Women's Fitness Guide

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While exercise is an essential part of any slim-down plan, eating the right foods is a surefire way to see results. Feeding your body with the right nutrients will help to put it into fat-burning mode, naturally boosting your metabolism and melting a

Healthy Food Guide

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1 There’s no need to fear fat. Enjoy healthy fats like extra-virgin olive oil, avocado, nuts and peanut butter. Yum! 2 Make plant foods the basis of your diet. Curries, vegie lasagne and creamy pumpkin soup are tasty winter favorites. 3 Save some o

Women's Fitness

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Healthy, sustainable weight loss is the holy grail if you want to lose extra, unwanted pounds. Faddy diets come and go, with many jumping on the bandwagon in a bid to shed weight as quickly as possible, but eating a balanced, nutrient-rich diet, doin

St. Louis Magazine

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“‘Mom brain,’ a phrase often used to describe the forgetfulness and brain fog that can sometimes come over women during motherhood, comes from lack of fat,” explains Wozniak, “especially if you’re breastfeeding, because you’re using more fat to breas

Healthy Food Guide

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1387kJ/332cal Protein 13.1g Total Fat 18.8g Sat Fat 3.9g Carbs 22.7g Sugars 6.8g Fibre 6.3g Sodium 300mg Calcium 262mg Iron 5.2mg Look for these nutrition panels that appear on all of our recipes! Your individual daily nutrition intake will vary

Men's Fitness UK

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All fruits and veg contain health-enhancing nutrients. But while the five-a-day mantra is good at encouraging people to eat more fresh produce in general, if you want to get the most out of your training, and support your fat-burning and muscle-build

Best Self Magazine

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— How healthy is your lifestyle?  With all the rush and stressfulness of campus life, students rarely ask themselves this question. Most young people neglect their health in pursuit of success until they finally realize that they are on the wrong pat

What Doctors Don't Tell You Australia/NZ

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The evolutionarily correct diet is the paleo-ketogenic (PK) diet. It’s a non-negotiable part of my treatment plan. Paleo means no dairy and no gluten grains; ketogenic means that the body is powered by fat and fiber, not sugar and starch. All our ene

Women's Fitness

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1 Get gut healthy. Your gut microbiome does more than digest food. It produces hormones, influences circadian rhythm and modulates inflammation. Keep it healthy with fermented foods such as yoghurt, kefir, sauerkraut and kimchi. 2 Cut some carbs. Th

Woman

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‘Slashing your fat intake to lose weight can backfire, as fat makes food more psychologically satisfying,’ says nutritionist Angela Dowden. Reduced-fat foods can also be high in sugar. ‘Choosing the right type of fats is important, though – try to mi

New Zealand Listener

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I’m starting to notice the inevitable signs of ageing. What foods are best to help maintain healthy skin? New Zealand’s UV (ultraviolet) levels are much higher than those in the UK, the ancestral home of most sunburnt Kiwis. Those with paler skin are

Men's Fitness South Africa

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The simplest solution to a problem is often the best. That applies even when the problem is losing weight — because how many times in your life have you heard of a simpler solution than “just drink a glass of water”? A study in the journal of Obesity

Men's Health

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MAYBE YOU’VE SEEN the ads. They’re for a simple handheld device that measures and claims to help you “hack” your metabolism so it can be more “fit” and “flexible.” But what does that even mean? Is your metabolism so easily manipulated? Or is this met

Women's Fitness

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Having a poor mindset where food is concerned can hinder your weight-loss goals. However much you want to lose weight and improve your health, if you don’t have your head in the right place, you won’t achieve your aims. You may do well for a few days

Woman

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Hello! When Woman asked me to write about weight loss myths, I was very excited and punched  the air. How naïve of me, however, to think that in 900 words I could turn around years of falsehoods that have misled us for decades. But I’ll give it a go.

Futurity

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Foods that have both fat and carbohydrates are more rewarding, calorie for calorie, than foods with either energy source alone, according to new research. Fatty foods like cheese trigger one pathway of signals to reward centers in the brain while car

Improve Your Health

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People with naturally high levels of these fat-busting bacteria had smaller waistlines, lower blood sugar, insulin and cholesterol and were able to lose weight more easily than people with low levels. Polyphenols from grapes and cranberries were show

Chat

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Constant grazing is one of the main reasons health experts think that we have an obesity problem. ‘Try to stick to three balanced meals a day, without snacks, to help keep your weight under control and give your digestion a rest,’ says GP Dr Melanie

Fairlady

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White toast is on breakfast plates every morning, but unlike healthier wholemeal bread, it has a high glycaemic index, meaning it causes blood sugar to shoot up. The brain thinks it has lots of energy and orders a large portion of it to be stored as

You South Africa

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THIS year I’m going to eat better, exercise more and get rid of those extra kilos. Sound familiar? It’s a common new year’s resolution. And it’s also pretty common that by the time February rolls around, most people’s motivation is flagging. You’re n

Good Health

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As humans, our bodies have evolved with the seasons to eat heavily in the harvest season (autumn) and keep weight on in the winter to protect from the cold and lack of food. We naturally crave warm foods and the fats to protect our organs and skin fr

Woman

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Grazing – it’s a funny old word, slightly smacks of laziness and boredom – but for the purposes of today’s column we’re going to look at whether it’s better to eat little and often or to stick with three bigger meals. This depends, of course, on you

CosBeauty Magazine

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Most of us know someone who has dropped the kgs on a high-fat, low-carb diet such as Keto, Atkins or Dukan. But even if you haven’t eaten a slice of bread since 1997, it doesn’t necessarily mean you’re getting enough of the important stuff. Cutting o

Good

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For many health-conscious people out there, the path to wellness can often mean isolating symptoms and treating them individually. If we want to lose weight, we focus on calories in, calories out. If we are tired, we turn to coffee to get us through.

Woman's Weekly Living Series

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THE TRUTH: The fact is, constant grazing is one of the main reasons health experts think that we have an obesity problem. And our obsession with snacking has spawned a multimillion-pound industry that encourages us to eat even more between meals. Try

Eat Well

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Food is the subject of a lot of misconceptions, some of them personal and some of them more widely held. Perhaps because we engage with food every day we form strong opinions about what we will or will not eat; our society encourages this. But it doe

Woman

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We all know that the content of what we eat is vital to our health, and helps our bodies repair, grow and heal. For example, the protein in fish, meat, beans and pulses feeds our muscles, bones and cartilage, helps regulate hormones, and oxygenates o

Women's Fitness Guide

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Do you feel bamboozled by the lingo used by food manufacturers to sell their ‘healthy’ products? Food labels have long been attacked for being confusing, but they can also be misleading. For instance, under European Union law, a ‘low-fat’ product mus

India Today

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Today, with rapid urbanization and changing lifestyle, dietary patterns have shifted towards pre-packed foods, frozen foods, fast food including fried foods and desserts etc., which are generally high in salt, sugar, fats, and even trans fats. In Ind

Men's Fitness Guide

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Nothing will hamper your progress more than overindulging in processed foods. Regularly eating the refined carbs and sugars that form the basis of most processed snacks, baked goods and fast foods will sap your energy levels and cause fat-storing blo