What does following a gluten-free diet mean? That you're embarking on an easy diet with a wide range of health-promoting effects. Instead of dwelling on what you’re giving up, consider that you’re going to enjoy a whole new world of delicious food options to meet your special dietary needs. You’ll be eating seasonally, choosing more fresh fruits and vegetables, focusing on meats, seafood, poultry, legumes, lentils, corn, and rice, and discovering fascinating ancient grains such as quinoa, amaranth, and millet. You’ll be able to eat potatoes, eggs, most cheeses, even chocolate (!)—and enjoy them without guilt because you’ll be taking good care of your body. In fact, you’ll probably end up eating—and feeling—better than ever!
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Nobody would argue that losing weight and keeping it off are easy, and as we age, the battle of the bulge can feel downright discouraging at times. Fortunately, even for baby boomers—those of us born between 1946 and 1964—some practical and unique tips can put us on the path to successful weight management and our personal best health.
Yogurt, a food loaded with probiotics, was a super star at preventing weight gain
One study of more than 120,000 men and women who were followed for 20 years found strong links between certain foods and tendency to gain or maintain weight over the years. The results might surprise you:
Pick probiotics. Yogurt, a food loaded with probiotics—the healthy bacteria found in the digestive tract—was a super star at preventing weight gain. Each extra daily serving of yogurt prevented nearly a pound of weight gain every four years. Think of yogurt as your go-to, get slim snack.
Pass up the potato chips. Of the hundreds of foods studied, potato chips were most strongly tied with weight gain. Compared with no chips, each additional potato chip serving eaten per day was linked with nearly two pounds of weight gain every four years, regardless of anything else a person ate.
Choose fresh. Other top offenders for putting people on the weight gain train include sugar-sweetened beverages such as soda, red meat, and processed meat such as smoked and cured foods. Skip these processed products; instead pick fresh vegetables and fruit, whole grains, and nuts.
These numbers may not sound impressive . . . a couple of pounds here, a pound there . . . but health experts now realize it’s the small everyday choices that add up to keep people at a healthy weight and help them lose those extra pounds when they need to.
You read that right. Don’t read food labels. If you’re reading a lot of food labels, you’re already on the wrong track. You don’t need a label to tell you apples, broccoli, carrots, cherries, and oats are healthy. You just know they are. If you’re constantly scanning labels to count fat grams and compare calorie counts, pick simpler, whole foods instead.
Your goal? Eat no more than one or two foods with a label each day. Try plain oatmeal instead of processed cereal, for example. You can add fresh fruit and nuts to make your oatmeal delicious, and those foods don’t have labels either!
Hang out with like-minded folks to keep pounds in check. Obesity, like the common cold or the flu, can be “contagious.” The more overweight friends and family members a person has, the more likely he or she is to be overweight.
This doesn’t mean you should ditch your social circle if you have overweight friends. Instead, you need to cultivate the behaviors of “thinner-thinking” peers with your loved ones. Some ways to do this include: