Cottage cheese should be something you choose to add to your nutritional program, not something that takes up residence on your legs and butt. As a trainer with more than 14 years of experience, I’ve heard the term cellulite described many different ways: cottage cheese, dimples, orange peel, gunk and blobby stuff.

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Everything is going along just right until something happens that throws a wrench into your weight plan. A family member has a major illness. You get a promotion. Your responsibilities at work feel humdrum. The holidays arrive in all their cookie-covered glory.

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It never fails. As soon as you start one diet, a better, trendier one comes along promising faster weight loss with even less effort than the diet you’ve just started. If that’s you, then you’re not alone.

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Drinking coffee appears to lower the risk of developing liver cancer, according to findings published in the medical journal Gastroenterology. “Data on potential beneficial effects of coffee on liver function and liver diseases have accrued over the last two decades,” Drs. Susanna C. Larsson and Alicja Wolk, from the Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, write.

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When you’re on vacation, it’s all too easy to abandon everything you know about eating healthfully — and then return home unable to button your pants.

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