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Making the choice to eat smarter, healthier and less to promote weight loss is fantastic. Carrying through on the plan, however, is often easier said than done. If it’s time to lose weight by making better choices at the table, mediation can help more than many people realize. Meditation doesn’t have to involve long sessions sitting on a floor with palm up to the air. It really is nothing more than focusing the mind on a singular point while enabling other thoughts to fleet away for a time. At the dinner table, mediation techniques can promote smarter eating while enabling some people to eat a great deal less than they normally might. Here are some tips to get started: •    Be mindful of the foods selected – Before even sitting down and digging a fork in, carefully consider the food options. Select leaner, healthier choices and only put appropriate serving sizes on a plate. •    Concentrate on eating – Once a healthy meal is served, employ mediation techn...

Type 2 diabetics who are obese may find surgical intervention to reduce weight has a strong and positive impact on their blood sugar levels. For some, symptoms may even be reversed entirely. One of the mechanisms behind the reversal may involve the reduction of triacylglycerol evidenced in the pancreas following weight-loss surgery. Numerous studies have shown that surgical weight loss procedures can help type 2 diabetics shed pounds and better control symptoms. For some, the intervention results in the total reversal, especially if weight is shed during the first few years after onset. New studies are now shedding light on the role pancreatic triacyclglycerol may play. Researchers have found weight loss may reduce levels of this substance while improving insulin response in type 2 diabetics. Obesity is estimated to impact about a third of all adult Americans. For many, this condition gives rise to type 2 diabetes. This chronic condition is can become a progressive disease that may gi...