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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Motivation is funny. For one thing, it always seems to leave right in the middle of a good weight-loss program. You were doing so well. Then one day, you lost your motivation and you just didn’t feel like working on it anymore. Soon you start noticing your tighter pants or shortness of breath, and you desperately want to get back to your diet.

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“I eat because I’m ravenously hungry.” “I eat because I’m bored, or lonely, or married or single.” “I eat because I pass a donut shop, or because I had too much to drink, or was at a party, or because my mother cooked and I didn’t want to disappoint her, or because I want to eat as much as my husband can, or I don’t want to deprive myself, or I’m depressed.”

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Don’t we all wish we could find some foods that would make us smarter? Unfortunately, we’re not there yet, but there are some things we are learning about the food/brain connection.

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Followers of low-carb diets such as the Atkins or the South Beach Diet may be paying an unexpected price: they could be slowing down the rate at which their brains process information.

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In the fight against America’s obesity epidemic, cities and states are taking a new tactic: Requiring chain restaurants to post nutrition information on their menus and menu boards.

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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.

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People in their 20s and 30s face shorter lives because of poor diets, experts said. And today’s children could have even shorter life spans. Prof Jay Olshansky, of the International Research Centre for Healthy Ageing and Longevity, forecast that within 50 years the life span in Western countries could drop by up to five years.

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