It’s resolution time again, and first on your list is to lose weight and eat more healthfully. But how exactly do you go about doing that — and how do you keep yourself from becoming a resolution dropout once Feb. 1 rolls around? To draw up a list of the absolute best diet and nutrition resolutions, I consulted weight loss experts around the country.

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Holidays bring family and friends together to celebrate traditions and spread good cheer. They also bring lots of opportunities for socializing, eating, and drinking. Even the most disciplined people struggle with temptation during the holiday season.

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Have you ever tried to diet your way to a better body? I have a slight hunch that you have, and I’m willing to bet that at some point you terminated that diet. Any mention of the word “diet” will leave most people with awful memories: restrictive, boring, and painful sound accurate. Why I ask? Why? Simply put, a diet is not a solution, it’s a marketing gimmick. They’re all temporary and short sighted, setting you up for failure.

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Renée Zellweger claims her stressful life keeps her thin. The super-slim star - who had to pile on the pounds for the hit ‘Bridget Jones’ movies - likes to hit it hard in the gym to forget about her worries and upcoming roles. Renée told BANG Showbiz:

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Certain fruits and vegetables may reduce your risk of cancer and may even help stop cancer in its tracks, according to new research. While there’s not really an “anticancer diet,” eating plenty of certain fruits and vegetables can help reduce your risk of getting cancer, researchers reported today at the American Association for Cancer Research’s Sixth Annual International Conference on Frontiers in Cancer Prevention Research in Philadelphia.

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Pick a fruit, any fruit, and you know it’s good for you. It’s the same with vegetables and many whole grain foods. They deserve their nutritional halos.

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If your winter plans include snow sports, like skiing and snowboarding, be sure to take along a bottle of apple-cider vinegar. The acid in the vinegar has a healing quality that can relieve minor skin irritations. Use it to take the sting out of sunburned or windburned skin and encourage healing.

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French fries, America’s favorite vegetable, isn’t really French at all. According to Wikipedia, Thomas Jefferson is attributed to coining the phrase. Jefferson had his French chef, Honore Julien, deep fry the small pieces of raw potatoes. Belgium is actually the country best known for these delicacies with recipes dating back to 1680.

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You bend and turn, twist and burn, all in an effort to lose that gut, but your pooch persists. But what can you do? Look at the food you’re feeding your body and replace some of the belly busters with slimming stomach staples (as in crucial diet ingredients, not invasive surgery fasteners).

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According to experts, the walkstations, which resemble treadmills with computers attached, represent a bold new step by the medical community in an effort to fight the rising obesity epidemic.

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