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When boredom strikes, your pantry may be one of the first places you turn. But if your pantry is filled with high-calorie, high-fat foods, over time, the scale will tip in the wrong direction. Counter these temptations by tossing the junk food and replacing it with wholesome, nutritional snack options. It’s time to give your pantry a healthy makeover by tossing the following five foods for good!
Tags: eating well, lifestyle, nutrition, weight loss
Have you had your blood pressure tested lately? And if so, is it high?
The good news is if you do have high blood pressure, losing weight and making lifestyle changes can remedy the issue about 80 percent of the time. The bad news is, if you ignore high blood pressure you could be setting yourself up for some big health problems in the future.
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If you are someone who has lost weight, regained it, and lost it again, just to regain it again numerous times, here’s some good news: No matter how many times it’s happened, you can break the yo-yo diet cycle!
How? Perhaps the most important step is to stop looking at weight loss as a destination and start thinking of it as a lifelong effort.
Tags: body composition, fad diet, lifestyle, long term weight loss, maintenance, obesity, weight loss, weight management, yo-yo diet
In researching the topics for upcoming blog posts, we decided to post a simple question to the CMWL community on Facebook and Twitter: Are you interested in intermittent fasting. Whoa! We were pretty surprised by the swift and energetic response. Yes, tell me more! I’m interested! You don’t have to tell us twice! Without further ado, let’s dive into the questions we have and answers we found.
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There is no doubt that achieving and maintaining a healthy weight benefits your overall health and vitality. Volumes of research confirm its positive impact on reducing the risk of developing over fifty chronic conditions, such as high blood pressure, high cholesterol, type 2 diabetes and several forms of cancer. Losing weight can limit these risks through improvements to multiple biological systems, such as the endocrine, metabolic and circulatory systems. Your body was designed to work in a specific way, and losing excess weight helps you reach its optimal state.
However, there is one system that doesn’t quite fully align with the natural or automatic benefits of weight loss. The skeletal system – consisting of 206 bones and a network of tendons, ligaments, and cartilage – has an interesting relationship with body weight. Weight loss ultimately benefits the skeletal system’s health, but it takes a little work and thoughtful decision-making to make that happen.
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It seems more Americans are going organic these days. Since 2007, organic food purchases have more than doubled, and have grown at eight times the rate of overall food purchases. It’s a stunning statistic as the cost of organic foods can reach up to 100 percent higher than their non-organic equivalents. So the big question is?
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