Look over your lifetime. Have you gone on fad diets? Have you tried to go that fast and easy way to lose weight? Only to find out it didn't work?

I feel most of us have at one time or another. I mean if there was some miracle way to get healthy and lose weight. If we find it do you know how happy we would be. Oh and how much legitimate money they would make?

There was a survey to see just how much money we waste on nutritional products and those fad diets that don't work. It seems we do waste a lot. In one year's time we waste $158 on stuff that doesn't work. You do the math. In a lifetime that can really add up. Wow. Boy does it add up to around $10,000.

If that seem ridiculous just think of the stuff we are suckered into buying in hopes that they actually work.

How many of us have tried those diet pills? They can work. I get that....it's just that when you stop taking them you end up gaining back what you lost and then some. Unless you plan on taking those pills for life it is not something that is realistic.

Same thing with those weight loss teas. They may help suppress your diet at first but again it is a quick fix. It is not a long term fix at all unless you change your lifestyle.

It really is easy to get suckered into the cabbage soup diet, the celery juice diet. I know a lot of people that swear by drinking apple cider vinegar for weight loss. Again a lot of these do work on a short time basis to help with weight loss. It's just not something that will work long term unless you plan on making more long tern changes.

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Although the term 'plant-based diet' has been on the rise for some time, that doesn't mean everyone knows exactly what it means.Often perceived as being part of veganism and frequently misunderstood, its entry into the wellness world's vernacular isn't exactly new, with many doctors and dietitians having long advocated for the style of eating.So, to better understand exactly what makes up a plant-based diet, we consulted Sydney-based accredited practising dietitian and nutritionist Marika Day, for all the ins-and-outs. Keep scrolling to learn more.Main image via @romeestrijdWhat Is A Plant-Based Diet?

"A plant-based diet is one that is made up predominantly of plants," Day told BAZAAR.

"Many people get it confused with a plant-only diet, which would be a vegan diet. A plant-based diet or a plant-centric diet is one that includes mostly plants but smaller amounts of animal products."

It's important to note that although some people incorrectly use the terms interchangeably, most consider veganism to be underpinned by the belief that animals should not harmed or exploited for human consumption, while plant-based eating isn't built upon an ideology.

According to a vast amount of research, plant-based diets offer a number of positive health outcomes.

"Plants have numerous health benefits, from antioxidants to dietary fibre and so much more, so a plant-based diet is great for us," Day explained.

"A plant-based diet is much more environmentally sustainable than a diet which contains large amounts of animal products," Day said.

"By having less meat or animal products, we are reducing our greenhouse gas emissions, and we can't have healthy humans if we don't have a healthy planet, too."

Although there are no concrete restrictions as to exactly how much animal-derived foods you can consume on a plant-based diet, the key is to remember that your overall diet should be comprised largely of plants.

"There is no firm definition of what a plant-based diet is with regards to how much animal product would push you 'over'," Day said.

"My suggestion is to look at what you eat in a day, or even just one meal. [Ask yourself] 'What proportion of that meal is from an animal vs. plants?', then work on improving that ratio to bump up the plant portion."

From an environmental perspective, even the smallest changes can make a difference, Day emphasised.

"A little bit goes a long way when it comes to our health and the environment. I think it is so important to remember we don't have to be perfect. Small swaps or small reductions in animal products on a global scale make a big difference," she said.

"Our best dietary sources of plant protein can be found in foods like tofu, tempeh, lentils, beans, chickpeas, quinoa, and in smaller amounts in other grains, nuts and seeds," said Day.

If you're interested in moving towards a plant-based diet, it's a good idea to assess how much animal-based product you are consuming before making any changes, Day expressed.

"My suggestion would be to think about how much animal product you are having at the moment, then come up with one to two simple things you could do to increase your plant intake and reduce animal-based products.

"For example, it might be as simple as having one meat-free meal a week, or swapping out half the mince in a dish for lentils, or having a smaller serving of meat with your veggies. Don't over-complicate it, start where you are and make small but meaningful changes."

