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The Essential Guide to Calorie Counting By: Amanda A. Kostro Miller, RD, LDN You may have never thought about the calories in food until you wanted to lose weight. Not only is eating less for weight loss hard to do, but calorie counting is tedious, time-consuming and eye-opening (is there
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5 Common Weight Loss Mistakes By: Amanda A. Kostro Miller, RD, LDN Weight loss can be a challenge for anyone, but sometimes we make things harder than they have to be! If weight loss was easy, everyone would already be at their goal weight. Weight loss is a process to grow
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The Benefits of Weight Loss (and Reasons to Continue Losing Weight) By: Amanda A. Kostro Miller, RD, LDN We all have our own reasons as to why we want to lose weight. Maybe you want to lose weight to “live longer” or “feel better.” While these are valid motivators for weight
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5 Basic Rules of Healthy Eating: The Dietitian’s Guide By: Amanda A. Kostro Miller, RD, LDN When you do a quick Internet search for “healthy eating tips,” you may find millions of hits. Some sources will tell you to do “low carb” or “plant-based,” but is that really the best
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Both are important for your life but which should you focus on for your health goals? Advice from a RealSimple article says that for different effects on your life, you will want to focus on either diet or exercise. If you want to lose weight, diet is the first thing you -
The “Biggest Loser” emphasizes exercise when it should be focusing more on diet. Adding 30 minutes of exercise does not reduce your calorie budget as much as cutting out two large sodas. It’s not true that American’s are refusing to move. The percentage of physically active people in America increased -
Is one more important than the other? A meta-study conducted by the Journal of the American Medical Association sought to compare the effectiveness of 59 diets and found that there was no best diet. Instead, what was most effective was the dieters’ ability to stick to it. With practicality being the most -
“Deceptively Simple” Solution to Obesity? The American Heart Association says that the the way to beat obesity is to eat fewer calories and increase calorie burning activity. So why is a simple solution so hard to implement? The body naturally wants you to consume energy, so organs send out cues that -
An article from the Harvard T.F Chan School of Public Health has explored Obesity throughout the world and highlights some striking observations, summarized below. Roughly 500 million people are obese today, with obesity being defined as a BMI greater than 30. This is twice the amount of worldwide obesity as in -
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has reported that no state has an obesity rate less than 20%, as of 2015. In 21 states and some territories, obesity rates were between 30% and 35%, while 4 states had obesity rates greater than 35%. American maps of self reported obesity among -
According to the State of Obesity, which is a project of the Trust for America’s Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, greater than 1 in 4 adult Americans are obese. The project explores different demographics relating to agee and location and and their relationship with obesity, activity, and weight-related disease. -
Rates of obesity in Louisville, Kentucky are rising according to a New York Times articles that states that 6 in 10 residents of the city are considered overweight. The city is taking responsibility to try and reduce this number. The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, founded in 2003 to combat obesity,
