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Meal Planning: Your Secret to Weight Loss Success
There's a popular quote that goes something like this: “when you fail to plan, you are planning to fail”. The internet couldn’t decide if it was Winston Churchill or Benjamin Franklin who said it, but nevertheless, the message is what’s important. Wh...
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Oct

Self Love for Weight Loss: The Importance of Being Nice to Yourself
Would you look at your best friend and tell her that she's not good enough? Not pretty enough? Not thin enough? Would you tell your mom or sister or cousin that she’s terrible for veering off of her “diet” and that she should beat herself up over it and ge...
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Is a Calorie a Calorie? Not According to Research.
For years, nutrition experts have been saying that “a calorie is a calorie” - that as long as you were staying within your allotted calorie goals and exercising enough, you'd lose weight. But new research is showing that this actually might not be as true ...
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Oct

Is Yogurt Healthy? Making Sense of the “Diet” Food
Since 2010, more than 670 new yogurt products have made their way into your local supermarket. Manufacturers market these yogurts as a healthy, waist-reducing option, but that's not always the whole story. It’s true that yogurt can make for a great breakfast or on-the...
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Oct

Why Should I Meal Prep?
In a perfect world, you would be able to cook all your meals fresh at home and sit down to eat them at your leisure; but in today's modern society, most people just don’t have that luxury. Meals are eaten at home, at work, and even in the car. There are restaurants ev...
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Oct

Weight Loss at Work: Tips for Staying on Track
The Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics estimates that a whopping 83 percent of Americans eat at their desks during work. If you're one of these people, you probably have the best intentions to eat a healthy whole foods lunch, but short lunch breaks, temptations from not-so...
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Oct

Does Gluten Free Mean Healthy? Let’s Break It Down
Gluten free is all the rage right now. Although it's estimated that only one percent of Americans have celiac disease - an autoimmune disorder that results in immune attacks that damage the small intestine in response to gluten – about twenty percent of American...
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Oct

How to Get Rid of Stomach Fat
Last week we discussed the different types of body fat and how they affect your health. The most dangerous type of fat, called visceral fat, is found deep within the belly area and surrounds your major organs. The bad news is that having a lot of this type of stomach fat can incr...
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Oct

Seltzer Water and Weight Loss: The Skinny on the Bubbly
There's this major company that makes seltzer drinks. And let’s just say that every time said company comes out with a new flavor, there’s also a major uproar. We’re talking uproar in a good way. People go nuts; and oftentimes, the new flavors start sellin...
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Oct

Healthy Recipe: Golden Milk (Haldi Ka Doodh)
Last week, we talked about turmeric and the potent health benefits associated with this powerful spice. While you could easily add the spice to savory dishes and soups, we wanted to help you think outside the box a little bit by introducing you to Golden Milk. Golden Milk, traditi...
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Oct

Make Time for Turmeric: A Super Spice with Enormous Health Benefits
Turmeric is nothing new. In fact, the ancient spice dates back nearly 4,000 years to the Vedic culture in India. Indians have been using turmeric from everything to flavoring food to relieving gas to improving energy for thousands of years, but it's not until recently that ...
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Oct

Your Lymphatic System: Part 2
Last week, when we talked about your lymphatic system, we gave you some quick tips about what you can do to keep this vital system thriving. We didn't get into detail about the “how” or the “why”behind some of these tips yet, because we thought ...
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