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What is a Healthy Diet
Healthy Weight Loss Rates
Strategies for Weight Loss
Candidates for Weight Loss
Resources for Healthy Weight Loss
How to Set Goals for Weight Loss
How to Spot a Fad Diet
How to Recognize a Dangerous Diet
The Set Point Theory of Healthy Living
Concepts of a Food Diary
How to Make a Food Diary
Judging Healthy Portion Sizes
How to Use Vitamins to Increase Metabolism
How to Use Minerals to Increase Metabolism
How to Pick Nutrient Dense Foods for Weight Loss
Foods to Avoid for Weight Loss
The Importance of Hydration in Weight Loss
Batch Cooking Techniques
How to Pick Healthy Snacks
Snack Foods to Avoid During Dieting
Grocery Shopping for Healthy Weight Loss
Eating Habits for Healthy Weight Loss
How to Exercise for Healthy Weight Loss
Techniques for Healthy Weight Loss
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Brenda Thompson is a registered dietician and professional chef with the Westlake Market H.E.B. in Austin, Texas.read more
"Hi, I'm Brenda Thompson, registered dietitian and owner of Life Skills Nutrition. We just covered some healthy snacks that we want to consume, and I'm going to show you some snacks that you want to try to avoid. These snacks are full of sugar and not very many nutrients and can help cause some road blocks when we are trying to lose weight. So over here we have chips, which provide a lot of calories, hydrogenated fats, saturated fats, and they're very high in salt. So you want to try to avoid those. Candy, which is loaded with sugar and has very little nutrients. They're pretty much all sugar, however, they do taste good and when eating in very small amounts, that's fine. As long as we're putting them on our food log. We want to try to avoid foods that contain artificial sweeteners and additives because even though they're not really high in sugar, they may also not be very high in nutrients like we saw in the food guide pyramid. We want to try to get all of those vitamins, and minerals, and antioxidants. Processed snack foods that claim they contain fruits and vegetables in them are also products that you want to try to avoid. You should never replace fruits and vegetables with snacks. Pastries are very loaded with sugar, and they provide very little nutrients, although they're very beautiful. Also, candy which contains the cocoa butter and high saturated fat and other fats, are also loaded with sugar and are very low in nutrients and should be avoided. These foods do taste good, and we should never restrict ourself completely from eating them. However, maybe allowing ourselves to eat them once a week or once every two weeks is more appropriate when we are trying to lose weight and become healthier individuals. "
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HarryJohnsonJr said
on 5/1/2009 How would you like to lose weight fast and easy and NOT HAVE TO CUT OUT your favorite junk foods? Sure, you can do it like Rachel said in the video, but does this mean never eating your favorite junk foods ever again? Come on... I just don't think that is possible for the average person.
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About the author of this post:
Harry Johnson Jr won the 1998 Body For Life contest. Since then he's dedicated his life to helping others get in shape, get healthy, and get fit. See his blog post on how to get into great shape by eating junk food on a regular basis at: http://www.harryjohnsonjr.com/fast-weight-loss-diet/does-a-fast-weight-loss-diet-a-fad-diet/