Weight Loss Strategies: Calorie Burn, Dieting & Fitness Plans

Sustainable weight management is achieved through calorie deficit strategies, metabolic endocrine support, and high-intensity exercise routines.

Is a Weight Loss Tea Harmful During Pregnancy?

During pregnancy, your body works hard to supply your growing baby with the energy and nutrients it needs to develop organs, put on weight, and add a healthy layer of fat under the skin.

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Pureed Food Diet

More than 6 million Americans have swallowing difficulties, according to the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association. If you have been diagnosed with dysphagia, a swallowing disorder, you may need to alter the texture of your diet to swallow safely.

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How to Lose Weight When You Hate Healthy Foods

Even if you are not a fan of collard greens, sprouts or salads, it is still possible to lose weight and stay fit. The best weight loss plan is a healthy balance of daily exercise and a diet consisting of a variety of fruits and vegetables, lean protein and whole grains.

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Is It Safe and Healthy to Burn 1,000 Calories a Day?

Most adults easily burn 1,000 calories per day even without movement. Your body is constantly working behind the scenes -- pumping blood, running internal organs and taking in oxygen. These necessary functions use energy or calories; the calories burned through them are known as your basal metabolic rate, or BMR.

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Is It Possible to Overdose on Amino Acids?

Amino acids in the diet either come from protein or from amino acid supplements. Amino acids are important for the health of the body, but consuming too much protein or amino acids can put a strain on your kidneys, because amino acids can be metabolized and have potentially toxic byproducts.

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Why Is Lunch So Important?

As the main daily meal in dozens of countries around the world, lunch holds a place of primary cultural importance. In 9-to-5 environments, the midday meal isnโ€™t always such a big deal, but making time for a healthy lunch can pay off both mentally and physically.

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The Average MPH While Hiking

Your average hiking speed will vary according to your fitness level, the steepness of the terrain, weather and whether your route requires crossing streams or other obstacles. Paul Tawrell, author of "Wilderness Camping & Hiking," cites an average pace of 2.5 to 4 mph over flat ground.

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Does Drinking Hard Alcohol Help With Weight Loss?

It isn't likely that drinking hard alcohol is going to help with weight loss. In fact, there's some evidence that links it to weight gain instead. A number of factors may influence the effects of alcohol on weight, however, including how much you drink and how often you drink.

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How to Lose Weight in a Sedentary Lifestyle

Weight loss is a difficult process, especially if you are used to a sedentary lifestyle that doesnโ€™t typically include much exercise. However, being overweight increases your risk of developing dangerous health conditions such as high blood pressure, diabetes, high cholesterol, heart disease and stroke.

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How to Lose Weight When You Are Morbidly Obese

In the past, weight management in obese people relied solely on low-calorie or hypocaloric diets. Through research and scientific breakthroughs, it is apparent that weigh loss in obese people can be better achieved through a combination of hypocaloric dieting, lifestyle modification and exercise.

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How Many Calories Are Burned in a One-Minute Kiss?

Kissing is good for your relationship, but you may wonder if it does your body any good. Stop wondering. Giving your lips a good workout apparently is okay for the rest of you as well: Kissing burns calories.

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Weight Loss and Strawberries

Strawberries are packed with antioxidants and anti-inflammatory enzymes, and have enough fiber to boost your digestion. Strawberries are an integral part of the Fat Resistance Diet program and can be eaten by themselves or with cereal, oatmeal and even yogurt.

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How Can I Lose Weight With Sculpt & Cleanse?

Sculpt N' Cleanse is an herbal colon cleanse product that may support your weight loss goals. Health Direct, the manufacturer, claims that cleansing toxins from the body represents the first step of an effective weight loss plan.

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How to Lose Weight by Melting Ice

Losing weight by melting ice makes sense from a physics standpoint. Oregon-based physicist William Butler reports that it takes approximately one calorie to bring one ounce of ice to body temperature. Unfortunately, at that rate it would take more than 200 pounds of ice to burn off one pound of fat.

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How to Eat Candy & Still Lose Weight

Dieting is never easy. Although it is difficult to track statistically the percentage of dieters who succeed in keeping the weight off, clinical psychologist Lavinia Rodriguez, a specialist in weight management, in an article for TampaBay.com, estimates that the rate of failure is around 90 percent.

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Does Oatmeal Go Bad and Lose Its Nutritional Value?

Oatmeal is used as a breakfast cereal and in breads, granola mixes and cookies. It is a staple food usually stored in a cupboard or pantry. Manufacturer expiration dates of oatmeal will vary, making it difficult to determine how long you can keep that container of oatmeal around.

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