How to Boost Your Metabolism The best way to boost your metabolism is to change your body composition. This means to have more muscle and less fat. As we age, we lose muscle and it is replaced with fat. The average adult loses about 6.6 pounds of muscle a decade. By age 65 the body has doubled its fat mass and lost half its muscle mass. This is a reason why many people gain weight. Since muscle is more metabolically active than fat, you either have eat less and less, … [Read more...]
Live a Happier Healthier Life
Many people overeat and can’t break free from their bad habits because the habits are serving a purpose.These habits keeps you from dealing with what is underlying it... What we really want- to be happier and find more meaning and purpose in our lives. Research shows that we are not that good at figuring out what makes us happy. There are a lot of myths about happiness. So if you think that just by losing weight or fulfilling any one “goal” you will be happy, you may be … [Read more...]
Are you an optimist and why is optimism so important?
In a recent article in The New York Times Jane Brody discussed the merits of being an optimist. Seeing the glass as being half full as opposed to half empty is very much a function of how you see it. An important distinction was made between being an optimist and two other character traits that complement optimism: persistence and what is called motivation (not giving up). This was found in a research study by Dr. Segerstrom and others to be the gift of optimism because when you combine … [Read more...]
Why watching TV causes weight gain
The most important piece of information I got out of watching The Weight of the Nation which was focused more on the consequences of weight gain than how to lose weight is the effect of watching TV on weight gain. Why would watching TV cause people to gain so much weight? The Weight of the Nation focused on children, and called the advertisements for soda and cereal predatory. Food companies understand how brand loyalty works. The younger you get them the more hooked they get. The more you eat … [Read more...]
Not all calories are created equal…we have been misled on the weight problem
There is a new documentary about to air The Weight of the Nation. This well researched documentary has come to the same conclusion I have on the weight problem in America. The best way and only way to lose weight and keep it off which to me is the only successful way to lose weight you must treat the way you lose weight as your lifestyle. That means the changes you make must be permanent and not viewed as a diet. This is hard to do because the brain tricks you into thinking its ok to eat this or … [Read more...]
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