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April 18, 2007 | Issue 112 |
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10 Scientifically-Proven Tips For a Healthier, Leaner Life
Here are 10 tips that can help improve your health and whittle down your waistline – and none of them comes in a package emblazoned with the words “trans fat free.”
PRITIKIN TIPS
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1. “Cut out the C.R.A.P. (Calorie-Rich and Processed) Foods,” insists dietitian Jeff
“Remember what you learned in label class at Pritikin: Don’t believe anything you see on the front of the label – like ‘trans fat free’ or ‘just 100 calories.’ Who cares if there are only 100 calories per package if you’ve got to rip open three or four before you’re full?”
2. Crank up the steps
Numerous studies have found that people who lose weight and keep it off commit to daily physical exercise. In the most comprehensive study of long-term weight control ever conducted, the National Weight Control Registry, scientists are keeping tabs on the habits of more than 5,000 Americans who have lost on average 66 pounds and kept them off for an average of six years. These long-term losers walk on average 60 minutes every day.
3. Get hot first thing in the morning
Hot cooked cereal like oatmeal, Kasha, and Wheatena has about one-fifth the calorie density of dried cereal. Hot cereal has just 300 to 400 calories per pound; dried cereals pack in a whopping 1,400 to 2,000 calories per pound.
By switching your morning bowl of corn flakes for a bowl of hot oatmeal and fruit, you’ll take in approximately 250 fewer calories each day, which means you’d drop about 25 pounds in one year.
4. Snack smart
Trade the chips, cookies, candy, fast food, and other junk snacks for bananas, bean soups, apples, grapes, red bell pepper slices, carrots, peaches, pears, and other fresh fruits and veggies.
The more fruits, veggies, and beans you eat, the more nutrients and fiber you take in, and that’s a very good thing. Fiber lowers your cholesterol, normalizes blood sugar levels, stabilizes insulin, helps prevent constipation, hemorrhoids, and certain cancers, and, last but not least, helps you fill up on fewer calories so that you can lose weight more easily.
“Fruits, vegetables, beans, and whole grains, in short, are the true stars, or ‘SuperFoods’ of this world, not resveratrol or soy nuts or dark chocolate or pomegranate juice. Foods like these get 15 minutes of fame. Fruit, veggies, beans, and whole grains have had thousands of years of fame,” points out Jeff Novick.
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Pritikin Perspective - Healthy Living Made Easier
Pritikin Perspective is a publication for Alumni of the Pritikin Longevity Center. It is dedicated to helping people make healthy changes in their lives. The articles in this publication should not be considered specific medical advice, as each individual circumstance is different. You are strongly encouraged to seek medical advice before beginning a program of diet and exercise.
Editor/Writer: Eugenia Killoran.
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