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Why Eating Nuts Helps With Weight Loss
Poll: The Gorilla Diet Anyone?

Posted: 23 Feb 2011 05:03 AM PST

Poetry night hipsters, Law and Order detectives, reporters scrambling to meet deadline, and disgruntled cubicle workers, all have one thing in common, coffee.

Without the black stuff, today's rush-rush-rush workforce would never roll out of bed in the morning. According to E-Imports, a provider of business solutions for the coffee industry, 150 million Americans (50% of the population) drink some sort of coffee, such as espresso, cappuccino, latte, or iced coffee. Among coffee drinkers, the average consumption is 3.1 cups per day.

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Why Eating Nuts Helps With Weight Loss

Posted: 23 Feb 2011 02:08 AM PST

Many people leave nuts out of their eating plan when trying to lose weight, because they think they are too high in calories. However, this is a big mistake.

It's obvious nuts are high in calories, but studies show that those who eat nuts regularly tend to have a lower BMI in comparison to those who don't.

In a study published in the Journal of the American College of Nutrition, 81 healthy adults were told to supplement their diet with almonds every day (320 calories worth); no further instructions about food intake were given. After six months average body weight increased only 0.40 kg.

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Poll: The Gorilla Diet Anyone?

Posted: 22 Feb 2011 01:56 PM PST

We can learn a lot from our furry friends and perhaps they can teach us how to lose weight as well.

Two gorillas at the Cleveland Zoo just finished a year long diet that enabled them to lose 65 pounds each and they spent over half of their waking hours eating!

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