Archive for October, 2008
Worried About Weight Gain After Delivery? Change Your Lifestyle To Regain Your Original Body Shape!
Have you put on extra pounds after giving birth? Like most mothers of newborns, weight control is a major concern, as there is no quick fix to regain one’s original body shape.
However, if you consider that it takes nine months to get to full-term size; it makes sense that getting back your [...]
The Truth Behind 10 Diet Myths
True or false: You’ll get fat if you eat at night, high fructose corn syrup makes you gain weight, and caffeine is bad for you.
Those are all diet myths that got busted in Chicago at the American Dietetic Association’s annual meeting.
Here are 10 diet myths:
Myth: Eating at night makes you fat.
Reality: Calories count, whenever you [...]
Best Food Choices For Summer To Get In Shape!
Do you want to look better in swim suit this summer? Are you concerned with your body shape? You don’t have to starve yourself or reduce your food intake to look in better shape.
All that you need to do is to make healthy food choices that can help you to lose unwanted [...]
Experimental Diet Pill May Double Weight Loss
Danish researchers said people taking NeuroSearch A/S’s obesity pill tesofensine lost twice as much weight as men and women using approved weight loss drugs.
Obesity, which raises the risk of diseases like type 2 diabetes and heart problems, is increasingly a problem as more people adopt a Western lifestyle.
The World Health Organization classifies around 400 million [...]
6 Fabulous Tips To Stick To Your Diet
The most important aspect of maintaining a healthy diet is your ability to stick to it, rather than the type of diet you choose. Before starting the diet, decide whether you think you can stick to the diet or not.
If you focus on this particular aspect, it will be easier for you to [...]
Low-Carb Diets Alter Glucose Formation By The Liver
A new study shows that a low-carbohydrate diet changes hepatic energy metabolism.
When carbohydrates are restricted, the liver relies more on substances like lactate and amino acids to form glucose, instead of glycerol.
Over the past 30 years, the U.S. population has reduced its fat intake, and increased its consumption of carbohydrates.
During the same time period, obesity [...]
Speedy Eaters Seen Likelier To Get Fat
According to Japanese researchers, people who eat quickly until full are three times more likely to be overweight, a problem exacerbated by the availability of fast food and the decline of orderly dining habits.
The findings highlight how eating styles, and not just what or how much is eaten, can contribute to an obesity epidemic fueled [...]
Are Detox Diets Healthier?
Some high-profile celebrities are unabashedly hitting the bottle.
No, not hitting the bottle as in they need to check into detox — hitting the bottle as in it’s their way of detoxing.
They are juice fasting to cleanse their insides, which presumably improves their outsides by helping them lose weight.
The latest juice-cleanse delivery diets — such as [...]
Tasty Diet-Friendly Foods To Lose Weight
Do you feel that your favorite foods are forbidden in your weight loss diet plan? While this is often true, there are many low-calorie foods that provide good nutrition and also taste great.
Maintaining a weight-loss diet doesn’t mean that you have to stay away from all your favorite foods; rather try [...]
Periods Of Excessive And Rapid Weight Loss May Be Associated With Internal Hernia After Bariatric Surgery
For the first time, surgeons have linked internal hernia with excessive and rapid weight loss after undergoing minimally invasive surgical treatment of morbid obesity.
Internal hernia is a defect in the abdominal cavity that allows abdominal structures, such as the intestines, to move out of their natural position.
However, the condition can be corrected surgically before it [...]