We all know that even the best weight-loss plan can be beaten up by uncontrollable food cravings. How can we cope with them? Amanda Brown, a healthy lifestyle boffin from AllWomensTalk, offers an easy way to zip up those unhealthy yearnings for sweet and fatty treats. In order to nip food cravings and lose weight successfully, all we need is to avoid five particular products!

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For many dieters, maintaining their weight loss in a long run is a hard task. It seems like all physiological mechanisms that regulate hormones, fat stores, brain signals and metabolism are working against keeping off those lost pounds!

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There exists a common “dietary myth” about frequent snacking, which states that eating numerous small meals a day speeds up metabolic processes and promotes weight loss. However, a new Australian study has revealed that the “snack diet” does not help people lose excess pounds any faster than a conventional, three-meal-a-day dietary plan.

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Bariatric surgery and other invasive, surgical ways to treat obesity are becoming increasingly popular among severely overweight Americans. However, according to new data provided by the American Gastroenterological Association, the long-term health toll of such operations can well overweight their initial success in helping people shed some pounds. Severe complications, including fecal and urinary incontinence, diarrhea, fungal and bacterial infections of the gastrointestinal tract, and chronic malabsorption of nutrients leading to deficiency diseases, can be a consequence of attempting to manage obesity by surgical means.

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We all are heavily influenced by “fat myths”, which are spread by “healthy lifestyle” propaganda on TV and at doctors’ offices, and which are often perceived by us as unquestionable truths. For example, many of us believe that eating animal fats is bad because this is what gives as tummy bulges, fat thighs, and high cholesterol.

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