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A specific goal to eat a set number of daily servings of low-glycemic-index foods can improve dietary habits of people with type 2 diabetes, according to new research.

Study participants were given a goal to eat either six or eight daily servings of foods with a low glycemic index – carbohydrates that are digested slowly and are less likely to spike blood-sugar levels than would carbohydrates with a high glycemic index.

Overall, most participants reached the eight-serving goal, partly because researchers discovered that many people were already consuming about six servings of low-glycemic-index foods each day.

The participants also ate about 500 fewer daily calories and added vegetables, fruits and nuts and seeds to their diet – all foods that are on the low end of the glycemic index.

Participants’ confidence about being able to meet these dietary recommendations was key to their ability to reach the goal. Peopl

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Some dieters forget to count certain calories. – i_hate_u / Flickr Struggling to shed those extra pounds? The problem may lie in calories that aren’t getting counted.

Calorie counting has long been a successful tool in controlling ones weight. Most dieters know that to lose weight and keep it off, they should limit their calorie intake to 2,000 or less per day. For those that count calories but still struggle with weight gain, however, the problem could likely be that all of the calories consumed arent being counted.

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I figured it was just a matter of time before people started calling or writing to ask about the newest diet craze, and sure enough I didn’t have to wait that long.

The Dukan Diet has been generating more and more buzz, most probably because its been purported to be the plan followed by Kate Middleton’s sister, Pippa, in the months leading up to the Royal Wedding.

The diet, created by Dr. Pierre Dukan, claims it’s the “Real reason the French stay thin” (or so it says on the cover of the book) and has four phases: Attack, Cruise, Consolidation and Permanent Stabilization.

Lord knows I can’t dispense dieting advice. I have n

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For starters, it has no basis in science or reason. Learn how the fit-minded should eat instead.

By: Marie Spano

3 Reasons To Avoid The Blood-Type Diet

Eat Right For Your Blood Type, a book by Dr. Peter J. D’Adamo, isn’t a nutrition work for Twilight fans. The author’s concept, simply put, is that everyone can and should follow an optimal diet according to whether their blood type is A, B, AB, or O.

It all sounds very scientific, doesn’t it, in a nerd-glasses-and-lab-coat kind of way? You know there’s some 23-year-old actress out there waiting to offer a gushing endorsement of this diet as the cure for everything that ails everyone on Earth.

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Apr 11, 2011 Arthur Tiersky

I would gladly pay you Tuesday… –

So what is it that makes this diet so “likable”, you finally start to ask?

Its appeal to me, aside from the simplicity of its directives (“Stay under 1,200 calories per day. That’s really it. No, really.”) is that it doesn’t force you to flat-out eliminate anything from your normal diet.

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