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The Slim Habit
Jun 20, 20202 min read
If you have a weight problem, you don’t want to get the Coronavirus!
Covid-19 is a real and present danger to us all, and is likely to remain so for some considerable time. As the virus has spread so we...
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The Slim Habit
Mar 12, 20202 min read
A social problem with a social solution?
Governments and health care professionals across the world are becoming worried, very worried. Why? Because despite their best efforts to...
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The Slim Habit
Mar 2, 20202 min read
Weight loss and sleep. Does lack of sleep make you fat?
On average we are all getting two hours less sleep every night than we did 50 years ago. A lot has happened in 50 years. What has been...
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The Slim Habit
Feb 6, 20201 min read
Too difficult to say 'no'?
Eating too much? It’s easy to do. Little wonder people get disheartened by their lack of progress when they’re trying to lose weight....
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The Slim Habit
Oct 10, 20191 min read
Recommended Daily Allowances - the best guide
Very little is said about Recommended Daily Allowances (RDAs), which is a pity because they represent the maximum amount of key...
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The Slim Habit
Sep 4, 20192 min read
The Evil of HFCS - High Fructose Corn Syrup
High-Fructose Corn Syrup (HFCS) arrived on the scene in the 1970s. A significantly cheaper alternative to sugar, it was invented in...
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The Slim Habit
Aug 28, 20192 min read
How are your empathy skills? You may need them
Have you thought what it’s going to be like when you’ve been successful in achieving your weight loss goal? What are the reactions of...
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The Slim Habit
Aug 16, 20191 min read
Serial dieting is bad news
It’s a conundrum. You want to lose weight, but you don’t want to go on a diet. You’ve been on so many diets that you’ve become a member...
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The Slim Habit
Aug 15, 20192 min read
Diets make you fat!
The failure rate of most diets is astronomical yet more and more people turn to diets to try and provide a solution to their weight...
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The Slim Habit
Aug 12, 20192 min read
Fair to call BMI the 'baloney mass index'?
Is the Body Mass Index (BMI) a good indicator as to whether you have a healthy body weight or not? The short answer is ‘yes’. BMI...
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The Slim Habit
Aug 8, 20192 min read
Fat on the inside
There are some pretty scary statistics coming out about the dangers of being overweight or obese. What is alarming is how few people are...
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The Slim Habit
Jul 10, 20191 min read
It's a goal!
Goal setting is a very powerful process for focusing your attention on what you really want from life. Without goals, life can lack...
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The Slim Habit
Jun 5, 20193 min read
Time to exercise your options...
If you’re overweight, here are a few questions to ask yourself: Would you like to lose weight and feel better mentally and physically?...
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The Slim Habit
May 16, 20192 min read
Is that a snake oil salesman I see?
You can imagine the scene from an old black and white movie. It’s Main Street in some town in the mid-west. There’s a smartly dressed man...
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The Slim Habit
May 2, 20191 min read
Feel good about losing weight
The best definition of self-discipline is ‘positive action’ – something to feel good about”. If you’ve decided to lose weight then you...
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The Slim Habit
Feb 12, 20191 min read
You have a right to be slim and healthy
Obesity, being overweight is not a choice people make. Weight happens. It happens because our bodies can’t cope with the modern diet....
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The Slim Habit
Jan 30, 20192 min read
Don’t watch your weight, manage it!
When you’re trying to lose weight, jumping on the scales every morning can sometimes be a rewarding experience, a surprise even, but most...
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The Slim Habit
Jan 1, 20191 min read
Be Alert to Caffeine
Okay, ask any food manufacturer why they put caffeine in their drinks and what do you think the answer will be? With a completely...
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The Slim Habit
Dec 18, 20181 min read
Diets? Told you so!
New reports come out all the time, but one that has just been released from the Harvard School of Public Health, has shed new light on...
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The Slim Habit
Dec 14, 20181 min read
Tipple, tipple....topple!
We make choices based on our likes and dislikes. We choose to do something because we have facts that influence our decision, but we...
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