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Weight Loss Made Easy – Listen to the interview

ns — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 17:42:02 +0000

Nancy Deville with Stacey Powells on KMMT Radio
Exhausted Parent
January 26, 2012
Weight Loss Made Easy

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Fourteen Weight Loss Do’s

ns — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 01:23:23 +0000

Rather than try and fail at another diet this new year, why not take a more strategic approach by making your goal optimal health? I believe that the human body desires to be well — and that includes being at a healthy weight. Let’s consider fourteen do’s to pave the way for you to be successful in your quest to burn that fat. READ MORE

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Celebrate a Little Victory Every Day

ns — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 16:02:22 +0000

We all have slumps, which can actually be a good thing if we take advantage of our down time. My recent slump started when I injured my back doing yoga — which turned into five weeks of back spasms. During that time, I got two colds in a row. It was six weeks of a pared-down social life and way too much alone time, sniffling with a heating pad. I recovered and got back on my bike and into yoga class. But while I was slowed down I had had a lot of time to think. READ MORE

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Questioning The Calorie In/Calorie Out Theory of Weight Loss!

ns — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 21:43:04 +0000

The basic premise of the New York Times magazine New Year’s cover story “Fat Trap” by Tara Parker-Pope is, “once we become fat, most of us, despite our best efforts, will probably stay fat.”

Tara Parker-Pope came to this conclusion after exploring numerous clinical findings that dieting causes metabolic and hormonal changes, and that genetic variants tend to run in fat families. (She admits that these genetic predispositions are not always found in overweight people.) READ MORE

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Do Women Need Girlfriends?

ns — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 19:43:25 +0000

There’s nothing that makes you feel more warm and fuzzy than a girlfriend who will do anything for you. Girlfriends offer consolation and advice on subjects ranging from straightening frizzy hair to dealing with family, falling in love to finding a career, managing weight to boosting self-esteem and so on ad infinitum. Inside jokes, secret languages, romantic comedies, fashion, home decorating, makeup, stain removal, relationship recovery — it’s all more fun with girlfriends. READ MORE

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Thoughts on Life Planning For The New Year

ns — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 17:27:22 +0000

It’s been five months since my vacation on Martha’s Vineyard where I wrote my life plan in my “Lil Fat Notebook” on the beach and posted the article “Dreams do Come True (If you Make Them).” READ MORE

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Nancy Deville interviewed by Stephanie Stephens: Mind Your Body

ns — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 15:44:55 +0000

Shopping for Real Food on a Budget

ns — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 21:41:29 +0000

My last blog “How to Grocery Shop Like a Hunter-Gatherer,” generated a lot of discussion. One complaint was that eating real food is too expensive for many Americans. I present ideals when I write about food. If only everyone could eat real, whole, living food our health care problems would decline. Unfortunately tax dollars do not go to subsidizing small farmers and ranchers, but to corporations that grow the soy, corn and wheat that go into making the factory food products that are ruining our health. Although I could go on a major rant about that, it’s more productive to think of ways to help financially challenged Americans find ways to improve their nutrition. READ MORE

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‘Tis The Season Of Sugar

ns — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 15:05:45 +0000

Of the 156 pounds of sugar Americans each consume every year, it’s likely that 20 pounds of that is consumed during the holidays. But before we laser focus on holiday bingeing, let’s clarify carbs. Because it’s really important to understand that it’s not just 156 pounds of sugar/high fructose corn syrup that deliver glucose into our bloodstreams. We also eat hundreds of pounds of other carbohydrates, like cereal, toaster pastries, potato chips, French fries, candy, cookies, pancakes, waffles, corn chips, pretzels, cake, pie, pastry, donuts, bread, pizza, pasta, muffins, granola, dried fruit, and cornbread. READ MORE

How to Shop Like a Hunter-Gatherer

ns — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 17:04:08 +0000

Nancy Deville in the Huffington Post
How to Shop Like a Hunter-Gatherer

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Just because we don’t have to actually pick, gather, milk, hunt or fish for our food doesn’t mean that we can walk into a market in a daze and load up the cart without thinking. We have to be as vigilant as if we’re out on the savanna scouting for the next meal. We need to be modern hunter-gatherers. READ MORE