While most people of the world struggle for enough to eat, those of us with weight problems have too much, and eat too much. What a paradox! Obesity isn’t just a disease of poverty, either–many people with little or no money are still overweight. What then, is the cause of the problem? It’s about feeding…

Here’s an idea to try in the kitchen. Vegetable pizza. Get some bread dough (from a mix, pop-out can, a home-made dough recipe, or use a bread machine on the dough cycle). Spread it out on a lightly greased cookie sheet. Spoon some tomato spaghetti sauce on it, and grate some fresh low-fat (skim) mozzarella…

There’s a lot of talk these days about eating less, calorie restriction and fasting.  Not just because of Lent, but finding easy, or easier ways to have less food so that weight loss and weight maintenance can at last be achieved. Please post a comment below – tell us if you’ve been fasting, or thought…

Be careful when weaning yourself from one habit that you don’t pick up another. It’s a natural tendency, especially for those of us who tend to use food to fill emotional gaps. Just because you may not be eating so much, don’t substitute your old too-much-food habit with a new habit of too-much-coffee, cigarettes, sweets…

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