The first stop on the road to weight loss may be at your refrigerator or pantry door. The family's food supply can be full of diet-wrecking items.

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When it comes to beverages, I tend to be a purist, craving only water, black tea or red wine for my drinking needs. The latest heat- wave, however, found me looking around in my fridge for anything cool to give me respite from the 100+ degree weather. I tentatively grabbed the can of Jones GABA Fuji Apple Tea-Juice that had been sitting in the refrigerator, neglected because it wasn’t one of my three favorite beverages. I had been meaning to try it - all in the name of fair trade - but the las

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If you’ve ever thought that your favorite food was “calling your name,” irresistibly drawing you to the refrigerator, it’s not just all in your head. Well, actually it is in your head. But, it’s very real. Let me explain… A study at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas has found that fat from certain foods goes to the brain and triggers the brain to send messages to the cells in the body, telling them to ignore the appetite-suppressing signals from leptin and in

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It’s almost midnight and hunger is drawing you to the refrigerator. Should you resist or should you snack? If you’ve eaten lightly during the day and can afford the calories, a midnight snack that’s nutritious, but low in calories can reduce hunger pangs and help you get to sleep – particularly if you make the right food choices. Although it may be tempting, that carton of Ben and Jerry’s premium ice cream probably isn’t the best way to top off the evening. Fortunately, you have other options. H

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If your desire is to be a symbol of health as a woman, then you must have 5 essential things in your refrigerator. Vitamins, minerals, fiber, protein, calcium, and antioxidants are all important parts of being a healthy woman and are all things contained in the following five foods that every woman must have. 1. Milk According to the National Osteoporosis Foundation, 8 million women are estimated to have osteoporosis, and millions will have osteoporosis-related bone fractures as a result, thi

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