Health
Pack That Fat! Why Weight Loss Is Important
In Helen Fieldings’ cult novel Bridget Jones’s Diary, frustrated singleton Bridget Jones seems to wage an endless battle against the bulge, and if you will permit me to quote a longish paragraph, sums up very nicely what it is that most of us hate about being fat. Here it is: “I hate communal changing rooms. Everyone stares sneakily at each other’s bodies, but no one ever meets anyone’s eye. There are always girls who know that they look fantastic in everything and dance around beaming, swinging their hair and doing model poses in the mirror saying, ‘Does it make me look fat?’ to their obligatory obese friend, who looks like a water buffalo in everything.” Read Full Entry
Organic Food: Eat Healthy, Live Better
Organic food – it is a fad that has taken the world by storm? Or is there substance behind the organic feeding frenzy? “Plenty of people spout all kinds of theories about organic food without really knowing what it is about,” says consultant nutritionist Shari Matthews of Pittsburgh. So I might as well redress that imbalance. In very simple terms, organic food may be defined as food that is produced naturally, without the aid of chemical aids like preservatives and pesticides. There. Now that you know what it is all about, you can start eating it. Or can you? Read Full Entry
Green Tea: A Weight Loss Miracle Aid?
Okay, this is going to be one of those ‘did you know’ beginnings. Did you know that a lot of the tea that was dumped into Boston harbor during the Boston Tea Party was, in fact, green tea? This is because until the early decades of the 20th century, green tea was a far more popular import into the United States than black tea. And of late, the wheel has turned full circle as the popularity of green tea as a weight loss aid gains ground, making it the beverage of choice in large parts of the Western world, whereas earlier, its consumption was more widespread in the Far East.
In fact, in many Asian cultures, green tea has a proud tradition as a healing beverage. There is archaeological evidence to prove that green tea has been consumed in this part of the world for close to 5,000 years, and that India and China were the first countries to grow it. Traditional texts indicate that green tea has been medicinally used in countries like India, China, Japan and Thailand to help everything from healing wounds to regulating blood sugar and promoting digestion. Spot the green tea-weight loss link here? Happily, modern science has started to recognize these properties too, which has led to widespread research on green tea, adding to its popularity. Read Full Entry