The three keys to losing

Published:Tuesday, April 29, 2008

The three keys to losing

EDITOR:

One of the first signs of spring is the arrival of the neighborhood joggers, seeking the warmth of the sun to melt away their excess pounds. To all those fair-weather, flub-averse enthusiasts, I offer this bit of advice: If you want to lose weight, throw away your bathroom scale and buy a kitchen scale.

Losing weight requires just three elements: knowledge, discipline and will power. You need to know food and your body. In this regard, a pocket-sized simple calorie counting book will do. It will list the most common foods and their calorie content for a given portion. Always be aware of portion size. A bowl of cereal is not a bowl of cereal. It is an ounce of cereal in a bowl.

A pound of fat is 3,500 calories. If your weight is stable, keep track of your calorie intake for a few weeks. Once you know how many calories you are eating, reduce it by 500 hundred a day. At that level, you will lose one pound a week

No need to rush.

Of course, there is a lot more knowledge than this. You need to learn about the impact of fiber, exercise, saturated fats and vitamins on your diet and health. Also, a visit to the doctor can help you determine if your weight is a function of your health or your appetite. All these bits of information will help you formulate a reasonable approach to weight loss.

The next element is discipline. You want to be in control of your diet. You don

So control what you can control, which is your calorie intake, not your weight. With knowledge, you will set your calorie intake target, transfer it to a piece of graph paper, and then stick that graph to the refrigerator door. At the end of each day, plot the number of calories you had on the graph, which compares it to your target and allows you to make any necessary corrections.

Of course you can weigh yourself

THOMAS MASKELL

Poland

Banish the V8, save gas

EDITOR:

I am tired of hearing the politician give lip service to the cost of gasoline. As usual, they must introduce all kinds of ifs, ands or buts to generate hundreds of pages of politico babble.

As far as I can see from personal experience I can unequivocally state that the age of the V8 muscle car must come to an end. My two full-size cars are V6s and are easily and quickly able to hit 85 mph if and when needed for passing. Also both on a trip to Annapolis, Md., can average 32 miles per gallon.

Who needs a V8? Get rid of them except for the after market to the

A new study shows that people suffering from chronic liver disease, weight loss and increased movement will help enhance liver function, thereby improving the quality of life.

Published in the recently published digestive tract, the magazine of the study, 31 overweight against the liver disease patients by 15 months of weight loss and fitness training. Of which 18 patients with type C (HCV) hepatitis, 13 were suffering from other chronic liver disease. They conducted by the fitness and nutrition plan, including regular meetings of experts, the weekly two and a half hours of aerobic exercise.

The researchers said the study period, 21 patients successfully reduce the weight of a few pounds, and to maintain good. The weight of all patients with an average of 9 percent. How much weight loss and liver function to measure the level of liver enzymes be associated with. Is critical to maintain weight loss, 10 patients because he can not keep, in liver enzyme levels rise again.

The researchers believe that weight loss also speed up the recovery of serum insulin levels beneficial to increase the weight of the patients will not have this effect. This study shows that weight loss can be reduced to the risk of deterioration of liver disease, overweight patients with the treatment of patients with chronic liver disease should become an important part of treatment.

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