Primary Sites:
* Your Personal Trainer's Rules for Effective Weight Loss *
evalu8.org columnist Deborah Ramsay makes weight-loss -- and staying on track -- easy!
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Avoiding hidden calories (here's where they hide) *
Beware these hidden sources of calories, which can mean diet sabotage despite your best intentions.
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Before you sink your teeth into that burger ... *
These appear to be tough times for meat-eaters in Canada: ostracized by popular movies like Babe, Chicken Run, and The Meatrix (a cult Internet hit); lambasted in the bestselling book Fast Food Nation; fearful of mad-cow disease, avian flu and PCBs in farmed salmon.
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Canada's Most Veg-Friendly Cities: *
The word is that majestic Vancouver is Canada's most vegetarian-friendly city.
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Cheater's Diet says 'cheating' okay *
The author of The Cheater's Diet wants you to have your cake and eat it too... on weekends.
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Emergency declared to deal with dead fowl *
B.C.'s Emergency Preparedness Act was invoked Saturday to enable officials to begin disposing of the potentially millions of carcasses of poultry infected with Avian flu.
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Fructose sweetening could be even worse than using other sweeteners *
According to Pharmaceutical News, a University of Cincinnati (UC) study provides new evidence that drinking large amounts of beverages containing fructose adds body fat, and might explain why sweetening with fructose could be even worse than using other sweeteners
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Garber Gastronomic: New food choices for healthier lifestyles *
What kinds of food compromises do we need to make to accommodate changing lifestyles and diet regimens?
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Madelyn Miller's Guide to Healthy Eating & Lifestyle Books, 2005-2006 ****
Madelyn's picks for the best new books (and cookbooks) on diet plans, lifestyle improvement and improving your body and health!
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Meat eaters more likely to be obese than vegetarians *
A new study says that women who are vegetarians are less likely to be obese than those who eat meat.
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The effects of soy protein containing isoflavones on blood lipids *
It is well known that soy protein has a beneficial effect on blood lipids, but it has been unclear which components of soy protein are responsible for the health benefits. . .
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When meat is not murder *
Would you eat steak if it had been grown in a petri dish? It is the ultimate conundrum for vegetarians who think that meat is murder: a revolution in processed food that will see fresh meat grown from animal cells without a single cow, sheep or pig being killed.
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Secondary Sites:
* Your Personal Trainer's 2007 primer: Your weight -- and your Food Diary *
Here's a "Get Honest with Yourself 25-Point Daily Checklist". . .
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Beachbody *
"Decide. Commit. Succeed."
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Earthsave Canada presents Taste of Health 2007 *
The "Taste of Health 2007" is Vancouver's earth-friendly vegetarian food & lifestyle festival that takes place Saturday, September 29 and Sunday, September 30, 2007 in Vancouver, BC.
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High glycemic load increases stroke risk in overweight women *
A new study published in the American Journal of Epidemiology examined the association of dietary carbohydrate, glycemic index, and glycemic load with stroke risk among 78,779 U.S. women.
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Join a Weight-loss program online *
What is your ideal weight? Are you stuggling to maintain your good health and appropriate body-type? This program might offer just the solution you need. . .
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Portion control and high-nutrient foods are the keys if you want to lose weight *
Fad diets are often the culprit in our thwarted efforts to trim down.
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Vancouver's 7th Annual Vegetarian Friendly Food and Lifestyle Show *
October 1 - 2, 2005, Vancouver, BC
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