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Posted By Margaret Furtado, M.S., R.D. - Wed, Feb 25, 2009, 11:50 am PSTI received an email recently from a fellow dietitian with some thrilling news hot off the press. According to a just-published study about people trying to lose weight, those who consistently kept a food diary…Read More
Are Your Veggies Missing Nutrients?
Posted By Margaret Furtado, M.S., R.D. - Fri, Feb 20, 2009, 11:45 am PSTIn a recent scientific journal article, Donald R. Davis, a former researcher with the Biochemical Institute at the University of Texas, claims that today's vegetables in U.S. grocery stores contain 5 percent to…Read More
6 Tips to Outsmart Stress
Posted By Margaret Furtado, M.S., R.D. - Wed, Feb 18, 2009, 5:18 pm PSTIn a previous entry, I talked about how stress can actually encourage weight gain by triggering the release of cortisol, a powerful biochemical some have dubbed the "stress hormone."Cortisol and other chemicals…Read More
How Stress Can Make You Heavy
Posted By Margaret Furtado, M.S., R.D. - Sun, Feb 15, 2009, 6:12 pm PSTI see patients in my nutrition practice all the time who are stressed to the max, and yet I so often get funny looks when I ask them how they go about reducing that stress. Some of them say they walk or…Read More
Volumetrics Can Help You Lose Weight
Posted By Margaret Furtado, M.S., R.D. - Wed, Feb 11, 2009, 6:38 pm PSTAs a registered dietitian/nutritionist working in the field of weight loss through bariatric surgery (an operation designed to cause weight loss, often by reducing the size of the stomach), I often encourage my…Read More
Soy and Weight Loss: Hype or Hope?
Posted By Margaret Furtado, M.S., R.D. - Tue, Feb 10, 2009, 12:26 pm PSTSome dietitians I know were recently discussing several new books on the vegetarian lifestyle, and our discussion quickly turned to the role of soy and whether it could be the answer to lasting weight loss. Is…Read More
The Skinny on Fiber and Weight Loss
Posted By Margaret Furtado, M.S., R.D. - Wed, Oct 29, 2008, 4:58 pm PDTIn my work with weight-loss patients, I often tout the benefits of fiber, especially its ability to impart a feeling of fullness, which can aid in weight loss. But is fiber all it's cracked up to be?I first…Read More
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