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| The Zefaril Weight Loss Trimming System! |
A weight loss system that focusses on stress reduction.
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| Health-e-Weight for Women |
This comprehensive site emphasizes healthful eating, which includes information on weight management, but does not encourage dieting as a means to lose weight. The articles cover nutrition basics, tips for easy shopping, the importance of exercise, and long-term strategies for weight maintenance. Interactive tools, such as body mass index, physical activity, and waist-to-hip ratio calculators can help you determine and monitor your goals.
We like the inclusion of “Emotions,” a section that explains why we eat and discusses body image and the importance of connecting thoughts to behaviors. We applaud the authors for touching on this, but the information is brief and users may need to talk with their health care provider about some of the mental strategies in more detail.
Note that the food guide pyramid promoted on this site is not the same as the USDA’s Food Guide Pyramid. The pyramid here was created by a Harvard epidemiologist and emphasizes exercise, vegetable oils, and whole-grain foods, with less emphasis on red meat, dairy products, and certain starchy foods like potatoes and pasta.
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| FitDay |
Fit Day – a Website designed to help with weight loss, fitness, and nutrition goals – takes the food and exercise diary to a new level. Pie charts and bar graphs; daily, weekly, and monthly records; calories consumed versus calories expended; this site is perfect for those who like to track progress visually or analytically.
The activity list is one of the most specific we’ve seen. Walking can be tailored to an exact calorie expenditure level by specifying backpacking, carrying weights, pushing a stroller, or using crutches.
Sensible weight loss and healthful eating advice – based on the Food Guide Pyramid – can be found here too.
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| Lowfat Lifestyle |
If you’re looking for advice on how to eat a low-fat diet, Lowfat Lifestyle may be a good place to start.
The “Lifestyle” section links to information on different dietary patterns from different organizations, such as the USDA Food Guide Pyramid and the American Heart Association. “Recipes” contains a plethora of low-fat recipes with nutrition information per serving, and “Dining Out” offers advice on how to maintain a lowfat lifestyle while eating out (although we wonder how many diners would actually order Jell-O for dessert).
The site also has a calculator that allows you to calculate your body mass index (BMI) and a calorie calculator to calculate how many calories you burn by running. Unfortunately, the calorie calculator doesn’t calculate calories burned by other activities besides running.
This site can serve as a useful stop on your journey toward learning more about eating a low-fat diet. Just keep in mind that adopting the “low-fat lifestyle” it promotes won’t necessarily make you “healthier, happier, trimmer and more energetic,” as the site implies. Remember that calories also a play a role in weight control and that not all fats are necessarily “bad.”
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| The Diet Channel |
Think of this site as a “Yellow Pages” of online nutrition information. Hundreds of links divided by category connect readers to articles on weight loss, sports nutrition, herbs, and more. The author has used good judgement in selecting links to government, university, and health sites that provide credible nutrition information. For people who prefer their reading material on paper, the site includes a collection of recommended nutrition-related books. “Cool Tools” links to sites that offer recipe analyses, diet analyses, meal plans, and interactive weight calculators.
Stick to these sections, though. The site has partnered with eDiets.com - a website that sells weight loss plans - and links to eDiets and it’s plans are scattered throughout. Although cast as diet reviews, these are actually sales promotions.
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