It gets stored in your muscles or is excreted in the urine. Families with overweight children should keep no sweets, snacks or other munchies in the house. Eggs can again be part of a healthy, weight-loss diet. It's OK to make poor food choices while dieting as long as you take a multivitamin and mineral supplement. You can have some of your favorite fattening foods while you're on a diet.
Food often seems to be somewhere on New Year's resolution lists.
Usually people vow to eat less so they'll lose weight. But if you simply eat better, you may lose weight anyway. Here are 52 ways to eat better in 2001, including tips on how to increase calcium, fiber and vegetables in your diet, why chewing flaxseeds might help you shed pounds, how bread lowers your risk of heart attack and a good excuse for eating more blueberries. The entire concept is building on the research studies that link the importance of diet in combating diseases, with science's added knowledge about the disease preventing phytonutrients present in food stuffs. The major phytonutrients identified to have nutraceuticals properties include terpenes, phytosterole, phenols and theols.