Get Tested For Food Intolerances
If your are allergic to a particular food, you generally know about it. You will have an instant reaction and in some cases it is life threatening such as in a peanut allergy. Food intolerances are very different. The body’s reaction can be quite subtle and it can take several hours even days for any […] (more…)

The 4 Tools We Need To Lose Weight
Provides 4 essential and basic tools for weight loss. Nice article for overviews and motivation. (more…)

The 3 Hidden Keys to Rapidly Burning Stubborn Fat
Reveals the secret “power tips” that athletes, bodybuilders, and fitness models use to burn maximum fat in the shortest amount of time. (more…)

Downsizing Your Plate
We all know we should not overeat if we wish to manage our weight. However, that’s not always easy. I was brought up with my mother’s words such “you’re not leaving the table until your plate’s empty” and “eat up, you can’t waste food”. It’s not always easy to change old habits.

Here’s a tip […] (more…)

Training to estimate blood glucose and to form associations with initial hunger
Background:
The will to eat is a decision associated with conditioned responses and with unconditioned body sensations that reflect changes in metabolic biomarkers. Here, we investigate whether this decision can be delayed until blood glucose is allowed to fall to low levels, when presumably feeding behavior is mostly unconditioned. Following such an eating pattern might avoid some of the metabolic risk factors that are associated with high glycemia.
Results:
In this 7-week study, patients were trained to estimate their blood glucose at meal times by associating feelings of hunger with glycemic levels determined by standard blood glucose monitors and to eat only when glycemia was < 85 mg/dL. At the end of the 7-week training period, estimated and measured glycemic values were found to be linearly correlated in the trained group (r = 0.82; p = 0.0001) but not in the control (untrained) group (r = 0.10; p = 0.40). Fewer subjects in the trained group were hungry than those in the control group (p = 0.001). The 18 hungry subjects of the trained group had significantly lower glucose levels (80.1 ± 6.3 mg/dL) than the 42 hungry control subjects (89.2 ± 10.2 mg/dL; p = 0.01). Moreover, the trained hungry subjects estimated their glycemia (78.1 ± 6.7 mg/dL; estimation error: 3.2 ± 2.4% of the measured glycemia) more accurately than the control hungry subjects (75.9 ± 9.8 mg/dL; estimation error: 16.7 ± 11.0%; p = 0.0001). Also the estimation error of the entire trained group (4.7 ± 3.6%) was significantly lower than that of the control group (17.1 ± 11.5%; p = 0.0001). A value of glycemia at initial feelings of hunger was provisionally identified as 87 mg/dL. Below this level, estimation showed lower error in both trained (p = 0.04) and control subjects (p = 0.001).
Conclusion:
Subjects could be trained to accurately estimate their blood glucose and to recognize their sensations of initial hunger at low glucose concentrations. These results suggest that it is possible to make a behavioral distinction between unconditioned and conditioned hunger, and to achieve a cognitive will to eat by training. (more…)

7 Tips for Dieting Success
There are lots of dieters, trying every sort of plan to lose weight. Here are 7 tips that will help you be successful in your diet and achieve a healthier all-around lifestyle. (more…)

Slimming clubs are great motivators for weight loss
If you have trouble motivating yourself to lose weight, and you’re starting to despair and feel like it might never happen, then there is an answer. Although society stigmatises, mocks and mis-portrays them, weight loss clubs are a very good support mechanism to help you through these problems. The value of these clubs comes not only from the experience of the people who lead them, but mainly from the other people. They will be a mix of people like you, who haven’t yet succeeded in losing weight and share your problems, and people who the club has helped in the past, who have now lost weight and can act as an inspiration to others. Hearing stories from these people can really help — if someone at the club was once much fatter than you but is now much thinner, it makes you feel like you’ve got an easy job to do, not the impossible one that you’ve been seeing. Weight loss clubs are invaluable for practical weight loss advice and discussion of new techniques, particularly the pitfalls of the newest fad diets. Beyond that, though, the chances are that many of the people at the club will become your friends, meaning you can call them up with your problems and you can help them with theirs — and that if things ever start going badly for you, they’ll be there to pick you up and help you carry on. Please remember that you should be careful when you join a weight loss club that you don’t fall in with a bad one — the worst will often simply try to sell you a get-thin-quick scheme, and will be led all the time by the head of the club instead of being in a circle format with each member speaking in turn. Asking around is generally the best way to find a good club that won’t try to take advantage of you.
John Gibb is the owner of <a href="http://www.Lose-Weight-Facts-Guidance.Info</a>, For more information on weight loss check out http://www.Lose-Weight-Facts-Guidance.Info (more…)

The Truth about Counting Calories
Is it unrealistic to count calories for the rest of your life or is that just part of the price you pay for a better body? You’re about to learn the answers to these questions and discover a simple secret for keeping track of your food intake without having to crunch numbers every day or become a "food fanatic." (more…)