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Can you lose weight without dieting?   Can you eat what you want and lose weight?   New year, new goals.   If one of your goals is to take off a few pounds, do you need to count calories, go on a diet, or just watch the clock?   There is a new weight-loss strategy called, “time-restricted feeding” or TRF.   Apparently, this TRF strategy is not only for weight loss but also to help prevent diabetes, lower your blood pressure and increase your longevity. Recent articles in the Wall Street Journal, “ A Diet Strategy That Counts Time, Not Calories ” and other publications outlines what this strategy is and how it works.    What is TRF?   (Time Restricted Feeding)? With TRF, you eat what you want but not when you want.   Your eating is limited to a 12-hour period of time each day.   So, if you eat your breakfast at 7 AM, you need to finish your dinner and evening snacks by 7 PM and then not eat again until your breakfast at 7 AM.   Thus,...

So much added sugar in our diets.   We notice most of the added sugar in our diets, like the added sugar in candy, ice cream or desserts.   But so much added sugar is “stealth sugar” in our foods.   Manufacturers love to add sugar to common foods like bread and pasta sauce.   There is also so much confusion about “sugar” as some people avoid “sugar” and then end up avoiding milk because it has lactose, a natural sugar in milk. Or they stop eating fruit like bananas, as they mistakenly say, “bananas are high in sugar”, when bananas have NO ADDED SUGAR.   So, what should you know about added sugar?   Consumer Reports has provided an excellent guide called, Eat Smarter, Eat Healthier which includes information about we can cut back on the added sugar in our diet.    Can you enjoy some added sugar? Yes.   Who doesn’t like dessert, some ice cream, some cookies or other treat every day?   I do.   The problem is we eat way too many foods ...