A great article in The Independent titled: Use your noodle: The real Chinese diet is so healthy it could solve the West’s obesity crisis – Healthy Living, Health & Wellbeing – The Independent. I encourage you to read the article. It provides a great list of Diet tips. Some I agree with some I don’t, […]
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Weight Loss – Back to the Basics
I recently read a ChangeThis manifesto, The New Time Management: Simply Focus on the Fundamentals, and Toss Away the Tips, By Francis Wade. Francis describes 7 fundamentals he believes are critical for any professional to master Time Management. He makes the comparison to athletes who have to refocus on the fundamentals. For example: Tiger Woods […]
I was looking around the internet today at people’s reactions to the recent food diary news. Umm asked a great question about food logs: Do you have any tips for making the journal work instead of having it just create more work? I responded on her blog, but I thought it might be helpful for […]
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Lose Weight and Mosquito Bites
Mosquitoes Attracted to Obese Big is definitely beautiful in the eyes of a mosquito. Research shows that obese people or even those who are overweight may be more likely to attract mosquitoes and, therefore, be subjected to more mosquito bites than those who are not obese. This does not bode well for people in the […]
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Dear Food Diary: Please Help Me Lose Weight
Using a food diary to track what you eat may be the secret to weight loss. New research published in the August issue of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, shows that keeping a food diary can double a person’s weight loss. “The more food records people kept, the more weight they lost,” said lead […]
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5 Summer Weight Loss Strategies
Summer is the easiest time of year to lose weight, especially for those of us who endure long, cold winters. With summer’s abundance of fresh fruit and vegetables, not to mention, warmer weather, there’s no excuse for us not to be eating healthy and exercising. Adopting these simple weight-loss strategies into your summer plans may […]
Just another reason to eat healthy and exercise. As reported by Will Dunham from Reuters, Dean Ornish conducted some studies on men with prostate cancer who elected against surgery for remediation. To try to combat the low grade cancer: the men in the study: Ate Healthy, Exercised 30 minutes a day, and Meditated | Prayed […]
My favorite MUFA Snacks. I know I blogged a while back about adding mufa to your diet for weight loss. Of course, I feel bad if I don’t eat my own dogfood. What I mean by that, if I write or talk about something as a positive, I try my best to live what I […]
We released the “health club” edition of Simpleweight this past Friday. Someone asked me, what’s the big deal? Why is this feature useful? So, here’s the point: When you share your weight loss and make it public you hold yourself more accountable. For many people, its easy to let yourself down, but they wouldn’t dare […]
How did you spend your Friday evening? Well, my brother and I had a fun evening deploying simpleweight health-club edition. It’s late, and I’m tired. So, I’ll save a full report over the next few days. Here’s the abridged update: All Customers have a new simple weight home page which we call the simple weight […]