Like a wine tasting, a cheese tasting is a sensory experience, and discussing a cheese’s personality can be an amusing icebreaker.

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VIV’s own diet doctor shares 10 Do’s and Don’ts for your next week off.

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Some 66 percent of the U.S. population is overweight or obese. While there are many factors contributing to the problem, it seems that misinformation — from television news sources to conflicting nutrition claims on food packaging — has left many Americans confused.

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Recent findings from the International Food Information Council (IFIC) Foundation’s Food & Health Survey revealed that although we want to be healthy, most of us really don’t know how to put our thoughts into action.

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25 easy tactics to fight weight gain despite BBQs, wedding receptions, picnics, vacation blowouts and fruity cocktails.

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Although Atkins won out in a short-term study, the reality of choosing a diet that works for your body type and metabolism is a little more complicated. VIVmag’s diet doc leads you to the smartest choice for you — step by step.

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It’s not the occasional six-slice pizza pig-out that packs on pounds; it’s the tiny daily slip-ups. And no one knows better what those are than the diet doctor who reads your food diary.

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A recent report in the Archives of Internal Medicine shows that calorie-restrictive dieters lose bone mass when weight-bearing aerobic exercise isn’t part of their program.

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No matter how much you spend on weight-loss books, exercise machines and diet plans you are your own best friend and mortal enemy when it comes to stocking your fridge and cupboards, says Melina Jampolis, M.D., a board-certified internist and physician nutrition specialist (one of only 198 in the country).

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VIV Advisory Board member Melina Jampolis, M.D., a board-certified internist and physician nutrition specialist, gave us a sneak peak at her personal smart-supermarket-shopping list featured in her forthcoming book The No-Time-to-Lose Diet (Nelson Books, 2007).

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