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Stopping the Yo-Yo and Starting Healthy Habits

29 May 2012
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Have you noticed a pattern? You'll spend a couple of weeks eating clean, exercising and losing weight, but then the pendulum swings and you spend the next week or two indulging in your old unhealthy habits. After too many days where you're not feeling so good, you'll get back to your clean habits, and so the yo-yo goes. It's time to stop this vicious cycle that never brings you all the way to your goal – keeping you comfortable enough, yet frustrated. The good news is that your yo-yo days could be quickly and permanently turned off with this simple mindset change.

Using Nutrition in the Fight Against Cancer

22 May 2012
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We are pleased to announce our newest guest blogger to our Skinny Gene Family- Jillian McKee. Jillian will be writing about how beneficial eating healthy and living a healthy lifestyle is for someone going through the battle of cancer

Fighting Back with Nutrition

22 May 2012
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Good nutrition is always a good idea. People who eat healthier food feel better, have fewer health issues in general and so on. For those who are or have battled cancer such as mesothelioma, lymphoma or breast or prostate cancer nutrition is far more than just a good idea. It can save your life.

Sneaky Food Swaps to Cut 875 Calories

30 Apr 2012
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There are plenty of tasty ways to substitute healthier ingredients for higher-calorie foods without feeling like you’re making a big sacrifice taste-wise. Here are some of favorite swaps. Try them all and you can save 875 calories!

How Fad Diets Get it Right

18 Apr 2012
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Fad diets make a lot of promises, but usually fail to deliver long-term success. Although they do a lot wrong, like promise rapid weight loss, limit food groups, and are too strict, there is a lot we can learn from fad diets that will allow us to live a healthy lifestyle.

Run to Curb Your Appetite

16 Apr 2012
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Exercise isn’t just a good way to take your mind off eating; it may curb your appetite, too. The results suggest that when a craving hits, weight watchers are better off going for a jog than pumping iron.

Through My Daughter’s Eyes

30 Mar 2012
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Since my daughter was born, we tried to be a living example of what it means to live a healthy lifestyle. When I see the world through my daughter’s eyes, I see plenty of negative temptations, but I also see hope. She is surrounded by so many people, parents, aunties and uncles, neighbors and friends, all helping to challenge what has become "the norm" and instead promote living healthfully.

Is a Calorie a Calorie?

22 Mar 2012
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“Is a calorie a calorie? A calorie may be a calorie when people talk about weight loss and nothing else, there are other factors involved. And once you get past my perhaps lame “Is a calorie a calorie” question, you can begin to see something approaching the truth. For one thing, says Nestle: “There are dozens of factors involved in weight regulation. It’s hard to lose weight, because the body is set up to defend fat, so you don’t starve to death; the body doesn’t work as well to tell people to stop eating as when to tell them when to start.”

Love Your Heart – FREE Healthy Heart Consultation

08 Feb 2012
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Get your free healthy heart consultation. Learn how to choose the right foods to improve both the health of your heart and metabolism. Receive your 2012 Guide to a healthy heart, including a list of foods that will help your heart and appeal to your taste buds.

8 Foods for a Healthy Heart

06 Feb 2012
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We are giving you a list of 8 Heart Healthy foods that will not only help your heart, but they also have other properties that work in fascinating ways that may even lower your blood pressure and cholesterol; therefore, lowering your risk of heart disease.
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