Tag: weight-loss
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Put meditation on the menu to boost weight loss success
When embarking on a diet, the focus is usually on healthy eating and exercise. Researchers from Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, USA, recently found mindfulness meditation beneficial to the prevention and treatment of obesity in children. A French NutriNet-Santé study from December 2015 revealed that regular meditation could reduce the risk of obesity by 50%.
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The Best Diet Ever: Three Key Ingredients
As weight loss and maintenance is one of my specialties, I am often asked, “What is the best diet?” People are often disappointed by my response. I tell them, “The best diet meets three conditions:It's a healthy diet.It's a diet that includes your favorite foods, in moderation, even if they're not entirely healthy.It's a diet…
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Medellin: The Right Place and Time for Collaborative Learning in Public Health
by Negeen Darani, Harvard Humanitarian InitiativePhoto by Kevin Dooley. Today marks Day 2 of the Post-Conflict Colombia and Public Health course — a project of the Open Hands Initiative and Harvard Humanitarian Initiative (HHI), in collaboration with the University of Antioquia School of Medicine. Sixteen students from the Harvard T.H. Chan…
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Weight Loss Advice: Try a 1500 Calorie Diet Plan
The truth of weight loss is that there is a plethora of advice out there; but what parts and aspects of it are relevant and helpful to one’s own personal situation and desires? That is the hard part of weight loss, and the 1500 calorie diet is a drastic and incredible way to shed unwanted…