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Learn portion control and purchase healthy foods for smart snacking

Snacks can be part of a winning game plan. Smart snacking is a great way to incorporate vitamins, minerals, fiber and other nutrients into your diet. The key is planning, portion control and selecting healthy foods. When adding snacks to your daily food intake, consideration of meal size and timing is important. You lead a busy life, and good nutrition may be overlooked due to convenience. Even ...

Chocolate cake breakfast could help you lose weight

Eating chocolate cake as part of a full breakfast can help you lose weight, say scientists.

Having desserts for breakfast good for slimming

Tel Aviv, Feb 8 (IANS) Those with a weakness for sweets can now include cookies and cake in a 600 calorie breakfast menu with some proteins and carbs to shed weight in a pleasurable way and also stay slim.

Studies Put Soda in the Crosshairs

All this week, NHPR has been looking at the challenge of reducing the number of overweight people in the state. At the national level, there is the barest glimmer of good news.  One study suggests that obesity rates among some groups might be leveling off. A separate analysis  found that the consumption of certain sugars in our diet dropped about 25% Taken together, the two results have drawn ...

Vegan diet may help diabetic patients

Nutritionist Susan Levin has challenged Southern cooking diva Paula Deen to change her diet to improve her health. Last week Deen confirmed rumors that she had been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. Levin and other nutritionists and doctors at Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine want Deen to join their 21-day Vegan Kickstart program.