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New Year’s Weight Loss Resolution
Can you believe that in a few more days we will be in year 2009? Time goes by so fast, doesn’t it? Last year I told myself that I wanted to lose 15 lbs. I haven’t even started yet and now the year 2008 almost come to an end. Instead of loosing weight I’m gaining 5 lbs arggghhh!!.
Everyday we hear the news about how bad the economy will be in the coming year. We don’t know what the year 2009 will be like. One thing we have to understand is that worry won’t change anything one bit. Let’s take a positive thing out of the negative. Be an optimist and believe that everything will be better. Despite the economic crisis, this is actually the best time to lose weight. Cut all the unnecessary spending, cut eating out and cook at home more. Read More
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 More
Diet Plans: Which Is The One For You?
Whenever I think diets, I can’t help thinking of Bridget Jones (I know I’ve mentioned her before), Helen Fielding’s scatterbrained singleton heroine who obsessively counts calories and is yet constantly unable to reach her dreamed of weight loss goal. At the end of Bridget Jones’s Diary, we learn that Bridget has consumed, in a single year, 11,090,265 calories. That is by her own admission, and Bridget’s mathematical skills may not be the strongest, but even so, she has consumed close to 30,000 calories per day, whereas the recommended daily count for a woman her age (early 30s) would be 1,940. As for her alcohol consumption, the count is a staggering 3,836 units per year, which means more than 10 units per day. Is it any wonder she leads a dysfunctional life? Read More
Natural Weight Loss: Will It Work For You?
For Terence Flanagan of Grand Rapids, Michigan, losing weight was not a matter of choice, but a medical necessity. At 23 and a full six feet, he was touching 400 lbs, and doctors were warning of severe consequences if he didn’t get his weight under control. “Back in 2003, I was an obese wreck,” says Terence. “I was embarrassed to go out and meet people, and my job as an estate agent meant that I was constantly having to do that. It got to a point where I seriously wanted to give it up and just hide in a dark corner.” Read More
Weight Loss Diet Pills: The Debate For And Against
Marisa Scott Prentice is a 31-year-old kindergarten teacher in Orlando, Florida. Two years ago, and at 5’5”, she was tilting the scales at 250 lbs. “It was excruciating, and going to school was a nightmare. Children can be unwittingly cruel about people they perceive as being out of the ordinary, and questions about how fat I was were regulation,” she says. More importantly, her physician warned her about potentially fatal consequences if she didn’t do something about her weight, soon. In desperation, Marisa turned to weight loss diet pills, which she saw as the quickest route to a slimmer her. What followed was “catastrophic”, in her words. Read More
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 More
How does obesity link to diabetes?
In September 2006, a journal called Critical Care published the results of a study on diabetes and obesity. The study revealed that diabetes – more than obesity on its own – was responsible for the increased risk of death among the obese. To make that slightly less convoluted, if you have diabetes, you increase your chances of developing a critical illness and/or dying early; merely being obese does not make you vulnerable. Yes, obese individuals do experience certain physical problems, but these are as likely to afflict the non-obese, is what the study seeks to establish.
The researchers, from the University of Kentucky’s Chandler Hospital and Emory University School of Medicine, reviewed the health of a 15,000-strong sample group, the members of which had originally been studied 20 years ago. They looked for the presence of diabetes (Type 1 and Type 2), analyzed the body mass indices and reviewed the members’ histories of critical illness (such as organ failure) and mortality. Read More