Being overweight is not just an appearance and self-esteem issue. Many studies have shown that being overweight or obese increases your risk of certain diseases such as heart attack, stroke and diabetes.
For all these reasons and more, many people are turning to diet aids, and diet meal plans, in order to help them lose weight.
Weight Watchers has been around for many years, and has quite a few success stories to prove that it works for many people who stick to the plan, particularly women. In...
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Getting professional advice before starting any diet is crucial to successful weight loss. There are many reasons why a person may become overweight that have nothing to do with a “lack of willpower” or overeating, which need to be investigated before you diet.
Firstly, they may gain weight due to hormonal reasons, for example, a slow thyroid. The thyroid secretes several hormones; two key ones are thyroxine (T4) and triiodothyronine (T3). They both help regulate the rate...
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Weight loss drugs have become a popular diet aid in the past 50 years, as more and more women, and even men, try to do something about being overweight. Over six out of ten Americans is now overweight, and statistics suggest that that figure is actually increasing, not decreasing, despite all of the diet programs and options available today.
Many people desperate to lose weight will in some cases decide to resort to the drastic bariatric surgery, commonly referred to as stomach stapling. Still...
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Weight loss produces have become a popular diet aid in the past few decades, as more and more women, and even men, try to do something about being overweight or obese.
One six in ten Americans is now overweight, and that trend is being reflected all over the globe. Statistics also suggest that that figure is actually increasing every year, not decreasing, despite all of the diet programs and options available on the market.
Many people desperate to lose weight will in some cases decide to...
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We hear the word diet almost every day, but what actually happens in the body when we start to diet with the goal of trying to lose weight?
Everything you eat is used by the body to fuel all of its essential functions, such as breathing, digestion and movement. The way that the body burns the calories in your diet is referred to as metabolism.
The way that the body burns calories each day performing all of its basic functions, without exercise, is known as resting metabolism. Experts calculate...
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Many of us doom our diets before we ever even start them. We long to lose weight and look great, but can make a huge mistake on our diets that ends up making us miserable.
One of the worst ways things we can do on a diet is skip meals in the mistaken belief that this is the best way to restrict our calories and see the weight come off.
In fact, this could not be further from the truth. The key is to take your daily calorie allowance you have planned for your diet, and space it out during the...
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Beware of Portion Distortion on a Diet
How large is a portion?
A lot of us think we are reading the food labels correctly, or eating right in a healthy way, but there are a couple of things to keep in mind.
First of all, how many servings are actually in the box/can/bottle? We all look at the number of calories on the label, but how often do we look at the serving size, or servings per package?
For instance, small pizza about the diameter of the size of your hand may look as though it is a...
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There are many diet plans on the market, and if the hype about some of these diets is to be believed, they promise rapid weight loss, often without any exercise or calorie counting according to their ads. Some even promise to help you lose 30 pounds in 30 days.
These diets, commonly referred to as crash diets, may work in the short term, but have long-term negative effects. Many crash diets are based on skipping meals or living on cabbage soup or their special juice or other type of food...
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Being overweight is not just an appearance and self-esteem issue. Many studies have shown that being overweight or obese increases your risk of certain diseases such as heart attack, stroke and diabetes.
We have discovered in recent years that fat in the body does not just sit there looking ugly. It actually releases several chemicals in the body which cause inflammation, and releases hormones that actually make it harder for you to lose weight, such as cortisol.
Inflammation is a key component...
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