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Nutritionists have long been telling us that breakfast is the most important meal of the day and that you should have breakfast like a king, lunch like a commoner and dine like a pauper.

For long the position on breakfast has been that if you are trying to lose weight then you must have breakfast and that you miss breakfast at your own peril.

However there is a counter view that says breakfast is not the most important meal of the day.

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The Juicing Diet

Consuming more fruits and vegetables is definitely beneficial to your overall health.  Most of us dont eat enough of this food group proportionately to the rest of our diet.  These two facts are well established and well publicized in many health articles.

Fruit and vegetable smoothies increase our intake of this food group in a quick and palatable manner and that is a wonderful thing.  Juicing your fruits and vegetables, according to television and internet advertisements, makes the body better absorb larger amounts of the nutrients.

They state that you will get more beneficial enzymes, better immune boosting, more antioxidants and even boost your metabolism by juicing your fruits and vegetables.

Smoothies and juices made from fresh fruits and vegetables are certainly a healthy drink.  The juicer enthusiasts state that juices are healthier than the solid form of these foods.  According to a newspaper article written by Michael Rozein, M.D. and

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While exercises are important for those ripped six pack abs, what is also vitally important is an appropriate six pack abs diet which will help you lower the body fat percentage and add definition to the underlying muscles of the abdomen.

Here are the things that you should include in your diet to get six pack abs:

  • Probably the most important component of a six pack abs diet is good quality protein, which can be obtained from lean cuts of meat, eggs, fish, and low fat dairy such as skim milk, whey protein drinks, soy, nuts, beans and legumes.
  • Carbs should be part of a six pack abs diet; it is not wise to cut them out altogether.

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What is the Paleo Diet?

I have to admit, when I saw the name, I thought of a plant based diet, or vegetarian. I guess because the name sort of sounds like the word plant.  But when I really thought about it, that was silly, because they were really naming this diet out of a period of time where humans ate certain foods in the hunting and gathering age of man.

This was the time when men and women did not have access to such processed and unhealthy foods as we do today. Foods were simple, stripped down. Even the way they cooked their foods was minimal because they only had one way to do it with fire.

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