An increase in dietary fibre will occur as fat-containing foods are replaced by food containing more carbohydrate. Methods for Increasing dietary fibre: – Use wholegrain bread and cereals such as brown rice, wholemeal spaghetti and other pasta, wholegrain breakfast cereal, wholegrain crispbread, oatmeal or wheatmeal biscuits, wholemeal flour and other wholegrain cereal foods. – Eat [...]
Physical aspects of anorexia nervosa Some of my anorexia patients tell me that they rarely feel hungry. They are so good at starving themselves, they say, because they’ve trained themselves to suppress hunger. I’ve dealt with enough patients to know that’s not always the case. These people may be frequently hungry. Their illness is such [...]
Whenever Cheryl Allard goes to the gym, she abides by her 10-minute rule: Use one machine for 10 minutes, then move on to something else. This strategy helped her beat the boredom that nearly ended her exercise program. It also helped her lose 100 pounds. Cheryl began working out in 1997 after finding out that [...]