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The Science Behind Breaking Bad Habits

January 4, 2012 / Staff

You can’t help discussing habits in the season of resolutions to change or break them.

We all start out with such strong resolve but often times fail to recognize the triggers that make us cave.

“Once a behavior had been repeated a lot, especially if the person does it in the same setting, you can successfully change what people want to do. But if they’ve done it enough, their behavior doesn’t follow their intentions,” Neal explains.
Neal says this has to do with the way that over time, our physical environments come to shape our behavior.
“People, when they perform a behavior a lot — especially in the same environment, same sort of physical setting — outsource the control of the behavior to the environment,” Neal says.

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Eating for Your Age

January 4, 2012 / Staff

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Eating for your age?

Folic acid during your child bearing years to prevent birth defects, calcium and iron in your 30’s for bone health and energy and foods to ease the effects of menopause and memory loss.

Watch this video to see how your nutritional needs change as you age and how certain foods can help you face the challenges of aging gracefully.

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Protect Your Skin from the Winter Elements with Your Diet

January 3, 2012 / Staff

Winter skin deserves a special diet.

We normally have a natural layer of oil that helps keep our skin soft and protect it from the environment, but harsh winter weather can suck the moisture right out of it. When your skin gets dry, it’s generally a sign that you’re doing something that’s stripping its natural oils. The good news is that you can keep your skin glowing all winter with a few changes to your diet.
Drink more water. The body loses more fluid with each breath when it’s cold and dry, so it’s fairly easy to get dehydrated in the winter. Try to drink eight 8-ounce glasses of water every day.

Check out more tips and find the foods that fight off the cold.

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Hard Wired to Be Fat?

January 3, 2012 / Staff

Lasting brain injuries in a specific part of the hypothalamus may be responsible for making it difficult to lose weight and keep it off.

“To explain a biologically elevated body weight ‘set-point’, investigators in the field have speculated about the existence of fundamental changes to brain neurocircuits that control energy balance. Our findings are the first to offer direct evidence of such a structural change, and they include evidence in humans as well as in mice and rats.”

It may make the struggle to keep off the pounds more difficult, however, any effort to lead a more healthy lifestyle is beneficial.

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Persevere to Lose Weight and Keep it Off

January 1, 2012 / Staff

Tenacity is the best way to keep off the weight.

With all the resolutions to lose weight being made this year it is easy to forget that reaching your goal involves a lot of changes.

And in making those changes there are bound to be a few slips along the way.

Well, it is not in the mistake but rather in the recovery where success is borne.

Behavior change is the cornerstone of healthy, successful weight loss and it takes about three months to establish a new behavior.
Only 20 percent of Americans who’ve tried to lose weight will keep the weight off after one year, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Bartfield offered the following tips to help reverse this trend and help people achieve and maintain their weight-loss goals.

Don’t forget to to give yourself some slack.

A few mistakes here and there is no reason to give up.