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How to Eat Less Without the Dreaded Hunger Pangs and Pains?

By Mike On October 26, 2009 4 Comments

Regardless of your experience with dieting – or what I like to call eating consciously – one major problem that everyone complains about is hunger pains. The inability to deal with hunger while dieting is one of the biggest reasons why many people fail on their diets and can’t lose weight.

Twilight\'s Edward Cullen adjusting his fangs. Wonder if he has hunger pangs?
[I said PANGS not FANGS! Poor Edward Cullen from the ridiculously famous Twilight movie can't even get his fangs in place above. FYI: Get ready to see a lot of vampire and werewolf costumes this Halloween. How original...]

The hunger pangs – must eat something…

OK… I’ll admit it. I thought it was “hunger pains” but informally it’s referred to “hunger pangs” when you start feeling those intense stomach

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Finding Calcium Sources Outside of Dairy

By Mike On March 11, 2009 1 Comment
I’ve been recently cutting down on diary because of some personal tolerance issues and the results have Milk is not your only source of calciumbeen shockingly dramatic. So much so that I’d like share this information on a future post with you. Back to the question at hand!

For decades, the staple dairy food “milk” has been proclaimed the ultimate source of dairy and for two very good reasons. The lactose (milk sugar) naturally in milk and the vitamin D added to it enhance calcium absorption through the gut. (For those who have trouble digesting lactose, ample calcium is absorbed from lactose-reduced milk and from yogurt with active cultures, which is also low in lactose.) But ounce for ounce, nonfat plain yogurt has more calcium than milk, although it contains no vitamin D. Among frozen dairy desserts, nonfat frozen yogurt is

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