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Finding Nutrition Facts for Weight Watchers
WeightWatchers uses a tool called POINTS Tracker that helps you keep track of the food you’re eating each day. The idea is that you have a point range that you need to within in order to see weight loss results. Although their POINTS Tracker tool has a ton of foods in their database, they don’t have all of them. That’s where their POINTS Calculator comes in. If you can’t find the food in their database, they have a tool that will calculate points for a particular food based on calories, fat and fiber. But what happens when you can’t find the food in their database and you don’t have the nutrition facts for it? That’s where NutritionData’s Nutrition Facts Calorie Counter comes in.
Their website has Nutrition Facts for most fast food restaurants and for other food like produce, meats and poultry. The thing I like about NutritionData’s website is that they go beyond the typical Nutrition Facts. They also display the moisture content, Caloric Ratio Pyramid, Nutrient Balance Indicator and Nutritional Target Map. However, most of the time, it’s just a good place to get the calories, fat and fiber numbers to plug into the the WeightWatchers’ POINTS Calculator.
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Vegetarianism Found To Be The Best Way To Lose Significant Weight
A new study was just released claiming that eating a vegetarian diet is the most effective way to lose weight.
The authors found that the body weight of both male and female vegetarians is, on average, 3 percent to 20 percent lower than that of meat-eaters. Vegetarian and vegan diets have also been put to the test in clinical studies, as the review notes. The best of these clinical studies isolated the effects of diet by keeping exercise constant. The researchers found that a low-fat vegan diet leads to weight loss of about 1 pound per week, even without additional exercise or limits on portion sizes, calories, or carbohydrates.
FamilyResource.com interviewed one of the authors, and the full story and transcript can be read in this article: New Research: The Most Effective Way To Lose Weight Is To Eat A Vegetarian Diet
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Obesity Before Pregnancy Linked To Childhood Weight Problems - Pregnancy And Baby
Results of the study, which included more than 3,000 children, suggest that a child is far more likely to be overweight at a very young age — at 2 or 3 years old — if his mother was overweight or obese before she became pregnant. A child is also at greater risk of becoming overweight if he is born to a black or Hispanic mother, or to a mother who smoked during her pregnancy.
And there’s a good chance that an overweight child will stay overweight for the rest of his or her life.
(Full Story - Via Google Search: pregnancy.)
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Hidden Appetite
Former New York Times food critic Ruth Reichl talks about the disguises she used, the madness of $500 meals and why restaurants are the great levelers.
Normally, a food critic wouldn’t really interest me, but Ruth Reichl just so happens to be an interesting person. The article highlights her new book, Garlic and Sapphires, and shows a much different look at the world of being a food critic. Reichl appears to be quite an observant and thoughtful person, as shown in this quote from the article:
“If you’re a rich person, you could spend your whole life eating vegetables that had never been touched by pesticides, eating animals that had never been inside a factory, eating all the pristine and wonderful organic foods that I’m thrilled about,” says Reichl. “If you’re a poor person you’re pretty much relegated to overprocessed junk, factory animals and pesticide-laden vegetables.”
You can read the full story at Salon.com:
http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2005/04/10/ruth_reichl/
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