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Jennifer Lopez is mostly known as an actress, dancer, and singer. But if youve followed her closely throughout her decades-long career, you know that shes a bit of a foodie, too.

Though she tends to follow a strict diet, the Goin In singer will occasionally pig out on a variety of foods. She eats everything from pizza and steak to octopus and less popular fruits. But, like everyone, J. Lo has her limits.

Heres the one food youll never catch Lopez eating.

In a 2013 interview with CBS News, the Get Right singer told host Gayle King that she cant stand exotic foods. These are usually unusual or taboo meats, vegetables, fruits, or spices.

I dont like the exotic kinds of food like snake like venison and things like that, Lopez said. It gets too weird.

But Lopez reportedly has some weird food habits herself. According to multiple reports, she has to have her coffee stirred counterclockwise. Its unclear why she allegedly has to have it this way, but if its not, she reportedly wont drink it.

Lopez follows a clean diet complete with plenty of protein, fruits, and vegetables. She tends to eat chicken, fish, smoothies, oatmeal, salads, and eggs.

I have her eating very clean because she needs really good fuel for all the things that shes doing, her trainer, Tracy Anderson, previously toldPeople. Its all organic and its all very well thought out, with the balance of very high quality proteins and a lot of nutrient-dense food everything is fresh.

Lopez steers clear of alcohol and caffeine. But on the rare occasion that she does want coffee, she always reaches for decaf (before stirring it counterclockwise).

Though she generally follows a strict food regimen, the Im Real singer doesnt totally deprive herself of her favorite foods.

Throughout the years Ive learned the importance of maintaining a healthier [] diet, shepreviously told People. I still eat some of the foods I love, but in moderation. I dont deprive myself.

When shes ready to pig out, Lopez loves Puerto Rican food and chocolate chip cookies.

I happen to know a woman that loves cookies and I meanloves,her fianc, Alex A-Rod Rodriguez, revealed in a November 2018 episode of Shark Tank. Jennifer eats a cookie every night before she goes to bed.

Rodriguez also said during a 2017 appearance on The View that Lopezs other guilty pleasure is chocolate chip ice cream.

Speaking of Rodriguez, he and Lopez often do diets and cleanses together. In February of 2019, the couple went on a 10-day, no-sugar, no-carb detox. After completing the challenge, they celebrated by having a feast.

According to People, they chowed down on fried and sweet plantains, pizza, fries, veggies, and more.

But they didnt waste any time getting back in the gym to work it off. Learn more about Lopezs workout routine here.

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Tara Lennon/THEREVIEW On top all the numbers they have to keep track of in their head, the students in personal health management classes have to count another aspect of their lives for a week: the amount of calories they eat.

BY TARA LENNONSenior Reporter

Students simultaneously keep track of various numbers in their heads: the number of assignments they have due in the upcoming week, the number of spare hours they have to watch television, the number of friends they have on Facebook.

On top of all that, the students in personal health management classes have to count another aspect of their lives for a week: the amount of calories they eat.

As an assignment, they keep records of this for a week during their nutrition unit. Every person, according to Laura Gimbutas, an adjunct professor of behavioral health and nutrition, requires a specific amount of calories to maintain a healthy weight. The amount in question depends on a variety of factors, including muscle mass, activity level, height, basal metabolic rate and other genetic variables.

For this assignment, students first take a quiz on myplate.gov to determine how many calories they need each day. The quiz takes a few of these factors into account, but it cannot predict a specific persons basal metabolic rate. Therefore, it only provides an estimation for daily caloric intake.

Despite the potential inaccuracy of this estimate, students in this class compare their caloric intakes and the amounts of nutrients they received to the recommendations provided to them.

Gimbutas said that the goal of this assignment is to provide students with awareness of how calories work, the role they play in maintaining a healthy weight, how many calories are in certain foods and what other nutrients are in the foods they eat.

However, such an assignment may have unintended, harmful effects on some students.

Anything health-related runs the risk of becoming unhealthy, Gimbutas said.

According to Gimbutas, the practice of counting calories can lead to unhealthy, restrictive behavior. She said the assignment is short-term because counting calories for a long-term period is not necessary and if a person is eating balanced meals, they will naturally maintain a healthy weight.

