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Flickr: arkDiet pills, they’ve had a rough go of it, links to heart disease, kids using them to get high, gross bowel movements and doubt as to whether they even work, a marketer’s nightmare. Time for more bad news!

A new study suggests the popular diet drug Orlistat, sold under the prescription name Xenical, doesn’t inspire people to improve their diets, instead individuals popping Xenical are more likely to eat worse. Read the rest of this entry »

The news that the much-loved Joy of Cooking has increased the calories in several of its recipes over the years has been controversial with some in the nutrition business. While news reports used scare tactics to warn us that our cookbooks could be making us fat, dietitian Maggie Green, who consulted on a recent edition of Joy, was skeptical that the study only analyzed 18 recipes out of thousands and that newer editions Read the rest of this entry »

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Plums aren’t a fruit that I normally eat as a rule, but just recently, I have just recently started eating them. And as I was doing some research this morning for some fresh content. I am now glad that I do.

Because I came across a article that talks about the benefits of eating plums, which I am now going to talk about. Just recently scientists have found that plums are even better for you Read the rest of this entry »

The news that the much-loved Joy of Cooking has increased the calories in several of its recipes over the years has been controversial with some in the nutrition business. While news reports used scare tactics to warn us that our cookbooks could be making us fat, dietitian Maggie Green, who consulted on a recent edition of Joy, was skeptical that the study only analyzed 18 recipes out of thousands and that newer editions Read the rest of this entry »

Here is some quite eggciting news about eggs, I don’t know quite why there seems to be such a focus on them at the moment but they do seem to be in the news quite often.

And this time it’s even better news scientists are now saying that eggs are a good way to keep your blood pressure under control, they have discovered that eggs have a naturally occurring compound which is the same as some blood pressure Read the rest of this entry »

At Green Mountain, we’re not proponents of strategies to artificially reduce the amount of food we eat, to try to fool our bodies that we’ve had enough. They don’t work. Our bodies know when we need more food. Even when we try to trick it, the hunger drive wins the vast majority of the time.

It’s not our fault we don’t understand that. We’ve been taught that we can ‘control’ our hunger, but the Read the rest of this entry »

In these tough economic times, many people are tightening their belts and cutting back on spending. However, if part of that financial belt tightening includes canceling your gym membership, the resulting paunch around your waist may cause your belt to fight back a bit. Thankfully, it’s entirely possible to get a good workout without a stitch of fitness equipment, and chief among the many great muscle-toning, Read the rest of this entry »