If you want to lose weight and keep it off, you must maintain a balanced routine of healthy eating and exercise.
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I can lose weight if I drink more water.
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Intense exercise is the only way to lose weight.
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A healthy diet helps to protect against malnutrition in all its forms, as well as noncommunicable diseases (NCDs), including diabetes, heart disease, stroke and cancer
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Limiting intake of free sugars to less than 10% of total energy intake is part of a healthy diet.
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breastfeeding fosters healthy growth and improves cognitive development, and may have longer term health benefits such as reducing the risk of becoming overweight or obese and developing NCDs later in life.
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Fat intake, especially saturated fat and industrially-produced trans-fat intake, can be reduced by: steaming or boiling instead of frying when cooking;
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Eating at night will make you gain weight
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If the label says "no-fat" or "low-fat," you can eat all you want and not gain weight.