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Weight Management

You'll learn how losing weight will reduce your risk for disease, how increasing your activity can affect your weight loss efforts and about behaviors that lead to weight loss success.

There are tips for eating, shopping and increasing your activity level. If you want to select a weight loss program, lifeclinic gives you important consumer information to keep in mind before making a choice.

There are lots of ways to lose weight. But if you plan to lose more than 15 to 20 pounds, or if you take medication regularly, you should be evaluated by your doctor before beginning your plan.

Your doctor or registered dietitian can help you arrive at a sensible weight loss goal. You may not need to lose as much weight for your health as you think.

A Weight Loss Plan must include:

* Weight Loss Strategies
* Food Choices
* Exercise
* Weight Loss Programs

Causes of Aging How to combat Weight management
Organic food habits
Combined Therapy Works Best
A combined strategy of behavior therapy, more exercise and healthy eating geared to shaving extra calories away is actually the most successful therapy for weight loss and weight maintenance.
Rules of Thumb for Lowering Your Calorie Intake:

* Eat a variety of foods that are low in calories and high in nutrients.
* Eat less fat and fewer high-fat foods
* Eat smaller portions and limit second helpings of foods high in fat and calories
* Eat more vegetables and fruits without fats and sugars added in preparation or at the table
* Eat pasta, rice, breads and cereals without fats and sugars added in preparation or at the table
* Eat less sugar and fewer candies, cookies, cakes and soda
* Drink less or no alcohol

Regular exercise can

* lower your blood pressure
* help you to cut down or stop smoking
* prevent diabetes or decrease the need for diabetes medication
* help you lose weight or stay at a reasonable weight
* Eat pasta, rice, breads and cereals without fats and sugars added in preparation or at the table
* raise your HDL (good) cholesterol
* maintain bone health
* reduce feelings of depression and anxiety
* help you sleep better
* promote a feeling of well being
* reduce risk of some kinds of cancer

Weight loss program
The program should:

* provide behavior modification help (this means keeping food diaries or other strategies to help you change your habits)
* educate about healthy eating habits
* prevent diabetes or decrease the need for diabetes medication
* contain an exercise component personalized for you
* have long-term plans to deal with weight problems
* use a step-by-step approach

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Organic food habits
Organically grown food is your best way of reducing exposure to toxins used in conventional agricultural methods. These toxins include not only pesticides, many of which have been classified as potential cancer-causing agents. Minimizing exposure to these toxins is one of the major benefits to your health.