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Over-the-counter weight-loss pills: Do they work? - M  
• No quick fix There's no magic bullet for losing weight. The most effective way to lose weight and keep it off is through lifestyle changes: Eat healthy, low-calorie foods, watch portion sizes, and engage in regular physical activity. It's certainly no magic pill, but it works.
http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/weight-loss/HQ01160
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Walking: Is it enough for weight loss? - MayoClinic.co  
Answer Consuming fewer calories is often the most effective way to lose weight. Still, an increase in physical activity is an important part of any weight-loss program. And walking is a great way to get started. For motivation, do the math: To lose 1 pound, you must burn 3,500 calories....
https://www.mayoclinic.com/health/walking/AN01773
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children with DIABETES - Ask the Diabetes Team  
Answer: Coupled with moderate reduction in food, regular exercise is the most effective way to lose weight. If you eat and drink only as many calories as your body needs, your weight will remain the same. It is when you eat more calories than your body needs that you begin to put on extra...
http://www.childrenwithdiabetes.com/dteam/1998-02/d_0d_2cf.htm
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Consumer Reports Health - Eating & weight - An  
Starving yourself can seem like a way to control difficult emotions and stress. You may think that losing weight is the key to a better, happier and more successful life. Anorexia is a real and serious illness. It's not a diet that's gone wrong or a fad. It's one of a group of illnesses...
https://www.consumerreports.org/health/treatment-centers/eating-and-...
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Cognitive change in obese adolescents losing weight.  
2004 Feb - Obesity research
Barton SB, Walker LL, Lambert G, Gately PJ, Hill AJ
Academic Unit of Psychiatry & Behavioural Sciences, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom.
... improvement, campers remained cognitively more negative and dysfunctional than the normal-weight comparison adolescents. DISCUSSION: Obese adolescents not only lost weight, but they improved their self-representation, specifically in terms of automatic thoughts about exercise and appearance. Although...
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Patents; Inventors do their part to help fulfill those per  
Patents; Inventors do their part to help fulfill those perennial resolutions to lose weight. Published: January 1, 2001 EXERCISE while you clean, or take a shower or ride in an airplane. That is the promise of several new exercise systems that have been awarded patents, just in time for...
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Weight-Loss Theory Is Losing Some of Its Strength -  
Books like Kathy Smith's ''Lift Weights to Lose Weight'' also perpetuate the myth that building muscle supercharges metabolism and quickly leads to weight loss. In ''Smart Girls Do Dumbbells,'' Judith Sherman-Wolin claims that resistance-training can ''melt away those stubborn pounds you've...
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Consumer Reports Health - Eating & weight - Ob  
• You're more likely to lose weight if you get help from a health professional. • If you're very obese, surgery can help you lose a lot of weight. But there are risks with surgery so doctors usually recommend it only if your weight is a danger to your health.
https://www.consumerreports.org/health/treatment-centers/eating-and-...
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Keeping Weight Off - New York Times  
Such accounts of the weight epidemic in this country are clearly unhelpful in that they undercut any motivation one may have to engage in a healthier lifestyle in an effort to lose weight. JOSH SACCO East Lansing, Mich.
Science - Oct 24, 2000
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Guide to a healthy heart, lose extra pounds  
... wholesale cutback on carbs, like the approach popularized by the Atkins diet? Recent research has found that for up to a year, some people can indeed safely lose weight on Atkins. But it’s a hard diet to follow, and successful losers in the National Weight Control Registry overwhelmingly report...
http://www.consumerreports.org/health/medical-conditions-treatments/...
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Car Talk  
My wife told me the car wasn't running well because there was water in the carburetor. I asked where the car was, she told me, "In the lake." My wife is on a new diet: Coconuts and bananas. She hasn't lost weight, but BOY, can she climb a tree now.
http://www.cartalk.com/content/read-on/2001/08.18-2.html
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Car Talk  
Allowing for the 1,200 latent calories in the dessert, the net calorie loss is approximately 5,000 calories. Obviously, the more cold dessert you eat, the better off you are and the faster you will lose weight, if that is your goal.
http://www.cartalk.com/content/read-on/1997/11-14-97-1.html
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NRDC: Healthy Milk, Healthy Baby - Notes  
... Newton, N. "Psychological Differences Between Breast and Bottle Feeding," American Journal of Clinical Nutrition 1971; 24: p. 993-1004. Lose weight. Kramer, F.M., et al. "Breast Feeding Reduces Maternal Lower Body Fat," Journal of the American Diet Association 1993; 93(4): p. 429-433.
http://www.nrdc.org/breastmilk/notes.asp
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RealClimate - Comments on Les Chevaliers de l'Ordr  
... past several years, the sea ice in the arctic has been declining. Maybe it will rebound some in the next year or the year after.It’s like losing weight the trend isn’t straight down but moves in a wavy pattern on its way down. Basing a conclusion on what happens in any one year is inclusive...
http://www.realclimate.org/?comments_popup=501
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Kelly Ogle  
... tourist at Niagara Falls, doing the “Maid of the Mist” boat ride up to the base of the Falls (highly recommended!). Still feeling strong, still losing weight, and heading back to the trail Saturday. My collarbone is all healed (I think I told you that story—stress fracture jumping off rocks...
http://www.monolake.org/committee/ogle.htm
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Cognitive change in obese adolescents losing weight.  
2004 Feb - Obesity research
Barton SB, Walker LL, Lambert G, Gately PJ, Hill AJ
Academic Unit of Psychiatry & Behavioural Sciences, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom.
... adolescents think about themselves in terms of exercise, eating, and appearance and whether these cognitions change over the course of a residential weight loss camp. RESEARCH METHODS AND PROCEDURES: Obese adolescents [N = 61; age, 14.1 (+/-0.2) years; BMI, 33.9 (+/-0.7) kg/m(2)] completed assessments...
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Sleeping more as a way to lose weight.  
2006 Aug - Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity
Sivak M
The University of Michigan, Transportation Research Institute, 2901 Baxter Road, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2150, USA. sivak@umich.edu
... proportional to the number of hours of being awake. Thus, replacing 1 h of inactive wakefulness (e.g. watching TV), with sleeping is likely to result in a substantial reduction in caloric intake. Calculations are presented to illustrate the possible benefits of such a switch on weight reduction.
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