When starting on a diet, it would be helpful to write down everything in a food journal. Record daily what you ate, what were you doing, and how you were feeling. This would help in analyzing your eating habits, how much you eat, how often and how your emotions affect your eating pattern. With this [...]

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Easting to Lose Weight
by Jane Fonda
Article original link: http://www.jane-fonda.net/healthy eating/

If you’ve said it once, you’ve said it a hundred times: You want to eat healthfully and lose weight. Why then are you on a first name basis with the folks at the fast food drive-thru?
It must be because eating well requires too much time and [...]

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An Overview about the Zone Diet
The key factor in Zone Diet is the hormonal balance you achieve while eating each skillfully prepared meal. With a food plan comprising an accurate balanced ratio of carbohydrates (40%), fat (30%) and proteins (30%); you actually get to eat foods, which control your body’s insulin production. This means that [...]

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Vitamin K
Vitamin K helps make four of the 13 proteins needed for blood clotting. Its role in maintaining the clotting cascade is so important that people who take anticoagulants such as warfarin (Coumadin) must be careful to keep their vitamin K intake stable.
Lately, researchers have demonstrated that vitamin K is also involved [...]

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