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How to Cut Calories from Your Diet

Cut back on your calorie intake and lose weight – it all sounds so simple! Unfortunately, however, it’s often the most difficult thing any of us try to do.

Using Substitutions, Supplements and Tricks to Assist You

It’s not that overweight individuals can’t make sacrifices in what they eat and even how much they eat. It’s more that trying to stay full and satisfied on a calorie-counting plan can be painful! You don’t know just how quickly ...

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New Media Analysis Shows Room To Improve When Communicating About Weight And Health

 

Unrealistic and uninformed media portrayals of weight not only can negatively influence individual behavior, but can impact how policymakers approach issues of weight and health. The result, according to experts from the Strategies to Overcome and Prevent (STOP) Obesity Alliance and the National Eating Disorders Association (NEDA), is a continued belief that these issues are largely a matter of personal responsibility and that little can ...

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Take health care into your own hands

Visit HealthCare.gov to find health insurance that's affordable and meets your medical needs. You can also use this website to compare hospitals and other medical facilities, learn about preventive services to help you stay healthy, and read about the Affordable Care Act.
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Calculate Calories in Alcoholic Drinks

If you're curious about the calories in a glass of wine, a beer, a margarita, and other common drinks, check out the Alcohol Calorie Calculator. Keep in mind that the "serving" size used for these calculations may be smaller than what you typically consume in one drink. 
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Calorie counts don't stop kids from pigging out

Study challenges effectiveness of mandatory menu labels in fighting obesity
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150 years of diet fads and still no quick fix to get skinny

It turns out our obsession with weight and how to lose it dates back at least 150 years. And while now we say "overweight" instead of "corpulent" — and obesity has become epidemic — a look back at dieting history shows what hasn't changed is the quest for an easy fix
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American Council on Exercise Reveals Findings on Hula Hooping Workouts

The American Council on Exercise, America's leading authority on fitness and the largest nonprofit fitness certification, education and training organization in the world, today announced exclusive study findings that conclude hula hooping workouts offer substantial and positive results.
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Medical Treatment, Out of Reach

Late last year, Biosensors International, a medical device company, shut down its operation in Southern California, which had once housed 90 people, including the company’s top executives and researchers.
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Daily diet soda tied to higher risk for stroke, heart attack

Just as you were starting to feel virtuous for having switched from sugary sodas to low- or no-calorie substitutes, a new study comes along suggesting that diet sodas might be bad for your head and your heart.
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Getting tonsils out tied to kids' weight gain

Kids who have their tonsils removed seem to gain weight after the surgery and may be more likely to become overweight compared to children who never went under the knife, a new study suggests.