Fat & Weight Loss

There are many teenagers who have found themselves overweight and out of shape. This is because society encourages them to eat junk food and to play video games all day. Instead we should be encouraging our children to choose the healthy foods over the greasy ones and to go outside and walk, run, or [...]

Whether your goal is to lose weight or just “tone up,” your objective should be the same: to lose fat without sacrificing muscle. Otherwise, you’ll just end up as a fat thin person. In past issues of ETR, we’ve told you exactly how to do this: Base all your meals around a healthy source of [...]

A few ideas that I’ve gathered from reading, from fellow travelers, and from trial and error:
• Other than a glass of wine or beer with dinner, don’t drink on the plane. It will dehydrate you, which may give you a headache. (And besides, only obnoxious, loud people drink heavily on planes.)
• Force yourself to exercise [...]

During the past two decades, the number of people who use artificial, no-calorie sweeteners has more than doubled. At the same time, the prevalence of people who are overweight and obese has also increased dramatically. Here’s even more evidence that diet drinks can make you fat:
The International Journal of Obesity published a study showing that [...]