Watch portion sizes Keep a careful eye on portion sizes, when eating out or serving up your own meals at home. It isn’t always what you eat that can make weight loss tricky, but how much. This can be especially true for dishes like bowls of pasta or fruit smoothies – their intrinsic 'healthiness' makes it easy to forget the portion size and calorie content.
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Study Probes Obesity And Chronic Pain Links Though it is well known obese individuals have a high incidence of persistent pain problems, a new study in The Journal of Pain, published by the American Pain Society, reports that comorbid obesity and pain also are linked to family history and mood disorders. Chronic pain and obesity are rampant in the U.S...
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Making Sugar-Free Jam
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I've been having fun lately making sugar-free jam. This is the easy "freezer jam" type, not the "store it in your pantry for a year" type. It takes no special equipment. I describe my experiments for you, and provide a recipe. Join me for my
<b><a href =" http://lowcarbdiets.about.com/od/cooking/a/sugarfreejam.htm">Adventures in Jam-Making</a>. <br /><br />
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5-Star Low-Carb Recipes!
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The other day one of my walking partners suggested that I make a list of the 5-Star recipes on my site. That turns out to be difficult! For one thing, which ones qualify? Suppose there is a recipe with nine 5-Star ratings and one 4-Star? For another, the ratings tend to evolve over time. But I did think I'd list a few for you. I chose recipes that have at least three reviews each, and which got top ratings. Enjoy!
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My Message to the USDA
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Just under today's deadline for public comment about the latest Dietary Guidelines proposal, I submitted my comment, and I thought I'd share it with you:<br /><br />
I am a journalist who has been writing about healthy reduced-carbohydrate diets for six years. Over that time, I have received correspondence from many hundreds of people whose health has been improved using this approach. Complications from diabetes reversed, blood pressure normalized, weight lost, triglycerides plummeting - these are all very very common and are only the most obvious health improvements people can find from reducing the amount of carbohydrate in their diets.<br /><br /><!--rss-->
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Almonds: Low-Carb Super Food
<img src ="http://0.tqn.com/d/lowcarbdiets/1/0/l/8/-/-/almondsinshellbl.jpg" hspace="5" border="0" alt=almonds align="right">When I'm going to be out of the house for awhile, I will often tuck a few raw almonds into my pocket. This is a great way of staving off hunger in a healthy way, and helps me to avoid the tidal wave of carbs that seems to swell wherever I go! I also use almond meal in many recipes. Almonds are very heart-healthy, as well as being delicious and satisfying! Let's hear it for almonds, and check out my new article about the <b><a href ="http://lowcarbdiets.about.com/od/lowcarbsuperfoods/a/Almonds-Health-And-Nutrition.htm">Health Benefits of Almonds</a></b>.
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Little Things are Adding Up
<img src ="http://0.tqn.com/d/lowcarbdiets/1/0/j/8/-/-/balancingstonesbl.jpg" hspace="5" border="0" alt=stones balancing align="left">I've been writing about low-carb diets for over 6 years now, and never have more people in my personal life been talking about low-carb eating - not even during the "low-carb craze" of a few years ago. This morning in my exercise class, the women were talking about how toast actually has sugar in it! And potatoes! And how cutting out those foods that have sugar really help you lose weight! Woohoo!<br /><br />
Also, three different friends have contacted me within the past couple of months to say that they are trying a low-carb diet. One said that her husband was having blood pressure problems, but that within two weeks we was able to dramatically reduce his medication. "It's like a miracle!", she said.<br /><br />
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Join Us in Our Low Carb Forum!
<a href ="http://forums.about.com/n/pfx/forum.aspx?nav=messages&webtag=ab-lowcarbdiets"><img src ="http://z.about.com/d/lowcarbdiets/1/0/G/1/-/-/handsbl.jpg" hspace="5" border="0" alt=low carb forum align="right"></a>Do you have questions about low-carb eating? Are you struggling to figure out ways to make reducing carbohydrates work in your life? There is a place where we talk about all kinds of things related to low-carb diets - in our <b><a href ="http://forums.about.com/n/pfx/forum.aspx?nav=messages&webtag=ab-lowcarbdiets">Low Carb Forum</a></b>. We talk about what we're eating, new products we've found, and we help each other solve the inevitable problems that are part of making a life change. Some examples of current discussions in the Forum:
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Andrew Weil: Carbs Bad, Saturated Fats OK
<img src ="http://0.tqn.com/d/lowcarbdiets/1/0/Y/5/-/-/andrewweilbl.jpg" hspace="5" border="0" alt=andrew weil align="left">You know, I can talk about the problems with too much carbohydrate, cite the many scientific studies, talk about how promoting a low-fat diet is problematic - I can do all this until the cows come home, and very few people are going to pay any attention at all. Even among my readers, my writing about science is not very popular. But when Andrew Weil says it, let's face it: more people are going to sit up and take notice. So I was literally cheering when I read this piece in the Huffington Post:<!--rss--> <b><a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&zu=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/andrew-weil-md/healthy-eating_b_629422.html">Fat or Carbs: Which is Worse?</a></b><br /><br />
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Sugar-Free "Special Sauce" For Your Burgers
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