With the Superbowl here, it’s a great opportunity to make some fun, delicious and maybe even healthy gametime snacks! More on Gameday Superbowl Recipe, Snack and Food Ideas
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The Fat Smash Diet, by Celebrity Fit Club’s Dr. Ian K. Smith, and based on the best selling book of the same name, starts out in the right direction.
First, here’s how Dr. Ian sets it up.
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What contributes most to metabolic syndrome?
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The authors of the popular ‘Eat This Not That‘ do a great job of comparing most common foods, but completely miss the point of healthy eating. More on Eat This Not That Misses The Point
With all the acne relief products on the market, and new ones becoming available regularly, can they actual help?
There’s a buzz around SensiClear, the only acne treatment system with the patented ingredient Retextra. It appears to be the most advanced over the counter treatment product for acne available without a prescription.
It appears to be unique in that unlike leading acne treatment systems, the SensiClear products don’t contain benzoyl peroxide, which is often associated with drying, flaking and skin irritation. The SensiClear Kit includes a 4 oz Purifying Cleanser, a 4 oz. Balancing Toner and a 2 oz Blemish Free Acne Treatment Lotion.
But can any prescription or over-the-counter acne treatment really help get rid of your acne, permanently?
The answer is most likely not.
You see, acne is a condition that starts on the inside and only the effects are show on your skin.
What you eat, how you handle stress, how much sleep you get, how many toxins you have in your body… are all factors in your skin condition, including acne.
Treating your acne condition from the outside with lotions and potions is like treating the symptom without the cause. It’s important to find the root cause rather that just applying a bandage.
Review acne treatments and find one that makes the most sense for you. A natural approach of a healthy diet filled with plenty of fresh fruits, vegetables, nuts, seeds and natural grains is a great start. Detoxing your body with a natural detox program like the master cleanse diet will also help cleanse your system of toxins that eventually surface on the skin and potentially cause acne and other skin conditions.
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In Mindless Eating, Wansink, a marketing professor at Cornell University who has studied consumers’ food-related decisions for decades, focuses on the sort of gradual, modest weight loss that is achievable. Declaring that “the best diet is the one you don’t know you’re on,” he urges small changes in everyday behavior that over the course of a year can result in a weight loss of 10 to 25 pounds. His book will not be much help to people who generally want to lose 50 to 100 pounds.
Enter Brian Wansink. He’s all about little changes that add up over time. He concedes that the body resists big, sudden movements in weight. “It’s estimated that over 95 percent of all people who lose weight on a diet gain it back,” he writes. “Deprivation diets don’t work for three reasons: 1) Our body fights against them; 2) our brain fights against then; and 3) our day-to-day environment fights against them.” Wansink’s recommendations, which are derived from his research on the cues that lead people to overeat, are designed to achieve the loss of up to half a pound a week, which he says is below the threshold that would trigger a metabolic response. He urges readers to use “the mindless margin”—the 100 or 200 calories a day they would not really miss if they gave them up—to gradually move toward the bottom of their weight ranges.
Even if you have no interest in following Wansink’s advice, the book is worth reading for his breezy, entertaining accounts of Candid Camera–ready studies in which people stuff themselves with stale popcorn because it’s in a big container, keep slurping soup from a surreptitiously replenished bowl, or eat more in restaurants because of music, menu language, or the ostensible origin of a complimentary glass of cheap red wine. Wansink’s overarching point is that, when it comes to food, we’re not paying attention. “It takes up to 20 minutes for our body and brain to signal satiation,” he notes, and Americans often finish their meals in less time than that. Instead of internal signals we rely on external cues to tell us when we’re done: Is the plate clean? Is everyone else done? Is there more in the serving dish?
To counteract such cues, Wansink recommends such tactics as using smaller plates (which make portions seem larger), keeping serving dishes in the kitchen (which discourages second helpings), replacing short, wide glasses with tall, thin ones (which make drinks seem bigger), keeping food scraps and bones on your plate (which reminds you how much you’ve eaten), and dividing snacks from big packages into smaller bags or plastic containers (which discourages you from devouring the entire package). Wansink, who wants readers to know that he “enjoys both French food and French fries each week,” advocates eating more mindfully, to increase enjoyment as well as to improve nutrition. But he thinks it’s unrealistic to expect people to constantly count their calories in the face of the myriad food-related decisions they make each day. In his view it pays to plan ahead, in effect tricking yourself into eating less.
Wansink, for his part, says labeling and education don’t make much of a difference, and “we cannot legislate or tax people into eating Brussels sprouts.” Although he has spent much of his career studying ways in which businesses encourage people to buy, he recognizes the limitations of these techniques and does not portray them as inherently sinister. “Do food companies put ingredients in their food that they know we will eat and love?” he writes. “Absolutely—they are guilty as charged. So is your grandmother.” Wansink emphasizes consumer self-help rather than protection from conniving capitalists. A chapter called “The Hidden Persuaders Around Us,” a phrase that echoes the title of the 1957 Vance Packard book that portrayed advertisers as insidious manipulators of desire, is mostly about tricks people can use to avoid eating mindlessly. Instead of remaking the world to discourage overeating, Wansink says, “we can reengineer our personal food environment to help us and our families eat better.”
Source: Reason
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