Counting calories as a short-term assignment, however, can potentially trigger longer term disordered eating patterns.

Sharon Collison, a registered dietician and instructor in clinical nutrition at the university, said that counting calories is a harmful practice for those who have an eating disorder, a family history of eating disorders or addiction or are at high risk of an eating disorder. Such an assignment, she said, will not cause an eating disorder, but could trigger or start one sooner than it would otherwise happen.

Ive seen people with eating disorders in my treatment who have told me that they remember it started when they did an assignment that looked closely at food intake, Collison said.

Alexandra Juliano, president of the universitys chapter of Project Heal, an organization with the stated purpose of raising money and awareness for eating disorders, said that recent research also shows that counting calories instills a diet mentality within people and could potentially cause disordered eating patterns.

Gimbutas said that the majority of students do not run this risk. However, she does communicate to her students that she would tweak the assignment to suit their individual needs.

Collison said that a better alternative to this assignment would be to track the calories of someone else, as some college students may find calorie counting a triggering practice.

According to the National Eating Disorder Association (NEDA), men and women are particularly vulnerable to disordered eating in college. Full-blown eating disorders begin typically between the ages of 18 and 21, and potentially, 4.4 to 5.9% of teenagers enter college with an untreated eating disorder. Experimentation with dieting can progress into pathological dieting and even further into a partial or full-syndrome eating disorder.

I think a lot of people probably have disordered eating or a poor relationship with food, Collison said. They dont trust their choices, they tend to have some black and white thinking, and they have guilt for eating foods they shouldnt be eating.

Juliano echoed the prevalence of disordered eating on college campuses.

Everywhere you go, theres someone to compare yourself to, whether its in class, in a student center studying, partying, the bars, Juliano said. I think a lot of college women have disordered eating behaviors and dont even know it because [their behaviors are] not necessarily diagnostic of a specific eating disorder.

She said that society has normalized unhealthy behaviors, therefore, students do not question their relationships with food.

Its almost a norm to skip dinner so that you can drink less and get more drunk, or skip dinner because formals coming up and you want to look good, Juliano said.

Although disordered eating may pose a threat to college students, many students use the phrase, The Freshman 15 to emphasize the threat of weight gain on college freshmen.

For kids that grew up in homes where they were overly healthy, they didnt have access to french fries and ice cream and now in college they have unlimited access to french fries and ice cream, Collison said. A lot of freshmen will overeat these foods because theyre not accustomed to having them often.

According to NEDA, freshmen gain between 2.5 to 3.5 pounds on average, far from the alleged fifteen pounds and only a half-pound more than the average of their peers who did not attend college.

Additionally, Juliano said that women naturally gain weight each year and, therefore, it biologically makes sense that students would gain weight. However, she said that students blame weight gain on their diet and cut their intake.

Students, according to Collison, rather than resorting to dieting, should trust their natural hunger cues and try to eat balanced meals along with their favorite foods to avoid restrictive eating patterns.

Juliano, personally affected by an eating disorder, now relies on intuition to guide her eating.

If I want a slice of cake, Ill eat a slice of cake and if I want a bag of chips, Ill eat a bag of chips, Juliano said. Thats a positive way to live, as long as youre keeping a balance.

Collison said that students should utilize online assessments if they feel they might have a disordered relationship with food. After they find out their risk of an eating disorder, they should seek the help of a professional, like the dieticians available at the student health center.

Juliano said that the university could improve the resources and education they provide regarding eating disorders.

In her experience, many students lack an understanding of what different eating disorders actually are, and the university could remedy this with expanded dietetics electives, an online course educating incoming freshmen like AlcoholEdu and information sessions during freshman seminar classes.

I think that the school could do better, Juliano said. Eating disorders deserve equal attention to other mental illnesses.

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As the university observers Veterans Day, we recognize the more than 1,000 military affiliated students, faculty and staff on our campus.

Duke has maintained supportive ties with the US military since its founding nearly a century ago. Today that support takes many forms, including classroom learning, research and partnerships with the military and allies, and building a community of veterans and military affiliates on campus.

