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Sticking to Your Diet at Mexican Restaurants
A flour tortilla is nutritionally sound, but roll it around a filling and deep-fry it, and you have a high calorie diet buster. The good news for dieters is that Mexican cuisine places minimal emphasis [more…]
Fast Food Serves Super-Size Fat and Calories
Eating out frequently, especially in fast-food restaurants, means that you’re probably missing out on many nutrients and eating more fat and calories than you want or need. A diet of fast food has several [more…]
Are You Likely to Gain Too Much Weight?
Eating too much and not exercising enough are the fundamental reasons people gain weight. But genetics, metabolism, and environmental factors explain how large your appetite is and how efficiently your [more…]
How Dieting Makes You Hungry
Dieting researchers have found that people with a long history of dieting lose their ability to recognize when they are full after a nutritionally complete meal. Chronic dieters eat or don’t eat based [more…]
Diet Foods for Your Refrigerator and Freezer
If you are on a diet, your fridge will be stocked with many nutritious fresh fruits and vegetables and plain frozen ones, which are a lot lower in calories than the frozen ones packaged in sauce or butter [more…]
Buying Nutritious Breads, Cereals, Rice, and Pasta
Full of essential nutrition, whole grains are the cornerstone of a healthy diet. But too often, shoppers are offered fat- and sugar-laden choices, devoid of nutrition and high in empty calories. [more…]
Sticking to Your Diet at Fast Food Places
Fast food restaurants are beginning to offer some choices for dieters or to those who want to eat nutritious food, but you have to use caution to stick to your diet. You can swear never to eat another [more…]
Eating to Satisfy Emotional Needs
From the time your mother handed you a cookie to quiet your crying, food may have become more than a way to provide nutrition. It’s a way to nourish your soul as well. Dieting to lose weight can bring [more…]
Food-Specific Diet Plans Allow Some, Avoid Other Foods
The premise of food-specific diets is that some foods have special properties that can cause weight loss, other foods cause weight gain, and combinations of specific foods cause you to lose or gain. [more…]
How Genetic Makeup Affects Body Weight
Although the exact mechanism isn’t clear, many health experts believe that each person is born with a genetically predetermined weight range that the body strives to maintain. Human bodies used this system [more…]
How to Fit Fats and Oils in a Healthy Diet
Oils and fats are among the more controversial components of the modern diet. You should get your essential fats mostly from whole foods. Two bonuses of this approach are that food sources are much more [more…]
Bad Habits That Get in the Way of Healthy Dieting
Dieters face pitfalls, some of which have to do with emotions, habits, or feelings of self-worth. But eating is not a moral issue. Your body requires nutrients to live. Sticking to a diet does not define [more…]
FDA Definitions for Nutrition Labeling for Restaurant Foods
If you are on a diet, eating out can mean trouble, but you can be sure that you’re getting a low-calorie meal when you order one. The Food and Drug Administration [more…]
Stocking Your Cupboard for Healthy, Tasty Cooking When Dieting
To cook low-calorie nutritious food, you don’t need to keep bottled salad dressings, canned cream soups, and oils in your kitchen. Instead, the diet-conscious cook stocks a pantry with canned tomatoes, [more…]
The Health Risks of Being Overweight or Obese
If you’re overweight, but feeling okay now, you may be indifferent to dieting to prevent health problems. But your extra weight strains all your body systems, putting you at risk for developing one or [more…]
How to Eat Sensibly When Traveling
Eating healthy, nutritious food and sticking to a diet are especially hard when you are away from home — for business or pleasure. You’re at the mercy of the food service industry, which offers foods high [more…]
Relating Risk Factors to the Weight That's Healthiest for You
Healthcare professionals use more than Body Mass Index (BMI), your weight, or the size of your waist to determine whether you need to lose weight. They also look at weight-related risk factors before determining [more…]
Dietary Guidelines Recommend Smart Food Choices in Your Diet
Some foods provide lots of nutrients per calorie. Some don’t. The former are called “nutrient-dense foods.” As you may expect, the Dietary Guidelines for Americans recommend choosing foods from the high-nutrient [more…]
Answering the Right Questions When You Review Diet Programs
After you consider the different types of diet programs and find one that you think may work for you, make an appointment to visit one of that program’s centers for a personal interview. Take along the [more…]
How to Understand Menu Language for Healthy Dining
Dieters must know how to translate menu descriptions to yield clues to the fat and calorie contents of a dish. Restaurant portion sizes have more to do with controlling operation expenses than with balancing [more…]
Tasty Low-Glycemic Snack Ideas
Snacking is important for regulating blood sugar levels. Just make sure the snacks you choose are healthy and have a low glycemic load. Keep several of these low-glycemic snacks on hand, and you won’t [more…]
Quick-Fix Low-Glycemic Meals
Short on time? Serving low-glycemic meals doesn’t have to mean hours in the kitchen. Serve your family healthy, lower-calorie, low-glycemic meals, and everyone will be happy. Try the following quick-fixes [more…]
Swapping High-Glycemic Foods for Low-Glycemic Foods
Replacing high-glycemic foods with low-glycemic ones is easier than you may think. The following table features several simple low-glycemic food swaps you can make. [more…]
Quick Shopping List for Low-Glycemic Foods
Preparing healthy, low-glycemic meals is a snap if you stock up on a variety of low-glycemic foods while grocery shopping. Check out the following table for help preparing your low-glycemic shopping list [more…]
The Glycemic Index Diet For Dummies Cheat Sheet
Following a low-glycemic diet for weight loss isn’t about deprivation; it’s about making better choices and swapping high-glycemic foods for ones that have a lower glycemic index or glyecemic load. Once [more…]
