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How to lose weight on a budget
PORTLAND, Ore. - If your New Year's resolutions includes dropping weight, you shouldn't worry about having to drop a bunch of cash, too.

Big Breakfast Helps You Lose Weight
It's those cravings that do us in -- cookies, ice cream, potato chips. The answer, however, is not to banish snacks from your home or to force yourself to resist those cravings through sheer strength of will. The key, according to a surprising new study, is to eat a big breakfast high in complex carbs and protein.

Still no fast way to lose weight
WASHINGTON - Before there was Dr. Atkins, there was William Banting. He invented the low-carb diet of 1863. Even then Americans were trying out advice that urged fish, mutton or "any meat except pork" for breakfast, lunch and dinner - hold the potatoes, please.

Is a low-carb diet the best way to lose weight?
I have a lifelong friend who believes that the Atkins diet is the only way to lose weight and "lead a healthy lifestyle." He eats hamburgers, bacon, steaks, roast beef, shrimp, drinks excessively, sleeps 12 to 15 hours a day, then sits and watches TV all day. Can you help me save a friend?