Eating breakfast equals weight loss
Indulging in the morning can help you shed pounds.
Eating a large breakfast can help you stay slim. When Venezuelan and U. S. researchers put women on low-carb diets of 1,085 and 1,240 calories a day, with the latter group eating a larger breakfast of 610 more calories, the two groups lost an average of 28 and 21 pounds respectively over four months. But during the ensuing four months, the small-breakfast group reversed itself, gaining an average of 18 pounds, while the big breakfast group lost another 16.5 pounds. The big breakfast eaters were able to sustain their low-carb diet, whereas the small breakfast group were unable to control their addictive eating impulses and their craving for carbohydrates.
November 1, 2008 
Food scientists want to set the record straight about carbohydrates—the food group made up of starches, sugar, and fiber.
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The Mediterranean diet, heavy in cereals, fruits, vegetables, and omega-3 fatty acids, has been shown to be protective against heart disease. Recent studies suggest it may also be linked to lower risk for asthma in children. In the latest study, Mexican researchers found children who adhered to a Mediterranean-style diet showed a 40 percent decrease [...]
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Tips from the Kitchen Getting Garlic Smell off of Your Fingers Three words: salt, lemon, steel. One way to remove the odor is to rub salt on your fingers. The salt will absorb the odor, and then you can rinse the salt away with hot soapy water. Or, rub lemon juice on your hands or [...]
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Grapes may be an antidote to high blood pressure caused by too much dietary salt. University of Michigan scientists put rats on high-sodium diets and gave some of them blood pressure-lowering medication, and others powder made from whole grapes. Both groups developed high blood pressure, but the systolic pressure remained lower than in rats that [...]
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Tart cherries may be just what your doctor and your fitness trainer ordered. University of Michigan researchers recently found rats fed a diet high in freeze-dried whole cherries reduced their body fat by almost 10 percent, most of it off their bellies where the most dangerous fat for heart disease in humans is found. The [...]
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