Tag: healthy eating
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What’s Better – Eating Less or Moving More? So you want to lose weight (or rather, lose fat), and you’re looking for the perfect program. You’re seeing claims like “abs are made in the kitchen” and “exercise doesn’t cause weight loss” and lots of citations. How can this be? These are simplifications. Most people underestimate…
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Do Small Meals Boost Your Metabolism? Some people have an easier time controlling how much they eat by having many small meals a day instead of a few big ones. This probably works in a couple of ways: Planning for those small meals may simply mean they give more thought to what they eat. If…
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Should I eat Paleo? Yes and no. Paleo is a general approach to choosing food with a good basic blueprint but some specifics that are probably a little too specific. Like other low-carb food patterns, paleo recommends getting a majority of your calories from protein-dense foods and vegetables. It emphasizes whole foods, and it’s common…
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“Just Eat Less” OK, Einstein. How? Not a single one of us doesn’t understand why we “just need to eat less” if we want to lose weight, but most of us need to give some thought to how to do that. I suspect the big appeal of fad diets is the authoritative way they dictate…
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Chasing Delicious has a series of posters showing when fruits, vegetables, and herbs are in season. Seasonal Produce Calendars
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A US Food Administration poster from World War 1. These principles were meant to conserve resources in order to support the war effort, but they’re still good sense today. More about the US Food Administration (and more posters) at the National Archives.