Nutritionist Susan Burke weighs in on five simple changes you can make. Doing these can lead to weight loss without really trying.

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Thin is still in, at least for the moment. But I believe there’s a difference between what looks good and what feels good to men. And what looks good to them may not look good to us. Many people are turned off by extremes — extremely heavy, extremely thin, extremely tall and extremely short.

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Eating a rich diet filled with leafy green vegetables may cut heart damage in the event of heart attack, a study suggests.

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While there is some controversy about whether we all need eight glasses of fluid a day, the popularity of bottled water shows no let up. It’s healthful, it’s refreshing, and bottles are easy to carry. Despite the benefits of this trend, an increasing number of cities have enacted a ban on bottled waters, not because of the water, but to avoid the tremendous costs of eliminating the bottles.

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Take avocados and peanuts, for example. Not too long ago they wore a big scarlet “F” for too much fat. Yet as peanuts and avocados sat languishing on many people’s bad-for-you lists, researchers discovered that the fat in these two foods, mostly the monounsaturated kind, is extremely good for the heart–and for health in general.

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Emotional eaters — people who eat when they are lonely or blue — tend to lose the least amount of weight and have the hardest time keeping it off, U.S. researchers said on Thursday. They said the study may explain why so many people who lose weight gain it all back.

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Just because you are heading down the road to weight loss doesn’t mean you have to steer clear of the drive-thru. Even when you are committed to following a healthy eating plan, it is still possible to ride in the fast-food lane. In fact, given the hectic pace of modern life, it is almost unrealistic to think that people won’t have to resort to eating take-out or convenience food from time to time. “Fast food is not something you want to consume every day,” warns eDiets Director of Nutritional Services Pamela Ofstein.

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Bulimia effects are wide-ranging and many bulimia effects are quite different from the effects of other eating disorders. Bulimia nervosa usually gets it’s start when someone is told by another person or group of people that this is a very easy way to lose weight and control weight. For the most part it will start at a young age when someone is in school.

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