The Big Issue with Breast Cancer: How Your Weight Affects Your Risk
The more excess weight you carry, the greater your chances of getting the disease. Here, the slim-down strategies that could save your life.
By Richard Laliberte
Weight Gain and Breast Cancer
Sometimes Tina Mitsis, 28, feels like a walking time bomb. “Both my mother and grandmother have or have had breast cancer,” says Tina, a lawyer in New York City. But rather than live in fear, she’s taking action to outsmart the disease. “I’m fit, I’m at a healthy weight, and …

In my last post, I discussed how crucial it is for you to have a PLAN to control your calorie intake during the holidays. Thiss tip is even more simple and expands on the premise.
Plan on staying away from the booze.
Look, a drink or two isn’t going to be the end of the world. But when two turns to three…
I’m not getting on my soap box here. I’m just telling you something you already know:
Booze leads to bad decisions. And in this case, we’re talking about bad eating decisions.
When alcohol …

I know you know this.
You know you know this.
Fail to plan, plan to fail.
You can’t just HOPE you’re going to behave yourself at holiday parties. You can’t just do the same old things you’ve been doing. You can’t just miss breakfast. have a light lunch and then go to a party filled with temptation and not go a little insane on the cheese platter
You have to plan your meals.
You have to plan your workouts.
You have to set your goals in stone.
You don’t want to be the …

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How Shoulds and Wants Come Together
Ellyn Satter, MS, RD, LCSW, BCD
Almost everybody today feels upset and anxious about eating. The gap is widening between what people think they should do and what they want to do—and what they are able to do—with eating. Many say focusing so much on health takes all the pleasure out of eating.
To close your personal gap between the shoulds and the wants, make your priority
feeding yourself well. Stop trying to be so virtuous and instead emphasize eating delicious and wholesome food at predictable times. Once …

Sculpt your stomach and save your back with one genius move.
by David Zinczenko
Walk into any gym in any city, and you’ll see the same thing: Lots of men and women doing lots of reps of exactly one abs exercise: the crunch. This classic move is excellent for increasing the size of your midsection muscles, but it comes with an inherent drawback: To do it, you must round your lower back. Repeatedly. And that repetition increases the strain on your intervertebral discs and the wear and tear on your spine, …

It’s party time, are you ready? Are you dreading the possible weight gain that might accompany all that partying? Don’t fret; I’ve outlined the 5 best strategies you can put into place now to keep from being a gainer this holiday season. Do read on.
1. Stay away from the buffet
All that food or rather all that temptation. It’s inevitable that at least a few of your stops will include buffet tables this year. Here are a couple ways to come out on top:
a. Use a smaller plate or even a saucer for …

Break and sweat and blast away some of that mid-section before you start eating all that great food.
Join me next Wednesday for one last workout before the “eat out.”

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Carbs, carbs, carbs. That’s what everyone seems to want to talk about. How do I avoid carbs?
Well, what you should be talking about instead is, “How do I get more lean Protein into my eating plan?”
Now THAT is the right question.
You see, Protein is where it’s at. Check out these two little known facts about protein:
1) Protein requires more calories to digest than carbs or fat. This is called the “thermic effect of food.” In other words, your body uses more calories to digest protein than other nutrients. Pretty sneaky, …

Today, right now is the best time to start your weight loss journey. Why? Because you are a student of the Internet. Today, the Internet is filled with programs and products both free and paid that will help you lose the weight and teach you how to keep it off. Read on to learn about some of the best tools on the Internet to put in your weight loss arsenal.
1. Tweetwhatyoueat.com: This site makes the best use of Twitter that I have seen to date, for weight loss. It’s really …