How cooking sites can help you loose weight (02/24/2010)
... Just visit one of the many sites mentioned in this article and pick healthy alternatives to traditional dishes. Many sites include low-calorie versions of classic favorites. It’s okay to have pasta with Alfredo sauce, for example, as long as the pasta is whole wheat, the Alfredo sauce is low-fat, and the portions are pre-measured. Of course, having a large recipe database is essential. Many sites have thousands of recipes and reviews of those recipes....

Allrecipes bills itself as the worldwide community cookbook (02/24/2010)
...com is actually a compilation of sites. It began as cookierecipe.com in 1997, added appetizers, vegetarian recipes, and a store, and eventually merged into one site with 37 categories of recipes, including recipes for people on special diets. The site claims more than two million visitors per month and more than 45 million page views per month. Recipes come from end users, corporate partners, and nutrition experts....

Cookinglight an active weight loss community and magazine content (02/24/2010)
... The site provides more than 50 recipes for chocolate desserts using less sugar, fat, and simple carbs than traditional versions of the same desserts. Nutrition information, including Weight Watchers POINTS, is provided. You can even send someone a chocolate-themed e-card for free. There’s an article on the site about the healthy benefits of chocolate (flavonoids are powerful antioxidants contained most heavily in dark chocolate) and they almost, but not quite, stretch the point of how healthy chocolate is. (It’s not, but in moderation it’s fine....

Cooks contain a lot of information about healthy living (02/24/2010)
...com is a great site loaded with content. As a result, it consistently ranks as one of the most popular online cooking sites. The home page features popular articles that provide lots of basic information at a glance; links to 23 categories of recipes; featured recipes, which are tested and approved by Cooks.com; recent searches by other visitors (updated every few minutes); and links to a variety of calculators, cooking magazines, and specialty recipes. There’s also a community area where users can discuss recipes and cooking techniques....

How to keep yourself healthy with a diet (02/24/2010)
... There are many comprehensive health and wellness sites on the Internet. In general, those sites provide the following: Age-, gender-, and topic-specific support groups and information centers. Most sites have information centers, complete with articles, message boards, and other information for age-, gender-, and disease-specific categories. In general, this includes separate areas for men’s issues, women’s issues, seniors, babies, and children, as well as topics for AIDS, cancer, diabetes, fitness, food, nutrition, and weight loss, among others. Some sites have hundreds of categories such as these....

Mayoclinic comes with a wealth of health related information (02/24/2010)
... The site is filled with tips, quizzes, articles, recipes, and expert advice. There are 26 health centers and four main categories on the site, including Diseases & Conditions, Healthy Living, Drugs & Supplements, and Health Tools. There’s also a store where you can buy books and subscribe to newsletters, and an area that includes only the subjects you’re interested in, called My Health Interests. The Diseases & Conditions category provides literally an A to Z guide to what ails you. Click on a topic, and you will get much more than a typical definition....

US Government Health and Human Services sites (02/24/2010)
...gov Summary: Your tax dollars are at work in a great way via these sites, which provide a wealth of information about nutrition, health, and fitness. The U.S. government is hard at work helping us get healthier. They have a variety of fine sites aimed at helping Americans lose weight, eat well, and live a healthier lifestyle....

WebMD Health is a vast site covering nearly anything related to health (02/24/2010)
... Diseases & Conditions is one of the most used areas on WebMD. It includes an exhaustive directory of diseases and conditions, including several links that are sponsored by advertisers. Clicking on a particular condition brings up an article about it, tips on how to deal with it, medical data from the Cleveland Clinic, a directory of clinical trials about your condition, quizzes and tools, and a section called We Knew You’d Want to Know, which covers tips and techniques for dealing with the condition. Since being overweight is a condition,WebMD includes an excellent Weight Control Health Center. There are articles, quizzes, tools, tips, facts from the Cleveland Clinic, and lots of data about a variety of obesity-related subjects....

iVillage is about fitness weight loss and health (02/24/2010)
... Although the articles are slanted toward women, iVillage strikes me somewhat like that old campaign for Secret deodorant, which was “strong enough for a man, but made for a woman.” iVillage content is useful enough for everyone, but made for women. All areas of iVillage are organized in a similar fashion, with news, articles, videos, quizzes, tips, issues particularly suited to women, and a Best of iVillage section that features the most popular articles. There’s an A–Z health dictionary, message boards on many subjects, chats, expert advice, and more. All topics are written for women....

A pedometer can help you lose more weight than the foods (02/24/2010)
... For calories burned, the pedometer needs to know your gender, age, and weight. Like a food diary keeps track of what you eat, pedometers keep track of the amount of activity in which you engage. After getting a pedometer, I parked my car farther from the office each day, walked a little more each evening, exercised more, and tried to take as many steps as possible each day. As a result, I lost weight without even trying. Experts say that you should aim for at least 10,000 steps per day for optimal fitness (the average American averages approximately 6,000 steps per day)....

Mens Healths Fitness section includes videos to help you do exercises right (02/24/2010)
... The Health center includes a great Conditions center that provides at-a-glance information about a condition (called a “Crash Course”), and then follows that up with tools, articles, and information that help men “Fight Back” against the condition. For example, the section on cholesterol includes a quick guide to the statin drugs that help lower cholesterol, plus weight control, diet, and exercise tips and a guide to good and bad fats and the foods that they are in. (In short, eat more salmon, nuts, olive oil, and avocados; eat fewer processed snack foods, fried foods, and whole milk.) HEALTH AND FITNESS FOR KIDS Men, women, and seniors have an abundance of sites devoted to their health, but kids aren’t left out in the cold. Kidsnutrition....

So why are Americans getting heavier (01/26/2010)
... What we don’t realize is that in many of these products, sugar is being substituted for the fat with the calories staying pretty much the same. So we have really been trading fat for sugar. If we are of the mindset that we can eat more because it’s fat-free, then we are actually eating more (and getting more calories) with some of the products. Surveys have shown that we are getting a smaller percentage of our calories from fat than we were 15 to 20 years ago, but that we are eating more calories and more added sugars. We are actually eating 300 more calories a day when you compare data between 1975 and 1995....

Fat free but full of calories products at the supermarket (01/26/2010)
... Some breads list one slice as a serving. Others use two slices. In the cereal aisle you’ll find everything from half a cup to one and a half cups as a serving. Once you’ve made it past the portion size, you can follow the label down to find calories, fat grams, saturated fat grams, fiber grams, and sugar grams. Fat-free but full of calories Just because a product is fat-free doesn’t mean it is caloriefree or that you can eat the whole box in one sitting....

Whole grain products youll want to know about (01/26/2010)
... Oats are one of the highest protein grains and one of the highest in soluble fiber too. Rye is a whole grain prized by German, Russian, and Scandinavian bread makers. Here we have two types of rye bread to choose from in our supermarkets and bakeries (dark and golden). Germany has more than one hundred different types of rye bread. Whole grain breads and bagels Buyer beware....

Shopping for less fatty food when we go to supermarkets (01/26/2010)
... 5. Choose salad dressings that are not too high in fat and use canola oil or olive oil (see list below). You can also make a tasty mayonnaise blend by mixing 1/3 real mayonnaise and 2/3 cup fat-free or “light” sour cream. Some canola oil mayonnaise brands are also available. 6....