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Understanding Diet & Nutrition

How Your Brain Signals Your Body's Need for Food

You may think that hunger is all in your stomach and that dieting is all in your head. But nutrition experts know that hunger is regulated by a complex system of chemicals that send signals between your [more…]

Diet & Nutrition

The Essentials of Healthy Weight Loss

The essentials of healthy weight loss can help you take a balanced approach to losing weight and staying in shape. Getting fit and trim requires balancing diet, nutrition, and exercise, as well as considering [more…]

Understanding Diet & Nutrition

How to Determine a Serving Size without Measuring

You don't need utensils to measure healthy portion sizes - whether you're eating out or making meals at home. This video shows you how to put your hands to work as kitchen tools to determine serving sizes [more…]

Weight Loss

Tracking How Many Calories You Eat

Before you start dieting, it helps to determine how much you do eat. Unfortunately, a magic formula for figuring out how many calories you eat is unavailable as yet — you simply have to track it. If you’re [more…]

Weight Loss

Using the Food Pyramid for Weight Loss

After you have a general idea of which foods belong in which food groups and what their nutritional benefits are, you can start to plan your weight-loss diet. First, determine your calorie needs. Then, [more…]

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