagus, the organ that carries food from the mouth to the stomach. This is how some people suffering from a condition known as eosinophilic esophagitis (EoE) live every day.
Feb 7, 2009 - 10:06:13 AM
Diet
Antioxidant Cherry 7UP
(HealthNewsDigest.com) - Just in time for the perfect Valentine's Day toast, the 7UP brand is romancing consumers with its latest creation-Cherry 7UP Antioxidant. The pink-hued, crisp and refreshing beverage combines the delicious flavor of 7UP with a hint of cherry flavor and the bonus of antioxidant Vitamin E.
Feb 2, 2009 - 5:21:16 PM
Diet
Kidney-Friendly Foods for Super Bowl(R) XLIII
(HealthNewsDigest.com) - EL SEGUNDO, Calif., -- DaVita Inc., a leading provider of kidney care services for those diagnosed with chronic kidney disease (CKD) and kidney failure, offers kidney patients a chance to enjoy the benefits of Super Bowl Sunday treats with kidney-friendly recipes available on The DaVita Diet Helper(TM) at www.davita.com.
Jan 31, 2009 - 11:19:48 AM
Diet
Oysters - A Delicious Food That May Help Save Lives
(HealthNewsDigest.com)-Many people will be happy to hear the latest news about the health-giving properties of a favorite food.
Jan 27, 2009 - 6:57:43 PM
Diet
Low-carbohydrate Diet Burns More Excess Liver Fat than Low-calorie Diet
(HealthNewsDigest.com) - DALLAS – Jan. 20, 2009 – People on low-carbohydrate diets are more dependent on the oxidation of fat in the liver for energy than those on a low-calorie diet, researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have found in a small clinical study.
Jan 20, 2009 - 10:03:36 AM
Diet
Craving Hope
(HealthNewsDigest.com) - For all the emphasis that society places on weight and the excitement over the latest fad diets, countless people find it hard if not impossible to lose
weight and keep it off.
Jan 14, 2009 - 3:46:32 PM
Diet
Green Drinks
(HealthNewsDigest.com) - Every month green-minded people in 460-plus cities around the world meet up at informal social gatherings called Green Drinks. Started in 1989 in London by Edwin Datschefski and friends, the concept has spread like wildfire, with some 350 different Green Drinks chapters worldwide today.
Jan 14, 2009 - 3:41:11 PM
Diet
The Complete Beck Diet for Life
(HealthNewsDigest.com) - With over twenty-five years experience as a psychologist and diet coach Dr. Judith S. Beck, Director of the Beck Institute for Cognitive Therapy and Research and New York Times best-selling author of The Beck Diet Solution is back with THE COMPLETE BECK DIET FOR LIFE:
Jan 6, 2009 - 12:35:54 PM
Diet
The Instinct Diet
(HealthNewsDigest.com) - Millions of Americans make the New Year’s resolution every year to shed those extra pounds. We try the latest fad diets offering quick weight loss, or sigh and resign ourselves to the hard slog of counting calories or points. The end result is always the same: We lose a bit (if we’re lucky), get frustrated, give up, and then gain the weight right back again.
Jan 5, 2009 - 7:08:50 PM
Diet
Younger (Thinner) You Diet
(HealthNewsDigest.com) - Everything you know about dieting is wrong. We’ve been taught that controlling your weight begins and ends with the stomach, and that dieting is all about creating a better ratio of “calories in versus calories out.” But where do you think this metabolism takes place? The truth is that your stomach doesn’t control your weight at all. Weight loss occurs in your brain.
Jan 5, 2009 - 6:57:52 PM
Diet
Finally Thin
(HealthNewsDigest.com) - Kim Bensen knows about weight loss. And weight gain. For years she was a successful entrepreneur, with her own advertising and marketing company, a loving husband, and four beautiful children. But Kim was morbidly obese, eating herself to death and falling off the dieting wagon over and over again.
Jan 5, 2009 - 1:13:52 PM
Diet
Troublesome Restless Legs Can be Brought Under Control
(HealthNewsDigest.com) - Simple changes in diet and exercise can help relieve some of the frustrating symptoms of restless leg syndrome, says a movement disorders specialist at UT Southwestern Medical Center.
Dec 30, 2008 - 6:42:54 PM
Diet
Caffeine May Be Good For Your Brain
(HealthNewsDigest.com)-Your morning cup of coffee may be more than just an eye-opener. Research has confirmed that sleep-deprived individuals have improved memory and reasoning after consuming caffeine.
Dec 15, 2008 - 5:51:00 PM
Diet
CU Statement on FDA Position on Mercury From Fish Consumption
(HealthNewsDigest.com) - Consumers Union is deeply disturbed that the Food and Drug Administration is contemplating relaxing its fish-consumption advice for vulnerable populations such as women of child-bearing age, pregnant women, nursing mothers and infants.
Dec 14, 2008 - 2:10:08 PM
Diet
How to Celebrate the Holiday Season without Gaining Weight
(HealthNewsDigest.com) - The holidays are a time to give thanks and gather together with family and friends. Those gatherings can sometimes be difficult for people who are trying to control their weight since most parties include food—and often lots of it!
Dec 10, 2008 - 6:33:48 PM
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