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When we asked RealAge members to share on their Facebook pages the yogurt they love the most, the hands down favorite was Greek yogurt, a trend that's been gaining momentum ever since Oprah mentioned on TV that it was like a low-fat version of whipped cream. True, Greek yogurt is creamier than ordinary yogurt. That's because the yogurt is strained, so most of the liquid whey is removed.

But can something this good really be healthy, or should you save it for a Sunday-morning treat? That depends on how you like it. The fruit-added kind is loaded with sugar, as is regular fruit-on-the-bottom yogurt. And if you're watching calories, nothing beats nonfat plain yogurt. (It also delivers more calcium.) But if you're counting protein grams, Greek yogurt takes the lead. In either case, if you want fruit, add fresh blueberries or a sliced banana, and leave the fruity yogurts of any kind on the shelf.

Here are four things that yogurt can do for you.

Here's how the different

Here's one reason why insomnia and night eating go together like Brad and Angie: There's not much to do in the wee hours except eat. But night eating doesn't discriminate. Even though you may sleep like a baby, if you end your evening with a bedtime snack of ice cream straight from the carton or spoonfuls of peanut butter right out of the jar, it's still called night eating.

And it can lead to "night eating syndrome" -- which is increasingly being recognized as an eating disorder -- if you consume more than 25% of your daily calories in the evening. But assuming your night eating is more habit and hunger than anything, these five steps can help you stop it and avoid the weight creep:

1. Set an evening curfew. If you must have an after-dinner treat, have it before your no-snacking curfew. And factor the calories into your daily budget. Despite what you may have heard, calories in food eaten at night are no different from those you had at breakfast, and they still count.

No question about it -- writing down the calories in every morsel that passes your lips or entering them on your diet app works. Countless studies prove it. But there's hope for the less conscientious. You can lose weight without playing the numbers game. Tip the scale in your favor with these calorie-paring tactics:

• Ah, chew! On average, people chew each mouthful of food just 15 times before swallowing, but a more thorough molar mash-up can melt pounds. Compared with people who chew less, people who chomped their food 40 times had lower blood levels of the appetite-hiking hormone ghrelin and higher levels of CCK, another hormone that's believed to suppress appetite, say the authors of a recent study. Even better, the chewers ate nearly 12% fewer calories. That could add up to a 25-pound loss over the course of a year!
• Set a skinny table. Simply eating off smaller plates can help you slim down. People who ate off salad plates rather than standard dinner plates

We've come a long way since SWAK and BYOB. Texting, tweeting and chatting have spawned hundreds of acronyms, from ALOL to ZZZ. We recently asked RealAge members on our Facebook page to post their favorite motivational acronyms -- shorthand "mantras" they love that help them stay fit and healthy and might motivate others, too. Here are 10 of our faves!

You've lost 5, 10, even 35 pounds. Congrats! Now comes the tough part: staying in your skinny jeans. If you don't think that's a big challenge, consider this: Eight out of ten dieters in a classic study regained lost weight within 2 years. Worse, "weight cycling" back up by more than 11 pounds can add inches to your waist, Italian researchers reported recently. But RealAge experts Mehmet Oz, MD, and Michael Roizen, MD, have a fix. In fact, they've got several, many based on what successful losers say helps them maintain a 30-pound loss for at least a year:

• Have low-fat protein at every meal. Protein keeps you feeling satisfied, so you're not thinking about those chocolate chip muffins your colleague brought to the office. Protein also helps you maintain muscle mass, which means your metabolism stays busy burning calories. Try skinless chicken or turkey. Lean cuts of beef and pork. Low- or no-fat dairy products (we're big fans of nonfat Greek yogurt).
• Exercise for

Get more health tips from RealAge:

• Take the RealAge Test, and get a personalized road map for looking and feeling younger.

• Suspect you have ADHD? Find out how your symptoms affect your friends and family.

• Find out when you should never give kids medicine.

• Give yourself a smile check. Take this tour of your mouth.

• Allergies, or a cold? Take this Allergy test and find out.

Your kid's after-school bellyache may not be a ruse to get out of doing homework. It really could be something he ate -- something that you packed in his lunch box, according to a new study. Just 90 minutes before it was time for school kids to dig into their homemade lunches, over 90% of more than 700 meals were at unsafe temperatures, even those with ice packs, report University of Texas at Austin researchers. What's unsafe? Perishable food that is allowed to sit in a school locker for 2 hours. It can begin breeding tummy-toxic bugs. E. coli on rye, anyone?

Brown-bag lunches have major advantages: They can be cheaper, are more likely to be eaten by picky kids, and are less likely to contribute to pudge. (Middle schoolers who frequent the lunchroom line are more likely to be overweight than those who bring their midday meals from home, according to at least one study.) Given all these pluses, how can parents pack lunches for kids that are safe to eat? Here are some healthy

One of the steep downsides of being a teenager is shaky self-esteem: Will I make the team? Get the girl (guy)? Pass the exam? You name it, kids sweat it.

These 25 healthy habits soup up kids' self-esteem and give them more energy and confidence -- which makes for happier kids. Who says? Two doctor-dads who also happen to be RealAge experts: Mehmet Oz, MD, and Michael Roizen, MD, authors of YOU: The Owner's Manual for Teens.

Your teenagers may already be following some of these health tips. Great! Let 'em check those off and get going on putting some of the others into practice -- they can easily become a habit if kids stick with them for 2 to 3 weeks. Here's the doctor-dads' checklist, straight from their book. It will help your kids make up their own to-do list for living a healthy, happier life.

Top Tips for Teens

• Realize that you control what goes into your body.
• Realize that it's never too late to start adopting healthy habits. You get a do-over.
• Walk