Health Risks of Long Term Restrictive Diets

Restrictive diets frequently limit or eliminate important food groups. In choosing to eat healthy for life, be sure to consider well-founded dietary advice such as recommended by the American Cancer Society for optimal cancer prevention.



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Secrets of the World’s Healthiest Populations

Global epidemiological studies have identified some unusually healthy populations and linked their health to diets that differ in significant ways from the typical Western diet.



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Calories In vs. Calories Out: the Math

The part of your body that has the physical ability to move other parts is muscle. Ergo the more muscles you have and the more you use them, the more calories you burn. In fact, every ounce of muscle you add increases your basal metabolism – the rate at which your body burns fuel.



Learn how you can Burn More Calories for the Best of Your Life.



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Calories In vs. Calories Expended

The human body is a marvelous machine. It can be pushed to great lengths, like pre-exam all-nighters, or to perform amazing feats, like running marathons or scaling mountains.



But it is a machine. It needs to be cared for and properly maintained.



The more the body is abused or pushed to the max, the greater the chance that parts will break down prematurely or beyond nature’s ability to repair them.



Like any machine, it needs fuel to operate. Give it improper or insufficient fuel and it won’t run as well, if at all.



Give it too much fuel and that will gum up the works in a very unique way.



Read Why the Man as Machine Analogy Breaks Down When We Overeat here.



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Eat Healthy for Life

As with most things in life, there’s no ONE solution that suits everyone. When choosing to eat healthfullyy, a plan for the rest of your life, you want to find one that YOU can live with.



Let us help you find a plan that helps you Eat Healthy for Life.



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Don’t Diet – Eat Healthy for Life

Let’s not talk about diets. Diets are punishment – like being sent to bed without dinner. Diets take some of the fun out of living.



Forget any past diet failures and push aside any guilt or shame you harbor about your weight. It’s time to look forward; not back. You have the whole future in front of you to get better every day. It's time to eat healthy.



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Age Warrior: One Woman’s Tale

My approach to fighting this aging thing is balanced and safe; but pretty aggressive. I have a healthy eating plan, take supplements, work out at the gym five hours a week and try to manage my stress level. I recently turned sixty; but I don’t let that hold me back. I’m committed to maintaining the maximum quality of life no matter what my age in years.



As for anti-aging products and treatments, I am very interested in the latest developments but always do my own research. I care about ingredients and scientific evidence; not marketing hyperbole. To see my current picks of anti-aging topical treatments, see my Age Warrior Top Ten.



As for diet, I subscribe to the “everything in moderation” school of healthy eating. For me, that philosophy has been sufficient to keep me at the same weight I was in my teens for the last twenty-five years. However I should also admit that I am almost fifty pounds lighter than my highest weight. [That was the ten years of “weight creep” after having a baby, during which time I tried every diet known to woman!] I finally found an approach to eating that works for me; and have stuck with it ever since.



If you’re still looking for a healthy eating plan that works for you, read my article Eat Healthy for Life. You can be fit and enjoy life too.

Weight Control without Dieting

The best thing you can do to delay aging is to keep your body weight at a constant, normal level. Since the United States in undergoing an obesity epidemic right now, this doesn’t bode well for the future, at least from an anti-aging nutrition standpoint.



There are many diets available, most of which work quite well if you stick to them. But that is usually the problem with diets. Long term maintenance is very difficult because restrictive diets are unnatural; they limit foods that are deemed bad for you.



But at some point, you will need to off the restrictive diet and adhere to a more balanced eating plan for the rest of your life.



That is why it is so important to learn how to eat healthy without dieting. Eating healthy isn’t hard because it does not require you to give up any food or drink.

You just have to learn portion control and always remember the golden rule: “Everything in Moderation.”



One or two glasses of wine, a thick steak or an ice cream sundae are all things you can enjoy if you remember the golden rule.



Diets like the Mediterranean or Sonoma are quite popular for this very reason. Researchers have found that Europeans eat a diet much richer in fat and calories than would be considered healthy. But they have less incidence of obesity, mainly because they eat smaller portions and savor their food more.



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Gourmands Unite!

Last night, my dinner "hour" started with a glass of wine at 6:00. The main course was tuna steak sautéed in olive oil with thinly-sliced green pepper, then simmered in wine and tamarind sauce; accompanied by long grain and wild rice and two slices of Italian bread spread with butter.



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Diet Math

I believe everyone has to find a balance that works for them to achieve and mainatin a healthy weight.



My eating plan goes against much of the current wisdom on weight control. I'm not seduced by diet fads, pills, or artificial versions of real food.



Read these articles to learn some "diet math" that can help you find the right balance for you: Don’t Diet - Eat Healthy for Life; and How to Determine a Healthy Weight for You



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