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Try These Gut-Busting Foods

Eating the right foods can actually help you lose weight. Eat more. Yes, really. But you have to nosh on the good stuff, according to the Framingham Nutrition Study. This ongoing resarch has found that women who consume 400 more calories per day and eat healthier foods are two-and-a-half times less...

Health Food: Hidden Hazards

Perhaps you’ve made changes in your diet for the sake of losing weight, lowering your cholesterol, or just for general well-being. You may be surprised to learn that some popular health foods may not be as wholesome as they seem. Tuna is awash in controversy. Tuna seems to be the perfect...

20 Little Ways to be a Big Loser

Simple strategies for dropping the pounds—and keeping them off. Consuming just 100 fewer calories each day is enough to avert the 1 to 2 pounds the average person gains each year. To lose weight, you have to downsize by 500 calories a day—but you don’t have to slash them all from...

5 Diet Myths Debunked

You may be falling prey to some common diet myths. Here’s how you can outwit them. MYTH: Cutting carbohydrates helps you lose weight. TRUTH: Doing it the wrong way can also make you feel rotten and unhealthy. Carbs are to this decade what fats were to the last: food demons. Truth is, though,...

Tame Your Cravings

New tactics to help you avoid overindulgence. Call it the undiet. You stop trying to arbitrarily restrict what you eat and instead learn to tame your cravings, whether you’re at a party, dining out, or at home cooking treats. The undiet isn’t exactly new. A similar idea was offered up in the...