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Culinary Intelligence tells the story of one New York magazine food writer who dropped 40 pounds and still managed to live life to the fullest.

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In the mid-1990s, Peter Kaminsky, a self-proclaimed hedonist, landed the perfect gig. As the writer behind New York magazine's "Underground Gourmet" column, he was paid to patrol the outer reaches of the boroughs in search of the tastiest ethnic fare. When he wasn't sampling Vietnamese, Korean, Greek, Cuban, or West Indian cuisine, his duty was to discover little-known, up-and-coming restaurants. And as the magazine's go-to food writer, Kaminsky was also called upon whenever the likes of Daniel Boulud, Alain Ducasse, or Thomas Keller opened a new bastion of four-star-fare. Some of New York's greatest chefs hired him as a co-writer (and taster-in-chief) for their cookbooks.

There was one occupational hazard. When Kaminsky, who is five foot-nine, became the Underground Gourmet, he weighed 172 pounds and wore trousers with 34-inch waistbands. After a few years on the job, he had crossed the 200-pound line and struggled to wiggle into XL T-shorts and 38-inch pants. The wake-up call came when his life insurance renewal was denied. "The choice was clear," he writes. "Mend my munching or fast-forward to Judgment Day."

And mend he did, shedding 40 pounds, getting his blood sugar levels under control, and regaining his insurance policy. Culinary Intelligence is the story of how he accomplished what many dieticians say is impossible: losing weight and keeping it off.

"Intelligence" is the operative word. Kaminsky tells his story with engaging, thoughtful prose--no gimmicky diets, no impossible-to-follow menu plans. He believes in gratification, not denial. "For a change in diet to succeed, it must be at least as satisfying as the unheathful fast food and processed ingredients that it replaces," he writes. In fact, one of the reasons he decided to lose weight was so that he could look forward to many more years of drinking great wines and eating juicy steaks.

The guiding principle to eating intelligently (and with full pleasure) according to Kaminsky is by maximizing what he calls Flavor per Calorie, or FPC. FPC simply means consuming the very best food and drink you can get. Beer, which Kaminsky still enjoys, provides a good example of FPC in action. Guzzling a Coors fails to quench that beer-y thirst, so you pop another can. On the other hand, a full-bodied, hoppy, yeasty craft brew invites you to sip and savor its complexity. One bottle leaves you satisfied, and packs no more calories than a bland, industrial brew. The intense flavor of fresh seasonal fruits and vegetables satisfies; there's no need for high-calorie sauces and sweeteners to breathe life into out-of-season produce. A modest portion of grass-fed beef delivers more satisfaction than the dreary meat from industrial feedlots. And -- critically -- cooking those ingredients well (or living with someone who does) maximizes FPC.

Although there are few outright taboos in Culinary Intelligence, Kaminsky does point out areas where those trying to shed pounds go at their peril. If you want to lose weight, Kaminsky has three words of advice: "No white stuff," meaning white flour, white sugar, white rice, and potatoes. He suggests you avoid desserts and sweetened beverages. All forms of processed food are antithetical to FPC. And he suggests you examine your diet for high value targets to eliminate. In Kaminsky's case, it was pizza. As a pizza-loving writer working from home in Brooklyn -- a pizza paradise -- he was in the habit of nipping out at midday and heading to one of the many good parlors in his neighborhood. A little calculation showed that his pizza habit added the equivalent of two extra days' worth of calories to his weekly diet -- he was eating nine days' worth of food every seven. Daily sojourns to the pizza parlor became a thing of the past, although he occasionally picks up a slice as a special treat.

Liquor can be part of intelligent eating -- in moderation. Kaminsky urges readers to set limits and stick to them. After some introspection, Kaminsky decided that he could survive on one glass of wine with dinner, where his earlier self might have enjoyed three or four. One glass forced him to savor every precious drop and increased the satisfaction he got from wine.

In the end, eating mindfully rests on three commonsense pillars:

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ROANOKE COUNTY, VA --

In 10 On Your Side Health Team -an update on the local spin-off to NBC's "The Biggest Loser.

As we've reported The Green Ridge Rec Center in Roanoke County is sponsoring the "Lose Big" program.

Katie Cordani is getting better and better at the exercises her trainer has planned for each work out.

She's on her feet, her back, and even her hands fighting to drop weight.

The mother of three says, she's winning the battle.

"I went out and bought smaller clothes this weekend. I was so excited, I was expecting to buy larges and I was putting on mediums and they were comfortable and they were actually kind of loose and was like this is so cool, I was so excited. I texted my mom as I was in the dressing room," Cordani said.

Katie had that priceless moment in the dressing room thanks to a lot of sweat at the gym.

Her trainer, Chelsea Arner, says she's working Katie harder and she's complaining a lot less.

"A lot of times half way through most people will drop off start not to come as often, but Katie has stepped it up even more so she's really doing great and still losing weight," said Arner.

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Since giving birth to baby Weston last September, Jenna Fischer says she's got way more important things to worry about than when she'll lose her baby weight.

"I think it's unnatural," the Office star, 38, told Celebuzz during a recent interview about the rush most new celebrity moms are in to slim down.

Explained Fischer, "There's so much pressure on you as a new mom that the last thing you need to have hanging over your head is some expectation of what your body is supposed to look like."

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Stressing that new mothers should get a "free pass," the actress added that she's "actually angered by the 'posing in a bikini six weeks after having my baby' [trend]."

"Who cares if our boobs are hanging low and we have a little more junk in the trunk?" Fischer continued. "We created a human being, everybody. Let's celebrate!"

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At the Screen Actors Guild Awards in January, the actress--wed to screenwriter Lee Kirk--told Us Weekly she doesn't buy into the popular "I'm just breastfeeding" defense some A-list moms give when talking about shedding pregnancy weight gain.

"Let me please stand in solidarity with all of the women who are not a size 2 six weeks after leaving the hospital," she told Us. "I am breastfeeding my baby and I am not getting any skinnier!"

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"Why are there so many people who are overweight? Dont they like to live healthy and keep their weight under control? Of course they do, but getting the right information about losing weight is not easy with so much misinformation around" says Andrew Simmons, creator of the website. He further explains that "Health & Fitness Pro website was created so that the public has access to reliable and highly informative content that provides a wealth of information about overcoming weight issues. With obesity continuing to rise, especially in the western countries, even governments have given this issue priority by formulating national plans to educate the public about the health risks and how to overcome them by eating healthy. Even fast food giants are now compelled to offer people a choice to order a healthy meal." According to Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), If obesity is not controlled, 75% of Americans will be overweight by 2020.

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This website covers other health issues and explains about how to speed up the metabolism, how menopause can affect weight gain, causes of belly fat, natural supplements and even cellulite solutions. Information is also available on what to eat during pregnancy so that proper nutrition is received by the mother and baby, without overeating. This can be very helpful when the mother needs to get back into shape after giving birth. Health & Fitness Pro guides people who are looking to lose weight without taking shortcuts or risking their health. More on ways to melt the fat from Health & Fitness Pro - http://www.healthnfitnesspro.com/lose-tummy-fat.php

According to Andrew Simmons "Visitors to this website can find in-depth information on not only how to lose weight, but keeping it off too. This is where many people get demoralized. That is after losing weight they are unable to maintain the new weight and start to pile on the pounds again. The not so 'secret' to weight loss is changing a persons' current lifestyle that is the cause of the weight issues, to a much healthier lifestyle. It is mostly about the right food choices, being more active and a positive outlook."

Health & Fitness Pro provides sensible information on tackling weight problems. Emphasis is made on having the right mindset to prepare you for those "give up" moments, enabling anyone to achieve lasting success.

Learn more about overcoming your weight loss issues at http://www.healthnfitnesspro.com. For more information, questions or comments, contact Andrew Simmons via email at andrew_6906(at)yahoo(dot)com.

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Cut back on carbs to lose a few pounds, by all means, but if you start to view white sliced as the devil incarnate and shudder at the mere sight of spuds, you could be suffering from carborexia which can affect your happiness as well as your health, says Charlotte Methven

My name is Charlotte and I am a recovering carborexic. For many months, I balked at the sight of a bread basket and couldnt so much as eat a piece of sushi without imagining that the little blob of sticky rice was somehow going to give me a muffin top. And I was not alone Say the word carbohydrate to a group of women and youll induce a collective shudder.

Not so long ago, to lose weight you simply ate less food. But a steady wave of trendy diets over the past few decades, from Atkins (founded in the 1970s and rediscovered in the mid-noughties) and South Beach, to the current favourite Dukan, have managed to convince us that the secret to a slim figure lies not in mere moderation, as good sense would dictate, but in adopting a low-carb diet. Where once calories were ruthlessly counted and controlled, now its potatoes, cereals, pasta, rice and bread foods that were once staples but have now been invested with evil powers and unceremoniously ejected from our diets.

Google carborexia and you will be directed to endless web pages devoted to a condition gripping eco-obsessives hellbent on reducing their carbon footprint. But the term has now also been adopted by the equally fanatical anti-carbohydrate brigade. We are fast becoming a generation of pasta-shunning carborexics.

On-trend sandwich chain Prt--Manger responded to the demand for low-carb fast food by introducing its No Bread Crayfish & Avocado sandwich in other words, a salad (and now a bestseller) and Waitrose followed suit when it launched a 125-calorie Lettuce Boat, a sandwich using lettuce instead of bread.

I am not proud to admit that I succumbed to this madness when my marriage broke up last year. I was so consumed by anxiety that I was unable to eat much at all, and my weight dropped to just over seven stone. Though I had never set out to lose weight, the feeling of being waifish was intoxicating. Because I was going through a hard time emotionally, looking fragile reflected how I felt. I didnt want to let it go. At a time when life felt uncertain, my carbohydrate intake was something that I could control.

And it felt great, most of the time. I adored never having that full feeling after a meal, and because I was still eating protein and vegetables, I usually had enough energy. Very occasionally I would feel slightly light-headed in the afternoon, and in a to-hell-with-it moment attack the biscuit jar (and afterwards feel very guilty). However, I have no doubt that had I carried on with a super low-carb diet long term, I would have started to feel less and less well. And psychologically it never did feel right. Once paranoia about eating these foods becomes a habit, it is a hard one to shake. Whenever I was forced usually out of good manners at someone elses home to eat carbs, afterwards I could almost feel them swelling in my body and causing me to expand. My mind played tricks on me.

This led to some strange eating behaviour. I would find myself tucking into roast lamb for Sunday lunch, but desperately pushing the accompanying potatoes to the edge of my plate, or picking the mushrooms out of a risotto, while leaving the gloopy pile of rice to one side. Breakfast was a particular challenge; with cereal, toast, croissants, muffins and more or less any other food typically associated with the morning meal all out of the picture, few options remained, and Id usually just have four cups of tea and wait for lunch. Ill never forget spending a weekend with two immaculately trim gay friends both self-confessed carbophobes and being offered a choice of a boiled egg (no soldiers!), natural yoghurt or smoked salmon for breakfast. It was a great relief.

Deanne Jade, founder of the National Centre for Eating Disorders, says that carborexia is becoming more common and is similar to the more widely known orthorexia (a compulsion to eat organic or biologically correct food). Both, like anorexia, involve a desire to control food at a time when other areas of life seem difficult to manage, as was the case with me. Both carborexics and orthorexics adopt healthy eating as a proxy for weight loss, she says. Carborexics invest these foods with all kinds of dangers so they represent all that is bad and wrong and then they can justify staying away from them and feeling in control. They go to naturopaths or homeopaths who tell them that theyre wheat- or gluten-intolerant, which they mightnt be necessarily. Its easier to deal with a demon you can control, such as bread, than having to confront real issues, such as family and relationship problems, which often lie behind our feelings towards food.

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Editor's note: Dr. Melina Jampolis, CNN's diet and fitness expert, is a physician nutrition specialist and the author of "The Calendar Diet: A Month by Month Guide to Losing Weight While Living Your Life."

(CNN) -- Q: Is there a safe way to drop weight quickly for spring break?

A: A juice fast or cleanse may help you drop weight quickly, but such measures can leave you tired and flabby. Cleanses lack the nutrients you need, and you may lose muscle as a result of inadequate protein intake.

Instead, here are some tips to help you drop weight quickly while maintaining muscle mass and keeping energy levels high:

Double your vegetable intake and cut carbohydrates in half.

Research shows that dieters lose weight more quickly on a low-carb diet, but generally only for the first six to 12 weeks. So if you want to drop weight quickly, cutting back on starchy carbs -- bread, pasta, rice, potatoes, cereal, crackers -- can help.

Increasing your vegetable intake helps you cut calories without cutting portion sizes, allowing you to feel full on fewer calories.

For a health bonus, cut out sugar and processed grains, as these carbs are the least satisfying and nutritious.

Make workouts more effective.

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Drop weight quickly for spring break

STORY HIGHLIGHTS

Editor's note: Dr. Melina Jampolis, CNN's diet and fitness expert, is a physician nutrition specialist and the author of "The Calendar Diet: A Month by Month Guide to Losing Weight While Living Your Life."

(CNN) -- Q: Is there a safe way to drop weight quickly for spring break?

A: A juice fast or cleanse may help you drop weight quickly, but such measures can leave you tired and flabby. Cleanses lack the nutrients you need, and you may lose muscle as a result of inadequate protein intake.

Instead, here are some tips to help you drop weight quickly while maintaining muscle mass and keeping energy levels high:

Double your vegetable intake and cut carbohydrates in half.

Research shows that dieters lose weight more quickly on a low-carb diet, but generally only for the first six to 12 weeks. So if you want to drop weight quickly, cutting back on starchy carbs -- bread, pasta, rice, potatoes, cereal, crackers -- can help.

Increasing your vegetable intake helps you cut calories without cutting portion sizes, allowing you to feel full on fewer calories.

For a health bonus, cut out sugar and processed grains, as these carbs are the least satisfying and nutritious.

Make workouts more effective.

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Even before you start exercising, you can use plenty of tricks to eliminate visceral fat, improve your flab-burning metabolic process, and start losing weight fast.

And for more great ways to and lose weight and stay slim for good, pick up a copy of The Men's Health Diet today! It combines the latest findings in exercise and nutrition with practical how-to advice that will transform your body into a fat-burning machine.

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Eat iron-rich foods Iron is essential for carrying the oxygen your muscles need to burn fat. Unless you restock your store, you run the risk of low energy and a sagging metabolism. Shellfish, lean meats, beans, fortified cereals, and spinach are excellent sources. (But it's not always a good idea to take a supplement. Too much iron has been linked to a greater risk of heart disease in men. Get this essential mineral in natural doses from real foods.)

Get more D Vitamin D is essential for preserving metabolism-revving muscle tissue. Unfortunately, researchers estimate that a measly 20 percent of Americans take in enough through their diet. Get 90 percent of your recommended daily value (400 IU) in a 3.5-ounce serving of salmon. Other good sources: tuna, fortified milk and cereals, and eggs.

You Might Need More Than Milk if You're Low on This Life-Saving Vitamin

Drink milk There's some evidence that calcium deficiency may slow metabolism. Research shows that consuming calcium in dairy foods such as fat-free milk and low-fat yogurt may also reduce fat absorption from other foods.

Eat watermelon The amino acid arginine, abundant in watermelon, might promote weight loss, according to a new study in the Journal of Nutrition. Researchers supplemented the diets of obese mice with arginine over 3 months and found that it decreased body-fat gains by a whopping 64 percent. Adding this amino acid to the diet enhanced the oxidation of fat and glucose and increased lean muscle, which burns more calories than fat does. Snack on watermelon and other arginine sources, such as seafood, nuts, and seeds, year-round. How to Beat The Biggest Killers of Men

Stay hydrated All of your body's chemical reactions, including your metabolism, depend on water. If you are dehydrated, you may be burning up to 2 percent fewer calories, according to researchers at the University of Utah who monitored the metabolic rates of 10 adults as they drank varying amounts of water per day. In the study, those who drank either eight or twelve 8-ounce glasses of water a day had higher metabolic rates than those who had four.

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1. Birth Control Pills Weight Gain - This may be a young woman's first experience with stubborn fat and losing the same 10 pounds over and over and over. Birth control pills or devices that alter your hormones can actually create lifelong weight issues but it's nothing an anti-estrogenic diet can't fix fast. 2. College Weight Gain - Also known as the Freshman 15 was declared a myth by a new research study but I can tell you from personal experience that it's very real since it happened to me and virtually every female in my dorm. The good news is losing it is easy! 3. Illness or Injury Weight Gain - This is often related to decreased activity and medications that wreak havoc on your hormones, your digestive system, and/or your sleep cycle. Initially an illness or injury may cause weight loss but once you get treatment and start taking meds the weight gain can be extreme. 4. Job Weight Gain - According to a CareerBuilder survey, " 49% of workers say they've gained weight at their current jobs, 28% of workers have gained more than 10 pounds at his or her present job, while an additional 13 % of employees have gained more than 20 pounds." CNN 5. Newlywed Spread - According to a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill study "the average newly married woman piles on about 9 extra pounds over five years compared with a single woman" Fitness Magazine. 6. Pregnancy & Post Pregnancy Weight Gain - According to experts the reason so many women struggle with this is they overestimate calorie needs during pregnancy and if nursing. They also tend to get less sleep than they need which can shift the body into a fat storing state (much like shift workers). I made both of these mistakes post pregnancy. 7. Perimenopause & Menopause Weight Gain - According to my continuing education course on both these topics this type of weight gain is actually optional because unbalanced hormones can become more balanced with a healthy diet, exercise, and certain medications. 8. Stress Weight Gain - Also called cortisol weight gain typically has more to do with emotional eating brought on by stressful life events such as relationship issues, financial trouble, job or loss of job related stress, family problems, etc. Fortunately the human body is designed to handle high levels of cortisol as long as you're eating a super healthy diet, getting enough sleep, and exercising daily. BTW, I do know what this is like, having been through a depressing divorce and job loss simultaneously. Simple Solutions to Lose Weight & Avoid Weight Gain The solutions listed below are simple, unglamorous, and certainly not as exciting as pills, injections, and fancy medical procedures but they work all the time for any female of any age with any of the 8 causes of weight gain above. In fact they work faster and the only side effect is a happier healthier life. The trick to these solutions is having the courage to say no to all the other quick fixes vying for your attention.

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Snacking can be a help or a hindrance when it comes to managing your weight.

Reasonable snacking can stave off hunger and prevent overeating at meals. But the problem seems to be in determining what is reasonable.

Americans snack more now than in past decades. A study done at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and published in The Journal of Nutrition compared data about snacking from national health surveys done between 1977 and 2006. During this time, Americans increased the percent of calories from snacking from 18 percent of total calories in 1977 to 24 percent of total calories in 2006. Twenty-four percent of calories from snacking equates to about 600 calories per day.

And what Americans snack on has changed. There has been a huge increase in salty snacks, both the low- and high-fat versions, from 2 percent of total snacking calories in 1977 to just more than 14 percent of total snacking calories in 2006.

Consumption of candy, nuts and seeds and cereals also increased. The amount of snacking on high-fat desserts, like cake, decreased, but snacking on low-fat desserts, like reduced-fat cookies, increased.

Surprisingly, consumption of regular sodas remained about the same, but intake of fruit drinks and sports drinks increased. Consumption of fresh fruit, recommended by most health professionals as part of a healthy snack, decreased. During this time

period, obesity rates have dramatically increased.

Maybe Americans snack so much because food is so widely available and so heavily advertised. According to Mintel Menu Insights, a consumer market research firm, menu items at restaurants classified as a "snack item" have increased by 170 percent since 2007.

McDonald's has a Snack Wrap (a beef patty with condiments wrapped in a tortilla), and KFC has "Snackers," a smaller version of the typical chicken sandwich that comes in several varieties. A McDonald's Grilled Snack Wrap with Ranch dressing has 270 calories, while a KFC Snacker has 210 to 310 calories, depending on the type you choose. These are more like a small meal than a snack, and if you add a sweet beverage (around 150 calories) or a small order of French fries (around 200 calories), you would increase the calories significantly.

Many dietitians recommend keeping snacks in the 100- to 200-calorie range. If you eat snacks that are a lot more than that, it can drive up your overall calories for the day.

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