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Is it Better to Count Calories or Carbs?
While counting calories is a time-tested method to losing weight, some people find it tiresome. Low-carb diets allow dieters to eat as much as they want of certain foods, so long as they limit the number of carbohydrates they eat. Both diets work in the short term, but it’s important to choose a diet that will work for you long term.
Make Healthier Fast Food Choices
All of a sudden corporate giants are jumping on the health food bandwagon – touting new products as the newest discovery since sliced bread. Check out Mickey D’s new major campaign for their Real Fruit Smoothie. It’s great that you can drive-in and buy yourself a $2.29 smoothie, but buyer beware. Do you realize how many grams of sugar are in that 12 oz. drink? 42!!! That’s about 85% of your sugar intake for the day – based on daily intake of 2,000 calories. The good news is – it’s better than a soda with high fructose corn syrup, which of course, we all know should be outlawed. Don’t even get me started on “energy” bars. Here’s some helpful tips on eating fast food – because as Mickey D says “You deserve a break today”.
Parent’s Choice vs. Good Start Infant Formula
In the United States, baby formula is highly regulated. Strict standards must be upheld by formula manufacturers that touches on everything from where the formula is made to what it contains. That means that Gerber Good Start and Wal-Mart’s Parent’s Choice baby formulas are both measured by the same yard stick. The big difference is in price–Parent’s Choice runs about $10 less per can than Good Start. Both brands have a multitude of formulations.
Low-Carb Fast Food Ideas
Low-carb diets may help you lose weight by by limiting the number of carbohydrates that you eat, according to the Mayo Clinic. While that means quick weight loss for many, it is difficult to eat low-carb foods if you are eating traditional fast food meals. If possible, avoid fast food restaurants during the initial phase of a low-carb diet, when you must severely limit the amount of carbs that you eat. After that, it gets much easier to find a meal at a fast food restaurant.
Low-Carb Low-Fat Diet Foods
If both low-carb and low-fat diets can be a successful way to lose weight, it would seem that combining the two–by eating only foods that are both low fat and low carb–would mean even faster weight loss. You can lose weight quickly on this kind of diet, but your food choices are quite limited., according to the Mayo Clinic. You should also take care to count the number of calories you are eating, as eating only low-carb, low-fat foods may actually leave you eating so few calories that your body goes into starvation mode, halting your weight loss.