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Research Shows Maintaining a Healthy Weight Helps Prevent Mental Decline

Staying healthy and maintaining a healthy weight not only reduces your risk of developing chronic disease. It also helps maintain cognitive function. New Findings in Healthy Lifestyle Mental Benefits Research shows that that there is an association between being overweight or obese and impaired cognitive function. In addition, people with metabolic abnormalities such as diabetes … Read more

How to Control Late Night Eating

How to stop late night eating

Tired of giving in to late night eating?  You don’t want to ruin all your hard work to become lighter and healthier.  But, if you know you’re going to be up late and know you’ll want a snack, you can plan ahead to avoid needless weight gain. Here are some quick tips to help you … Read more

Sleep Deprivation and Weight Gain

Want to lose weight? Weight loss doctor in Bergen County NJ Dr. Betty Keller Explains How Sleep Impacts Weight Loss Could your lack of sleep be causing you to gain those extra-unwanted pounds? Make sure you are getting enough sleep. There have been many studies confirming the association of sleep deprivation and obesity in both … Read more

Why Blueberries Are the Perfect Snack

blueberries are the perfect snack

Blueberries are the “Super Stars among ‘Super Foods.’” Here’s Why: Blueberries Health Benefits Blueberries contain powerful phytochemicals which have strong antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties. Blueberries are one of the highest food sources of antioxidants. There is increasing evidence that Blueberries have many health benefits. Here are just a few! 1) Boost your Immune System: The … Read more

The Relationship Between Stress and Weight Loss

If you want to lose weight, should you care about stress? You may think that dealing with weight loss is stressful enough.  But it turns out that there is a strong connection between stress and weight loss. Taking care of stress can provide a big boost to your efforts to lose weight. There are two … Read more