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How much do you believe your diet affects your job performance?

I know for sure when I don't eat regularly, I get tired and a bit cranky! And, I suppose if I think about it, a poor diet could potentially effect my job performance too.

If your job requires that you are responsible for the safety of others, the results of a recent small study may be of interest to you. Researchers found that what a pilot eats may impact the way they perform on the job.

I've noticed recently some of the posters on Diet-Blog Share have been asking about how to maintain weight loss.

There's no doubt about it, despite the large amount of books and other resources available these days, the big problem most people seem to have isn't with losing weight, but maintaining weight loss.

Is there anything more frustrating and guilt-inducing than losing weight only to see those pounds slowly creep back on?

The long-term success rates of diets is shockingly low. Figures vary on this, but at best, about 10% of dieters manage to maintain their new, lower weight.

So, what can you do to make sure you don't stand on the scales one day only to realise you're back to square one?

Wouldn't you agree the diet industry is saturated with unhealthy weight loss misconceptions? This has helped lead to an explosion of behaviors, which do little to encourage good health and well-being in the long run.

I hate the fact that in our day and age for some people "health" equals "fad dieting!"

While there's a general consensus that to lose weight the calories you burn must exceed the calories you consume, how you decide to achieve that goal is certainly up for debate.

I am constantly amazed, horrified and completely baffled by the bizarre weight loss plans people follow these days in an attempt to slim down.

Whatever the reason, it can be hard to recover momentum after a break. Here are ten easy ways to restart your diet:

But now, a new study suggests regular phone or email counseling helps people improve their diet and lose weight, especially for those unwilling to seek face-to-face support.

While the jury's still out on whether or not nutritional supplements are truly worth their rather hefty price tags, there's little question as to whether vegetables can do a body good. However, not everyone enjoys the taste of vegetables (ask any 12-year-old kid what he thinks of Brussels sprouts and you'll see what I mean). Does this mean these people are doomed to living a less nutritious life?

But the dude's diet leaves a lot to be desired. You wouldn't think 12,000 calories of mayonnaise, white bread and chocolate chip pancakes would be part of an Olympian's diet.

And apparently it isn't.

We also LOVE to eat! And now new research claims watching all this death and destruction may actually cause us to consume MORE than we already do.

When a country experiences an economic crisis, it is hard to find a silver lining. In Cuba, however, citizens have seen a remarkable change in their nation's health since a major economic fallout between 1990-1993.

A double whammy of the US embargo combined with the collapse of the Soviet Union had left the citizens of Cuba unable to afford much food or gas - forcing people to eat less and walk everywhere. Here are some of the events that transpired, according to a report from the Canadian Medical Association Journal: