Egg Research: eat eggs, reduce hunger and calories throughout the day

New research reports that eating protein in the morning helps manage hunger

Park Ridge, Ill. (April 6, 2010) – A new study demonstrates that eating protein-rich eggs for breakfast reduces hunger and decreases calorie consumption at lunch and throughout the day. The study, published in the February issue of Nutrition Research, found that men who consumed an egg-based breakfast ate significantly fewer calories when offered an unlimited lunch buffet compared to when they ate a carbohydrate-rich bagel breakfast of equal calories.(1) This study supports previous research which revealed that eating eggs for breakfast as part of a reduced-calorie diet helped overweight dieters lose 65 percent more weight and feel more energetic than dieters who ate a bagel breakfast of equal calories and volume.(2)


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Super-sized meals are going to cost you in calories and dollars

A recent Men's Health article explains how not to order food when in restaurants and elsewhere. The extra calories are NOT a “bargain”:

• 7-Eleven: Gulp to Double Gulp Coca-Cola Classic: 37 cents extra buys 450 more calories.
• Cinnabon: Minibon to Classic Cinnabon: 48 more cents buys 370 more calories.
• Movie theater: Small to medium unbuttered popcorn: 71 additional cents buys you 500 more calories.
• Convenience store: Regular to “The Big One” Snickers: 33 more cents packs on 230 more calories.
• McDonald’s: Quarter Pounder with Cheese to Medium Quarter Pounder with Cheese Extra Value Meal: An additional $1.41 gets you 660 more calories.
• Subway: 6-inch to 12-inch Tuna Sub: $1.53 more buys 420 more calories.
• Wendy’s: Classic Double with Cheese to Classic Double with Cheese Old Fashioned Combo Meal: $1.57 extra buys you 600 more calories.
• Baskin Robbins: Chocolate Chip Ice Cream, Kids’ Scoop, to Double Scoop: For another $1.62, you’ve added 390 calories.

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The Fruitcake Diet

Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus.

But, no, there is no such thing as a fruitcake diet.

Well, not exactly. The real fruitcake diet is this – you simply don’t eat the fruitcake! Not now. Not ever. That’s your diet for ya. It should be very easy to do.

The simple truth about eating fruitcake is this:

1- it doesn’t taste good

2- it is not that good for ya

3- the calories are not worth it

4- there are better things to eat

5- you don’t want to be known as a fruitcake (consumer)

A given 1.5 ounce slice of fruitcake looks like this nutritionally: 224 calories, 26 percent of calories from fat, 7 g fat, 3 g saturated fat, 39 mg cholesterol, 40 g carbohydrates. So not that bad, but not that good. Seriously. It will take a brisk 44-minute walk to burn it all off. And who is going to do that over the next couple of days with all that snow out there across the country??? The answer is – not you.

Also, a given fruitcake typically has no vitamin A or C. Again, about 224 calories of junk.

The only people that want you to eat the fruitcake is Aunt Gladys at 224 pounds herself, and maybe your mom. That’s it. Two people. You can easily persuade them that you are saving room for other items at the table.

So, again, this is not a fruitcake diet because we don’t believe in diets because Diets Suck. Right? Right.

Free Taco's! today only at Taco Bell!!!

Ding-dong! Today is "Free Taco Day" at Taco Bell.

We hoped you missed it. Here's the (fat supported) data:

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The economic lesson - "there's no such thing as a free lunch" - may seem like a pun, but it really applies here. Don't do it America! Stay healthy!!!