Below are several ways that Duke works with military veterans both on campus and in the community at large.

Hundreds of members of the Duke community will gather at Duke Chapel to honor veterans and their service at 11 a.m. Monday, in Duke Chapel.

This years ceremony is that it will be the first organized by the Duke Military Alliance, a newly formed affinity group for military veterans working at Duke. Dean Taylor, sports medicine orthopedic surgeon and colonel, US Army (retired), will deliver remarks.

There are also permanent monuments to veterans and their service on campus. The Memorial Wall between Duke Chapel and the Divinity School lists the more than 50 Duke community members who died in service during wars after World War II. Across campus, in the Brodie Gym which once was named Memorial Gym a large plaque recognizes those who died during World Wars I and II.

DID YOU KNOW? On the hospital side, the 65th General Hospital Memorial statue features four life-size figures -- an injured soldier, a physician, a nurse and a corpsman, commemorating the Duke doctors and nurses who served in a highly decorated medical unit during World War II.

From Dukes close relationship with the Durham Veterans Affairs Hospital to Duke research on drones and port security, academic scholarship is being translated into stronger national security and improved care for veterans.

Typical of that work is an ongoing project by Professor Katherine Hall, who works with older, Vietnam War veterans who continue to experience PTSD. Its a population that is rarely served by many existing PTSD treatment programs, which usually focus on younger veterans. Hall believes their trauma symptoms can be reduced through a formal exercise regimen. Initial results are strongly positive.

Duke research is helping veterans in other ways as well. The Department of Veterans Affairs sponsors a study at the Diet and Fitness Center, which indicates that adding weight loss counseling to a treatment program can help people better control diabetes symptoms. In another project, Duke researchers are studying mesothelioma in military service members.

DID YOU KNOW? Congressional staff interested in military issues recently visited Duke to hear from a variety of researchers from both the campus and medical sides.

Earlier this year, a group of Duke faculty and students visited Fort Bragg for an unusual classroom exercise. Their mission: To simulate how US Special Forces can best get medical care to units in a middle of a fight.

The exercise was part of The Hacking for Defense program where the Department of Defense works with universities to create partnering an interdisciplinary group of students with military officers. The goal is to have smart thinkers from outside the military looking at challenging problems and coming up with creative solutions.

The academic mission goes in the other direction as well. Military officers come to Duke for classroom learning. The most notable is the Sanford Schools Counterterrorism and Public Policy program, which brings in four to six officers a year to regularly meet with senior military and government leaders in small group sessions as well as receive instruction in courses of their choosing.

DID YOU KNOW? Recent speakers at Duke have included the Retired U.S. Army Gen. Stanley McChrystal, who commanded U.S. and International Security Assistance Forces in Afghanistan, and Gen. Lori Robinson, the first ever female combatant commander in the US Army. Read about the speakers here.

As veterans became one of the fastest growing populations in Dukes student body, and the numbers of veteran employees also grew, Duke officials developed programs to support them in their transition to the civilian population.

The Duke Military Association is the most recent addition to this effort. Open to all Duke employees whether they are veterans or allied civilians, the association looks to raise the profile of veterans on campus and find opportunities to serve the wider community.

There can be special challenges for student veterans. Some in professional schools are still active duty and are trying to accelerate their degree while raising families. To help them, Duke Student Affairs has developed several initiatives, amplified by additional programs in several of the professional schools.

The result is a range of activities including a 5K fundraising fund for a local charity; football tailgate gatherings; workshops with local employers concerning job opportunities for veterans; and the annual Valor games, in which wounded veterans compete in archery, wheelchair basketball, powerlifting and other events.

DID YOU KNOW? Former Chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. (Ret.) Martin Dempsey holds a masters degree in English from Trinity College, as does Gen. (Ret.) Eric Shinseki, the former secretary of veterans affairs.

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Winter diet tips to stay warm

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During winters, it is not just about how well you cover yourself with layers of woollen clothes, but also what you consume that can help you stay warm. There are certain foods that you can include in your diet, which can generate heat in the body naturally. Moreover, we need more nutrients in our meals so that we can fuel our system. So start out by changing the ingredients in your pantry and fridge. Winter means the body needs more energy to keep warm; and interestingly, the efficiency of our digestive processes also increases to help us utilise nutrients better. We need more nutrients in our meals so that we can fuel our system.

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Make sure you eat healthy and nutritious this winter season. Stay healthy and warm. Happy winters!

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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Pigs might not fly, but LiLou the therapy pig wants to make air travel less stressful.

LiLou the therapy pig stands in the departure area at San Francisco International Airport in San Francisco, California, U.S., October 4, 2019. REUTERS/Jane Ross

The five-year-old Juliana pig and her owner, Tatyana Danilova, are part of San Francisco International Airports Wag Brigade - a program that brings therapy animals to the airport to cheer passengers up and help ease travel anxieties.

Dressed in a pilots cap and with toenails painted bright red, LiLou breezes through the metal detector at airport security and trots to the departure gates. She raises a hoof in greeting, poses for selfies and entertains departing passengers with a tune on her toy piano.

People are very happy to get distracted from the travel, from their routines, whether theyre flying on their journey for vacation or work, said Danilova. Everybody is usually very happy and it makes them pause for a second and smile and be like, oh, its great.

When shes not delighting passengers at the airport, LiLou lives with Danilova in her downtown San Francisco apartment, where she enjoys a diet of organic vegetables and protein pellets, sleeps in her own bed and goes for daily walks around the neighborhood.

Danilova says LiLou loves interacting with people, but, as a prey animal, doesnt like having anyone approach her from behind.

At the airport, eight-year-old Katie Schroeder, from San Ramon, California, squealed in delight as LiLou bashed out a tune on her piano, using her hooves and snout.

Ive never seen a pig in the airport. She can do tricks like a dog, she said.

Guest services manager Jennifer Kazarian says LiLou is the worlds first airport therapy pig in a Wag Brigade program, which includes dogs of all breeds and sizes, that she has built a sense of community in the airport.

When we first launched the program, our main goal was to relieve stress for our passengers. However, what we have found is we have formed a connection with our passengers and its been totally amazing, Kazarian said.

All the therapy animals take part in a training program with the San Francisco SPCA and must have a stable temperament, good manners and a friendly personality, she said.

As for little accidents, Kazarian said there have not been any issues. All the animals, including LiLou, are house-trained.

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Do you subscribe to the belief that verbally beating yourself up whether in your head or in front of others is the key to eating better, exercising more, losing weight and otherwise becoming a more worthy human? In our diet-obsessed culture, theres a pervasive idea that shaming ourselves about our perceived food failings and body inadequacies is motivating.

Well, its not.

Several of my clients, once theyve shed the mantle of diet culture and traded self-criticism for self-care, have been shocked by their findings. Book clubs, wedding receptions, group vacations, yoga retreats, restaurants, office break rooms and holiday gatherings will never be the same to them because the diet talk and body shaming is suddenly plain as day. Food, whether eaten or avoided, is picked apart, and bodies figuratively dissected. I didnt earn this dessert. I shouldnt be eating this. I was so bad yesterday I can only have a salad for lunch today. How many calories/carbs/fat do you think is in this? I better go to the gym to burn this off. Im not eating any more X until I lose X pounds.

I had no idea how awful it is, my clients say. I cant believe I used to talk like this, too.

I nod. Once you finally see diet culture for what it is, its impossible to un-see it.

This kind of talk is toxic, whether its a loop playing inside your head or a means of bonding with other women over dinner sadly, this does seem to be the domain of women. It makes people who treat themselves with kindness not want to eat with you, and worse, it harms your mental and physical health negative body and food talk is associated with stress, depression and anxiety, as well as unhealthy eating behaviors, like highly restrictive diets.

