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If you want to loose weight or don't want to gain extra pounds, here's a good weight loss tip for you: avoid distractions; pay attention to the food you are eating. Eating while watching Tv can make you eat more. @healthbiztips by Arlene Gentallan Your meal is something you'd like to pay attention to if you want to shed off extra pounds. This is backed up by solid research. A study by the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition reveals that when your attention is drawn away while eating, you tend to eat 50% more calories. Now, that's something you can't ignore. When you eat while you are distracted, you loose track of the amount of food you have already taken in. You just wolf down the entire meal. You know, it's a terrible habit to eat for the sake of chewing absent-mindedly. If you stick to this practice, you wouldn't even realize the cue that you are already full. It takes 20 minutes for your brain to send signal telling that you are already full. Your sat...

If you'd like to loose weight, then you have to burn more calories than you take in. Walking is one of the easiest form of exercise to burn calories. How much Calories do you Burn when Walking? @healthbiztips by Arlene Gentallan How much calories does a person actually burn when walking? Calories burned when walking varies from one person to another because there are lots of factors that have to be put into consideration. Factors like weight, distance, degree of inclination of surface (such us when walking uphill), the load you are carrying, and how fast you walk have an impact to the amount of calories you burn. According to The Walking Site, an average person takes about 2,000 footsteps to walk 1 mile which you'll complete in 30 minutes if you walk at the speed of 2 mph. By covering that distance, you're spending 100 calories. Generally, the heavier a person's weight is, the more calorie is burned. For example, people with varying weight walking the same distance of 1...