I hate the word diet, or rather I hate the way most people use the word. Diet simply means what you eat. When I hear someone say “I’m on a diet,” I immediately know they are destined to fail (at least in the long term). Being “on a diet”, by definition means that you are trying some short term plan to quickly lose weight and then, once you lose the weight, you will stop following the diet and gain back the weight. What you really need to do is make a permanent change to your diet instead of being “on a diet.” That is what I hope you will learn from the articles listed here.
Lincoln University has recently been tangled up in a little controversy over a weight loss requirement for their students. It’s actually a Body Mass Index (BMI) requirement, and they ended up doing away with it because of an uproar amongst the students.
I found this story very intriguing. The requirement was that all students had to [...]
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The main reason that most diets fail is that they represent a major change in the life of the dieter. When you make a major change like that, it is a shock to your system and your lifestyle. Most people can maintain the change over the short term, but they view it as a means [...]
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A recent study by the Washington University School of Medicine, showed that there are more benefits to exercise than just losing weight and getting a six pack. The study showed a significant cardiovascular improvement in the individuals that took part in the two year study. The participants were asked to keep their diets between 1,200 [...]
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