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Women and Weight Loss

Women, to put it bluntly, are biologically different from men. Those differences imply some guidelines for diet, exercise and health matters in general.

Women, for example, naturally have a higher percentage of body fat than men, 27% on average compared to 15% for a fit individual. That single number alone is helpful information if one of your weight loss or exercise goals is fat reduction. Any woman trying to reduce her percentage should take into account this natural difference, since it can help avoid guilt and provide a realistic goal.

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Why Not Just Stop Eating?

One sure way to lose weight, it might seem, is simply to stop eating for a while. Simple as it sounds, that idea is fraught with potential problems.

The basic weight loss equation certainly remains valid in this case: using more calories than are consumed results in weight loss. If you don't take in calories by eating, it's fairly easy to satisfy that equation. Your body burns 70 calories per hour even just sitting idle on the couch.

But while you may be idle, your body's systems are not.

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What is the Body Mass Index?

The BMI (Body Mass Index) has become a useful tool in managing weight and body fat percentage in the last 20 years. Calculating it requires only simple arithmetic and can be performed by anyone. It's important because it provides an objective measurement that, combined with the appropriate scale for age and body type, helps someone manage their body weight more scientifically.

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What Is Cholesterol?

We often hear that cholesterol is bad. Sometimes, news breaks through the noise that there are two kinds and only one is bad. What is the full answer?

What Is Cholesterol?

Cholesterol is a waxy substance similar to fat. It is carried through the bloodstream and is stored in many of the body's cells. Its biological role is to help create certain hormones and bile acids that help digest fat. It is essential for building cell walls in the brain and nerves, skin and muscles, the heart and liver, and elsewhere.

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What is a Calorie?

Dieters often concentrate on calorie counting. That's wise, given that the basic equation of weight loss will always remain true: more calories consumed than used leads to weight gain. But that statement makes it sound as if a calorie is something you eat and if you ate fewer you would lose weight. That is not quite accurate.

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What is a Balanced Diet, Anyway?

It's easy to balance a beam. Just put the same weight on both sides of a pivot. You can even lead a balanced life, by having a mixture of activities. But what is a balanced diet?

The same basic idea applies in all cases: not too much of this here, not too little of that there. But in the case of diet, what is it that gets balanced, exactly?

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Weight Loss for Men

Women are the major consumers for weight loss programs and diets. Men tend to focus more on exercise. But either topic is, and should be, popular with both sexes. Men, too, need to concern themselves with proper diet and nutrition as part of a rounded program of weight loss and health.

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Weight Loss After Pregnancy

It's an obvious truth that after giving birth most women's bodies make considerable adjustments. Broad hormonal changes are common and mood swings are not unusual. But one thing that many women will focus on (sometimes too much) is losing that weight and body fat gained during pregnancy.

In order to do that safely and in a way that produces beneficial long-term results, take it slow and steady. Weight reduction and regaining muscle tone after birth takes time.

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Vitamins and Supplements- Pros and Cautions

There are a dozen or more vitamins that play an essential role in a wide variety of our bodies' functions. Getting these from a healthy, balanced diet is theoretically possible. Many actually do. But it can be difficult, especially today when so many are on the go.

Supplements can help fill the gap. Unfortunately, there is a large amount of junk science, and much more that simply isn't known for sure one way or the other, with respect to any weight loss supplement or nutritional aid. It pays to be cautious. It's your health.

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The Zone Diet

The Zone Diet is similar to the South Beach diet in some ways. But here the emphasis is less on adjusting the Glycemic Index by adjusting the types of carbohydrates and fats consumed and more on the proper ratio of these with proteins.

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