Is Your Diet Very Healthy? Take this Quiz

The world's healthiest foods website (whfoods.org) has a quiz you can take to see how much of the healthiest foods you are eating and based on your answers, it will tell you what vitamins and nutrients you are probably lacking.

Check out the quiz here.

This non-profit website was founded by a guy who became a wealthy mogul by starting a health food company called Health Valley Foods in 1970. Though his principles were sound, the food was mostly packaged, convenience food. He sold the company in 1996 and now operates this non-profit web-site to give back and also possibly to atone for selling too many granola bars over the years.

The healthiest foods are non-packaged, non-processed foods.

This is the best site we've seen on truly healthy foods and it gives the highest quality information about their nutritional values. Check out the 100 healthiest foods.

Weight Loss for Men - Visualize It

If you have an iPhone or iTouch and are a male who wants to lose weight, check out this Virtual Weight Loss Avatar for men. It's fun to get visual milestones for each few pounds you lose.

As with the similar app for women (Virtual Weight Loss for Women), this app is based on BMI calculations so it will look different for men who weigh the same but are different heights.

Outdoor Exercise for Weight Loss

Here's a fun story from a discussion about mindless eating. Photo via wheany.

Outdoor Cat v.s Indoor Cat:

Living in the country we had pet cats that lived outdoors.

All of these outdoor cats had to be called to come to eat and did not beg for food. Most of the time they were 50 to 100 yards away from our house. Being predators they were constantly roaming, killing mice and occasionally a bird and patrolling their territory of a couple of acres. Needless to say all of these cats during my childhood were healthy, lean and fit cats.

As young adults we took our pet country cat to live with us in our apartment. The cat ate more food. Begged for food. Yowled for more food and was always underfoot looking for more food. He was left alone most of the day to an empty apartment. He quickly gained a huge amount of weight. Seeing that he was not fit for apartment living and was getting to be a fat cat with nothing better to do than beg for food, we took back home to our parents in the country.

Quickly, the cat lost weight and stopped begging for food since he had mice to chase and a couple of acres to patrol and occupy his time.

We humans sit in our homes watching TV and "reality shows", playing on the computer playing virtual games and wonder why we get fat.

Weight Loss Pictures

Weight Loss Pictures is a complete guide for those people who are struggling to lose weight. The blog provides information regarding one's obesity problem, weight problems with pictures added to it making it more clear. I had came up with idea of writing this blog to help millions of people across the globe suffering from weight gain and simlar health problems. When I googled for weight loss pictures, I was very depressed for not finding any websites that had both weight loss articles and pictures at the same time. So I decided of writing this blog containing both articles with pictures which makes the articles easy enough to understand.

The blog also provides information on Weight Loss Management, Weight Loss Surgery (Bariatric Surgery), weight loss diet and exercise. It also contains articles on Celebrity and weight loss along with before after pictures.
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Losing 200 Pounds

Becky Griggs has lost an amazing 200 pounds. At her heaviest, six years ago, she weighed 352.

She now weighs 150 and has become a personal trainer. She's 43 years old and the mother of two grown children.

Becky cut out sugar and flour from her diet. She eats five times a day and works out regularly. Check out her story at CNN (From Fat to Gym Rat) and see her short video below;

Slim Fast Recall

Ten million cans of Slim-Fast ready to drink products are being recalled due to a possible health risk. Slim-Fast is owned by Unilever and in cooperation with the FDA they are recalling the products because of the possibility of contamination with Bacillus cereus, a micro-organism, which may cause diarrhea and possibly nausea and/or vomiting. The probability of serious adverse health consequences is remote.

These ready to drink products were being sold in stores nationwide.

No other Slim-Fast® products are affected by this recall. No Slim-Fast® powdered shakes, meal bars, or snack bars are included.

Consumers who have bought Slim-Fast® RTD products in cans are urged to discard them immediately and contact the company at 1-800-896-9479 for a full refund.

Weight Loss Management

Many people find it difficult to lose weight and manage it. They try everything to look good by losing weight, but they can't. Weight Loss Management deals with the right strategies that you can follow to lose weight and manage it. You can do so by eating correctly and doing more regular exercise as possible. This way you can burn more calories than you eat which is the main aim of weight loss- "Doing more and getting less". At the same time if you want to manage your weight after losing weight, you should burn equal amount of calories that you consume through your food. This might sound difficult. But with the correct diet (see more on Weight Loss Diet) and consistent exercise you can do so. Here are some of the few steps that you can follow to manage your weight:

1. Eating low-calorie foods, especially foods highly rich in protein (see more on Protein Weight Loss)
2. Doing more and more exercise on a regular basis (see more on Weight Loss Exercise)
3. Drinking plenty of water in a day (see more on Water Weight Loss)
4. Eating fruits and vegetables (see more on Fruits and Vegetables) and specially foods with high fiber content. (see more on Fiber Weight Loss)
5. Avoid smoking (see more on Smoking and Weight Loss)
Simply follow these steps, and still if you find it hard then it would be better to ask your dietician or health care team.
Now there is one more thing that I have to tell you - "Losing weight might be difficult than gaining weight but this doesn't mean that weight loss (see more on Weight Loss) has to be a struggle."

Nicole Richie Current Pictures of 2009

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Nicole Richie casual street style - April 6, 2009

aww..isn't she cute? Nicole looks amazing too. Good going Nicole.

Nicole Richie with her daughter Harlow Winter Kate Madden

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