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Here’s a quick trick for killing a craving:

27 Wednesday Jan 2021

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Visualize the ingredients in it! For example, if you want to avoid sugary soda, visualize 10-cubes of sugar in that one drink. Or, if a candy bar sounds tempting, picture test tubes filled with emulsifiers or preservatives, like tertiary butyl hydroquinone. According to Dr. Mehmet Oz, when we SEE what we’re considering consuming, we’re much less likely to want it.

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Here’s a quick trick for killing a craving:

21 Monday Jan 2019

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Visualize the ingredients in it! For example, if you’re wanting to avoid sugary soda, use your imagination, and visualize 10 sugar cubes stacked in a glass. Or, if a candy bar sounds tempting, picture test tubes filled with chemicals, like the preservatives and emulsifiers you can’t pronounce on candy bar packages. According to Dr. Mehmet Oz, when we SEE what we’re actually considering consuming, we’re much less likely to want it.

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Be careful with gummy vitamins for adults.

13 Monday Jun 2016

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They taste like candy – but of course, they aren’t. And if you pop too many, you can get vitamin toxicity. Most nutrients have an “upper tolerable intake level” – or UL. And if you go above that, you could experience nausea, vomiting, and kidney problems. For gummy multi-vitamins, typically eating more than 8 will trigger that reaction. So only eat the recommended amount, and buy a bag of real gummy bears to get your candy fix.

Here’s an easy way to improve your life:

14 Monday Sep 2015

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Drink more water. Nutritionist Dr. Grace Webb says 75% of us are chronically dehydrated. And it doesn’t take much to get to that point – losing just 1.5% of the water in our body will do it! Here are a few other reasons to drink more water:

•It’ll tame your sweet tooth. Cardiologist Dr. John Higgins says that your liver needs water to transform stored energy into the sugars that fuel your cells. And being just a few ounces short disrupts that process, and makes us crave sugar from other sources – like candy and donuts.

•Drinking more water also reduces aches and pains. According to the Mayo Clinic, our bodies need a minimum of 8 cups a day to operate efficiently. Less than that, and our electrolyte levels get out of whack and our blood gets thicker, and flows more slowly, making our heart work harder. Which leads to headaches, constipation, and muscle pain.

•Finally: More water equals safer road trips. A study in the journal Physiology and Behavior shows that being dehydrated will literally double your risk of an accident while driving. That’s because it throws off the balance of important brain neurotransmitters and gives us the reaction time of a drunk driver.

Is the sugar in fruit the same as the sugar in candy? 

31 Tuesday Mar 2015

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Nope! When the natural sugar, or fructose, is accompanied by the fiber in fruit, the combination helps slow digestion and keeps your blood sugar stable. But when it comes to candy and sweets, they’re made with refined sugar and high-fructose corn syrup. Those fly through your system, and the energy crash that follows leaves you craving more sweets. However, you have to eat fruit whole for the digestive slow-down to take effect.

Guess which foods have more sugar.

05 Thursday Jun 2014

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ImageReduced-fat peanut butter or barbecue sauce? The barbecue sauce has more sugar!
Honey-mustard pretzels or whole gain crackers? The crackers have more sugar!
Jelly beans or dried sweetened cranberries? The cranberries have more added sugar!
Did you see a pattern there? Foods we think are healthy can be loaded with added sugar! So check the ingredient list. If you see sugar in the TOP 5 ingredients – skip it.

One of the hardest things about losing weight is giving up all your favorite foods.

28 Friday Mar 2014

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But you don’t have to. Just give up one! Just letting go of one of your favorite vice foods can make a huge difference.

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For example, letting go of candy & sweets could save you at least 300 calories a day. That’s because the simple carbs in candy digest quickly, leading to a spike-and-crash in your energy level which makes you eat more. I gave up sugar a couple years ago and I had some cravings in the beginning, especially after dinner, but now I no longer get that horrible crash-feeling an hour after I eat a chocolate soufflé. My family thinks I’m crazy, but I take a whiff of the after dinner dessert and that’s all I need.

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