Ask Healthy Living: Do 3,500 Calories REALLY Equal A Pound Of Fat?

March 5, 2013 Subscribe · Forward Ask Healthy Living: Do 3,500 Calories REALLY Equal A Pound Of Fat? Common dieting wisdom says that we'll lose one pound for every 3,500 calories we burn. Is that true? The above quoted formula is taken as dieting orthodoxy: to lose one pound of fat per week, simply create a 3,500 calorie deficit through diet and exercise et voila, lose a pound a week for as long as you can keep it up. If only it were that simple. Instead, the 3,500 fewer-calories-per-week strategy (what amounts to 500 fewer calories per day) is a good guideline to help create a calorie deficit, but that doesn't mean it will result in one pound lost every seven days.  Continue reading... Folklore Or Fact? Common Exercise Myths, Debunked The First Lady's Favorite Post-Exercise Snack Is... Could The Way You Cook Your Food Raise Diabetes Risk? Chef DJ 'Foodie' Lost 142 Pounds: 'Food Was Killing Me' Ask Healthy Living: Do 3,500 Calories REALLY Equal A Pound Of Fat? Scientists: Baby Born With HIV Apparently Cured How To Meditate Without Even Trying 6 Restoring Affirmations To Increase Your Awareness What You Don't Know About Processed Food Scientists: Baby Born With HIV Apparently Cured Spinach Recalled In 39 States Over E. Coli Concerns AMY CHAN 8 Lessons I Learned This Birthday I think we go through cycles of change -- when the complete unexpected throws you off your equilibrium -- giving you the opportunity to reassess and recalibrate. This past year was one of those cycles for me. Continue reading... CAROL J. SCOTT, M.D. From Multi-Tasking To Mindful-Tasking Our ability to focus on different things is one of the strengths of our truly incredible brains. It's a skill we would definitely not want to lose. However, psychologists and neurobiologists have both shown that we pay a price when we multitask. Continue reading... ANTHONY STRANO How This Age-Old Practice Can Help You Achieve Anything Spiritual motives such as cooperation, sharing, caring integrity and respect create quality in the aim, the task and the methodology used. Meditation, in the form of reflection, always helps me to reexamine and redefine my aims, my processes and the reasons why I am doing what I am doing. Continue reading... BEN GREENFIELD Want To Be A Better Athlete? How To Work Out Weight-loss workouts seem to be a dime a dozen, and easily found on fitness websites or in magazines. But what if your goals are more sport-specific and less focused on aesthetics? Continue reading... ED AND DEB SHAPIRO Losing Your Mind And Finding Your Self We usually take offense when someone says to us, "Are you out of your mind?" But what if it is actually the coolest thing to say? What if being out of our mind means we aren't disturbed or annoyed by the madness of our mind and are more in touch with our heart and our freedom? Continue reading... Received this from a friend? Sign up for alerts from The Huffington Post here. Unsubscribe here.