According to research, women who prioritize appearance are most likely to engage in negative talk about their bodies, along with unhealthy eating behaviors. Women who care more about health than appearance, on the other hand, are more likely to show themselves self-compassion. Self-compassion helps us build and maintain habits that help us feel well and be well, such as getting enough sleep, eating balanced meals and making time for physical activity, because compassion soothes negative emotions that may emerge if our habits falter say, we have a day without vegetables, eat to the point of over-fullness at a meal or dont make it to the gym making it easier to resume those habits instead of falling into a funk.

People with high self-compassion are more likely to practice behaviors that support health for internal reasons, with self-care as their motivator. Think about it for a minute: If you are constantly critical of yourself, you might not like yourself very much, so why would you take care of yourself?

If you suspect your internal voice is far from kind, what can you do?

First, listen. To quiet that critical voice, you need to be fully aware of what its saying, and when and how often its saying it. This can feel icky, and its easy to become self-critical about just how self-critical we are, so try to stay judgment-free youre gathering important information about yourself.

Then, when you notice that voice popping up, gently shift to a more compassionate voice, like one you would use with a dear friend, or a family member whos struggling.

Finally, be patient this change may take time, but its worth it.

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A heart attack is a serious medical emergency in which the supply of blood to the heart is suddenly blocked, usually by a blood clot.

A lack of blood to the heart may seriously damage the heart muscle and can be life threatening.

Coronary heart disease (CHD) is the leading cause of heart attacks, and certain foods have been shown to reduce a persons risk of developing the deadly complication.

According to a study published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, people who regularly eat a variety of nuts, including peanuts, walnuts and tree nuts, have a lower risk of developing cardiovascular disease or coronary heart disease compared to people who never or almost never eat nuts.

While many past studies focused on nut consumption as a whole, researchers in this study also investigated the association between specific types of nuts - peanut butter, peanuts, walnuts and tree nuts - with major cardiovascular events.

Peanuts were included even though they are actually a legume because they have a similar fatty acid and nutrient profile as other nuts.

To gather the findings, the research analysed data from over 210,000 people, including women from the Nurses' Health Study and Nurses' Health Study II and men from the Health Professionals Follow-up Study, with up to 32 years of follow up.

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Participants who ate peanuts or tree nuts two or more times per week had a 13 percent and 15 percent lower risk of cardiovascular disease, respectively, and a 15 percent and 23 percent, lower risk of coronary heart disease, respectively, compared to those who never consumed nuts.

Participants who consumed five or more servings of nuts a week had a 14 percent lower risk of cardiovascular disease and a 20 percent lower risk of coronary heart disease than participants who never or almost never consumed nuts.

"Our findings support recommendations of increasing the intake of a variety of nuts, as part of healthy dietary patterns, to reduce the risk of chronic disease in the general populations," said Marta Guasch-Ferre, PhD, lead author of the study and research fellow at the department of nutrition at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

According to Mayo Clinic, one way nuts may help your heart health is by lowering the low-density lipoprotein (LDL, or "bad") cholesterol levels.

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Pretty much all of us have made an effort to lose weight or eat healthier at some point or another, but it very rarely lasts as long as we would have liked.

Those delicious treats or easy takeaways always seem to win, defeating out battle against the cravings and ruining our diet completely.

But according to neuroscientist Susan Peirce Thompson the reason you edge back towards your old favourites isn't really your fault, and it's actually all to do with our brains.

Writing for the Mail , she explains that our brains haven't caught up enough to help us process modern food that is filled with sugar and flour.

When we have too much of these things insulin in our bodies rises, blocking leptin - a hormone that tells our brain we've had enough to eat. This means we will keep eating and eating, which isn't good news for the diet.

She claims that the sugary foods also flood our brains with dopamine, and trying to reduce it makes us crave more of it to get that same 'hit'.

Susan believes the key to overcoming this is to get rid of the foods that 'handicap' our brains by following four rules which she calls Bright Lines.

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Susan considers this the most important of her four rules, writing: "Only by taking sugar our of the equation can the brain and body heal".

This means all sugar, including honey and sweeteners.

The same as sugar, Susan describes flour as a "sneaky seductress".

When you have a routine when it comes to eating, it takes the burden off your willpower as you know when the next meal is coming.

She recommends weighing all your food before you eat it so you know exactly what you're putting into your body.

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