Is Food Noise Running your Life?
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Why Am I Always Hungry? 6 Reasons (None Is Willpower)
Willpower isn’t the problem — if you know what to do. The fridge again, an hour after dinner. Or hungry by 10am after what seemed like a proper breakfast. And underneath it, the worry that grows with the waistline: is something…
Food Noise: Why You Can’t Stop Thinking About Food
What’s for lunch? Should I have that? I shouldn’t have had that. When’s the next meal? If some version of that loop runs in your head, you already know food noise from the inside: food thoughts that show up uninvited…
How to Stop Being Hungry: Meals That Keep You Full
You know the lunch. It looked right — a sandwich, maybe a modest salad — and by the middle of the afternoon you were hungry again, standing in front of the pantry or negotiating with the vending machine. The advice…
Can You Reduce Heart Plaque? A New Study Found It Shrinks When LDL Drops
What you’ll learn: What the new study found The trial, published in JAMA Cardiology on October 30, followed 104 people in Denmark, newly diagnosed with coronary artery disease. None had ever taken a cholesterol drug. Half received atorvastatin at a…
Why Hunger Matters in Weight Loss—and How iDiet Approaches It
A BMJ review coauthored by iDiet founder Dr. Susan B. Roberts helps explain the science of weight management — including controlling hunger and making lasting changes in how we eat. In short: Losing weight requires eating less than your body…
Probiotics for Weight Loss: What the Research Really Shows
Can Probiotics Help You Lose Weight? The supplement aisle has a new section. Probiotics used to live next to the digestive remedies — good bacteria for an upset stomach, the label seemed to say — but the newer bottles have…
How to Stop Sugar Cravings: Work With Your Hunger and Habits
You finish dinner feeling satisfied. Twenty minutes later, you are looking for something sweet. Or perhaps it happens at three in the afternoon. You have been busy, lunch was small, and suddenly the cookies in the kitchen seem much more…
Date labels: Best by vs use by vs sell by — what’s the difference?
Something changed on the package this year, but it wasn’t the food. In California, any packaged food made after July 1 that carries a date now has to use one of two phrases. BEST if Used by means the date…
A Weight-Loss Diet for High Cholesterol: How Fiber Helps
If your doctor has told you to lose weight and lower your cholesterol, you may feel you have been given two assignments and very little guidance about how to accomplish either. Eat less food. Eat better food. Eat more good…
“Food Noise” Is Real. The Diagnosis Isn’t.
Everyone’s Talking About It — Including People Trying to Sell You Something A new survey in the news this week shows that roughly 1 in 5 American adults (about 18%) say they often or always experience “food noise” — persistent,…