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Avoiding Holiday Weight Gain
by Susan Patterson
With the holidays around the corner, many who have their diets under control may be fearful about the wave of parties and events centered around food in the coming months. If this is your first holiday season following your healthy lifestyle, you may be apprehensive about how to handle social situations with endless buffet tables and overflowing dessert trays. While it is easy to get off track, there are a few strategies you can follow to stay on the beam.
Three Life-Saving Health Habits
by Susan Patterson
Habits can be good or bad, and while a lot of focus is put on habits that ruin your health, it’s important to take a look at what’s good for you as well. Everyone knows that eating right and exercising is part of a responsible lifestyle, but there are specific measures you can take in these areas to increase your chances of a long, healthy life. Take a look like what you should eat, as well as how much and what type of exercise is good for you. A third habit involving your mental and emotional health rounds out these choices to ensure a balanced outlook.
Take Time to Eat Lunch and Lose Weight
Losing weight is hard work, and a lack of focus can keep us from getting the results we want. While breakfast is the most commonly skipped meal of the day, some of us blaze through lunch carelessly without paying attention to what we put into our bodies. It’s essential to give this midday meal just as much attention as we do any other meal we eat. Many times our lunchtime habits sabotage our success.
Warning Signs You May be Anorexic
by Susan Patterson
Anorexia affects more than 1% of teenage girls in America, but many young adults also suffer from this eating disorder. People with anorexia are obsessed with their weight and usually undertake dangerous methods to get thin. Distorted body images cause people to believe that they are fat when they are actually underweight, and up to 10% of the teenagers who develop anorexia will die as a result of it.
