When watching what you eat to get quickest weight loss results, should you be concerned with calories as fat?
When watching what you eat to get quickest weight loss results and exercising regularly, should you be as concerned with calories as with fat content? For successful weight loss, how many grams of fat/day are necessary for a girl age 16?
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What do you think of Feingold’s diet for hyperactive children?
What do you think of Feingold's diet for hyperactive children? My friend told me to take my son off a lot of foods.
The Feingold diet for hyperkinetic children is based on removing all foods with sugar, preservatives, color dyes and salicylates from a child's diet. Specific foods are omitted.
Hyperactive children vary from three to...
Do you have information on the Finegold Diet?
I was wondering if you had any information on what is called the "Finegold Diet"? It could be used, from what I understand, for patients (children) with Attention Deficit Disorders perhaps as a last resort for treatment. I do understand that it isn't proven to be of benefit, but may not be harmful either....
What concerns me is the sudden slow down of growth of my son in the last 2 years.
My question is regarding my son. I am concerned about his rate of growth. How much weight and height should a child gain during the 2nd and 3rd years of life. My son is 34 months and is 35.5 inches and 28 pounds. At birth he was 8 pounds 6 ounces and 20.5 inches;...
I am 18 year old male, 6 feet 7 inches tall, and I am starting to feel uncomfortable about my height.
I am an 18 year old male. My father is 6 feet 2 inches and my mother is 5 feet 10 inches. I am currently 6 feet 7 inches and I am still growing. I have been putting on about 4 inches each year for the last four years. I am starting to feel...
Our daughter who is 4 seems to have less than normal bowel movements sometimes going without for 4 to 5 days.
Our daughter, who is four, seems to have less than normal bowel movements sometimes going four to five days without. The last couple of bowel movements have been hard and we have seen traces of blood in the stool. Our pediatrician has prescribed Dulcolax, a stool softener, twice daily with no real success. The...
I weight 118 pounds and I’m 5 feet 3 inches. What is a good exercise program for me?
Hi! I am a 14-year-old female. I weigh about 118 and I'm 5 feet 3 inches. I play basketball on a team and in the gym. I'm not overweight though I'd like to weigh about 110. I especially need to take some weight off my thighs. What's a good exercise program for me? Thank...
Everything I read says that children do not need salt or sugar.
Everything I read says that children do not need salt or sugar. I made all my own baby food, but now I am confused by some nutrition information on labels. How much sodium or sugar is too much? The labels give milligrams or grams and I don't know what it means.
I'm a mother with...
I am 16 years old and have lost 80 pounds. When I can’t stop eating, I’m afraid of gaining weight back.
I am 16 years old. In the past 8 months, I have lost 80 lbs. and now weigh about 146. I've used your Healthy Body Calculator and it said that I have a daily allowance of 2500 calories.
That is all fine. Here is my problem. There are times when I can't stop eating. I'm...
I hae a 12 month old daughter. Her pediatrician is very concerned taht she is not growing. He requrested I give her antihistimine before bed to increase her appetite....
I have a 12-month-old daughter. She was 6 weeks premature and weighed 5 lb. 8oz. She has been very healthy her first year and had good weight gain the first 6 months. The second 6 months she has only gained 2 1/2 pounds. At her one year check up she weighed 18 lbs. 13...