There’s absolutely no reason we can’t get at least five servings of wonderfully fresh and delicious fruits and vegetables during the growing season. Scientific evidence shows that we really can’t overdo it on fresh produce, so why not set a goal of enjoying servings of fruit and vegetables every day. Your body (and taste buds!) will thank you. Here are some favorite summertime fruits and veggies. Enjoy!… (more…)

Obesity researchers have come up with a novel ‘Top 10 List’. They have looked at causes of obesity that are not related to diet and exercise.

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Oh, no, here he comes again! He’s a little early today. I knew I shouldn’t have skipped our usual breakfast meeting. Now he’s going to start with the constant grumbling. Yep, there he goes and he’s only getting louder. I wish I could just make him go away! But as the Greek writer Plutarch once said, “It is a hard matter to argue with the belly, since it has no ears.”

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My husband and I went on the atkins diet several years ago. This is the first time my husband has done any dieting. I on the other hand have tried every diet know to mankind. Of course he dropped 10 pounds the first week, and could not understand why I am always saying that weight loss is difficult. I did lose 6 pounds the first week so I had to agree that the diet was working. The first two weeks were difficult to get used to eating only low carbohydrate foods.

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Many of the longest lasting diet crazes in recent years have been carb diets. Atkins was probably the most popular, but South Beach and others have gained in popularity.

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Time was, diabetes struck mostly in middle age. But in the past 8 years, the onset of diabetes among people 30 to 39 years of age has skyrocketed by 70 percent–enough for the American Diabetes Association to call it an epidemic.

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Yay to Nelly Furtado for admitting that life for a superstar mom is not “perfect” after baby. I’m referring to her comment that she was tired and did not lose weight while breastfeeding (not the overdrive sex-drive comment that, per my husband, would have made me the perfect post-partum mom. In his dreams!).

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