Tag: calories
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Common Dietary Challenges and How to Overcome Them

Figuring out what to eat isn’t easy. And trying to follow a healthy eating plan may be even harder. Nutrition isn’t like smoking, where the ideal number of cigarettes is zero. You need food to eat. Add to that the need to buy and prepare food, and things become more complex. In fact, three common…
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Not All Calories are Created Equal

Calories, calories and more calories. We have an obsession with counting calories. Look at any food label and right there at the top, usually bigger than anything else, are the calories. And we even have calories listed on restaurants menus. It’s as if food is only good for the calories it provides. And therefore it…
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Are artificial sweeteners good for you?

We’re a society focused on calories. We constantly see advertisements for low-calorie foods and calories are also provided on restaurant menus. And even some researchers want candies labelled with how much time it will take you to walk off those extra calories. At a young age we learn calories can help us lose or gain…
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You Can’t Outrun a Bad Diet

The phrase ‘diet and exercise’ is so common it rolls off one’s tongue. Similar to peanut butter and jam. Rarely is one mentioned without the other. One might, therefore, think the two are interchangeable. If you have a poor diet, you can make up for it with being more active. And vice versa. However, over…
