Would you rather look healthy than be healthy? A client of mine said that she wanted to look more healthy and as I thought about what she had said, it struck me that we often wish for the wrong things and then wonder why our lives take detours. It is so much easier to be [...]
Archive for the ‘Weight Control’ Category
Is The Gluten-Free Diet The New Atkins?!
It appears that many celebrities are now leading the way with a new eating regime purported to be ‘good for weight loss’. First of all, there are many, many people who are following a gluten free diet because they are actually allergic to gluten. If they eat even small quantities of it they will suffer [...]
How Can We Combat Childhood Obesity?
This topic is currently being discussed in The White House and I know it is difficult to come up with one solution that will work for all but we do need to address this before we completely reverse our mortality rates. I think that we need to start at the beginning of life. Women should [...]
Women Food & God by Geneen Roth
Having recently finished reading this book, I must say that despite her very ‘wordy’ expressions of what could have been said in fewer sentences, Geneen has done well to simplify a subject that occupies over eighty percent of female conversation. Her guidelines for eating are not new but, what I refer to as ‘assertive eating’, [...]
Why diets fail!
Recent research indicates that after you have lost weight, you have an increase in your emotional response to food. The research also indicates a decrease in activity of the area of the brain that is involved in restraint. One of the hormones that play a role in controlling appetite in the body is called leptin. After significant weight loss, [...]
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