Green Drink Diet, Lose Weight with SuperFoods

Before you make breakfast and drink that morning coffee, try making yourself a green drink smoothie. Choose your favorite green drink and mix with fresh berries, rice or almond milk and a little maple syrup. You may find that you aren’t even hungry for breakfast. And the nutrition you’ll get is far better than any traditional breakfast you might have eaten.

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Sensible Weight Loss

A lot of people ask me what I think they should do to lose weight or what I think of some diet plan or other. Is white bread worse than sugar? Is it ok to eat olive oil? What about fruit like bananas and papayas? It seems everyone wants to know some special trick or validate what they’ve heard about some exotic supplement or diet plan. There’s the grapefruit diet, Hootia, guarana supplements…the list goes on and on. One person I spoke to was convinced that she should avoid all white foods.

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Lose Weight Naturally: Nature Lends a Hand

Losing weight does not have to be a struggle. Nature provides all kinds of herbs and foods that help you feel full, increase energy and metabolism, and process fats and sugars more efficiently. Here is a list of some of the best herbal supplements that you can add to a weight control program. Mix and match for best results, depending on your needs.

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Trans-Fatty Acids: There's no Debate

Margarine producers would love for you to think that the butter vs. margarine debate is still alive and well. But the debate was over some time ago. The discovery of trans fatty acids in margarine (which coat your arteries with fat deposits) delivered the final blow. Even if you once thought it was worth eating a semi-plastic hydrogenated oil (and all the poinsonous yellow dye added to it to mask its normally dark color) in order to save a whopping 3 grams of fat per tablespoon over butter, it should now be clear that since 2 of those 5 grams of fat in margarine are trans fats (responsible for all kinds of horrible stoppages in the body), you're better off just getting the flavor and fat of butter.


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