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I read this list with some trepidation.  What am I eating that I thought was good for losing weight that really isn't (though the scale probably tells me, anyway)? According to Greg Presto at yahoo health, the list contains some foods that are obvious, and others that aren't. Like, take, for example, Dannon Light&Fit yogurt.  I live on the Greek kind (hope that's not next!), but this one, says Presto, takes t he "light" part--removing the fat from the yogurt--a step that actually makes it less satisfying, "so you're bound to be starving an hour after eating." What's worse is the fat is replaced with sugar, 16 grams of carbs, 11 of which are, you guessed it, sugar. That's a popular trick of many "light" foods. They have to make it taste good somehow. Next foe of diets: instant breakfast drinks.  More than 50% of their ingredients are, yes, again, sugar. " This super-sweet beverage can actually make you hungrier,...

I've heard it both ways.   Eat before a workout.  Don't eat before a workout.  Now Gretchen Reynolds weighs in (pun not intended!) on what's better to do. Reynolds, who herself has run marathons, writes that she was orginally told that "pre-exercise calories would lead to a quick increase in blood sugar — a sugar high — followed by an equally speedy blood-sugar trough, known as 'rebound hypoglycemia,' which would arrive in the middle of our race or workout and wreck performance." This idea came from d ecades-old studies showing that blood-sugar levels and performance tended to decline if athletes ate or drank sugary foods or drinks just before exercise, according to Reynolds. But this has since been debunked. I remember marathoner friends eating pounds of spaghetti the night before the race. Eating easily-digestible carbs before working out can help you stay the course longer, though, research has found, and if you run or lift weights, she says, ...