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Virginia Bola's Articles in Diet & Nutrition

  • The French Fry: Weapon of Mass Destruction?
    The innocuous potato, relatively low in calories and packing its fair share of vitamins and minerals, has been transformed into a culinary weapon of mass destruction. Disfigured by saturated fat into a caloric and artery-hardening horror, the French fry may be the deadliest peril we face on a daily basis.
  • Food: The Proof Is In The Portion
    Where did we get the idea that bigger is better? Is it the national legacy of the depression when we swore we'd never "do without" again? Is it the speed and stress of our competitive lives that logically leads to our attacking our food with the same disregard for restraint we show in business?
  • Five Really Tough Dieting Tips
    If you are losing, trying to lose, or think you need to lose, weight, you are probably as sick as I am of those "easy" and "quick" diet tips that NEVER work!

    The following tips are neither quick nor easy. They are tough, uncomfortable, and demanding (but they work).
  • Life Is One Damn Diet After Another
    Allowing ourselves to think of a diet as a delineated, restricted period within our total life span is a sure avenue back to tent city (that refers to what we wear, not where we live). To have any hope of attaining permanent weight control, we must approach it as a lifelong effort, watching our intake day after day, week after week, year after year.
  • Diet: Changing Your Focus
    If we want to remove food from its central role in our lives, we have to stop thinking about it. Not an easy task but it can be done, even if painful. The real question is how can we do it.

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