Living Firm

There’s no such thing as a one-size-fits-all diet. How you pick one can have as much of an impact as the diet itself.
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We are a nation of blamers. We love to blame situations, circumstances, events and even ourselves for where we are in our lives. Blame allows you to avoid taking action — it gets you off the hook from acting responsibly. In terms of diet, it allows you to avoid focusing on controlling your weight — because there’s nothing you can do about it. Keep in mind, however, that one of the key …
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Raw food? Weight Watchers? South Beach? Eating real food (whole grains, vegetables, lean protein) at regular intervals? If diet indecision has you still eating doughnuts for breakfast, non-whole-wheat pizza for lunch and vowing to pick a program “next week,” then you need to know this: It doesn’t matter which diet you choose, as long as you enjoy it as much as your favorite iPod tune. When it …
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It doesn’t matter which diet you choose, as long as you enjoy it as much as your favorite iPod tune.
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When critically obese, bedridden Jose Luis Garza pleaded for help in shedding a few hundred pounds, he landed the world’s biggest weight watcher. Garza is getting diet advice from Manuel Uribe, a fellow Mexican who has been fighting to lose his title as the world’s heaviest man. Both men live around the Monterrey area in Mexico. Neither can get out of bed. Although Garza has not been on a scale …
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I adore eggs. Well, I did until five days ago, when I started the pure egg diet. Charles Saatchi lost four stone by eating nine eggs a day, for nine months.
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Instead of laying out large sums of money to lose weight, who would not rather have a member support group? We could share ideas, encourage one another, and have weekly weigh-ins. There are probably many like myself who yo-yo diet (not good) but haven’t found a solution yet.
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( Oregon State University ) A newly published study has found that the decline of sea otters along Alaska’s Aleutian Islands has forced a change in the diet of a terrestrial predator — the bald eagle. The study demonstrates the extraordinary complexity of marine ecosystems and how far-ranging the impacts can be when there is a population shift in a keystone species like the sea otter.
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You have to hand it to the couple that started the 100-mile diet phenomenon. Actually, perhaps they didn’t start it at all. It’s only the book-buying public and media throng tripping over themselves for an interview that gave legs to their one-year experiment in eating local.
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TOKYO (AP) - Dolphins at a Japanese marine park are going on a low fat diet after developing pot bellies and failing to look sharp in their aquatic performances. Kinosaki Marine World in western Japan said Tuesday that all its 19 dolphins have been on a low fat diet since late August, when they started failing to hit jumping targets and keep upright while treading water.
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