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  • 10 Ways To Regain Weight After Weight Loss Surgery  By :
    As many weight loss surgery post-operative patients know, it is possible to regain weight after having weight loss surgery. If you aren't a weight loss surgery patient, the same applies to you too. A nutritious, active lifestyle is the key to losing weight AND maintaining your weight loss regardless of how you do it. Learn the Top 10 reasons how to do it. Follow the opposite of the Top 10, you can have weight loss success.
  • 15 Foods That Make You Fat  By : Jason Szova
    There is no doubt that overeating can lead to putting fat on your body, but there are some foods that are more likely to put those pounds on you than others. These foods are either high in calories, total fat, carbohydrates, sugar or sodium. Below are 15 of the most fattening foods.
  • 4 Holiday Tips To Beat The Bulge  By : Nick Irons
    The Holidays are coming.

    If you are like most people then the Holidays bring about a sense of wonder, an atmosphere of good will and....a huge plate of food followed by tons of Christmas cookies!

    More than 50 percent of adults gain weight during this magical time of year but you don't have to be one of them! In this issue I am going to bring you four tips that will help keep the pounds from finding their way to your waist.

    It's said that the average person gains betw...
  • 5 Easy Tips To Eat Less  By :
    Reducing your caloric intake can be a major challenge for most people. They envision it means a life of rice cakes and always suffering with a grumbling belly. But that doesn’t necessarily have to be true. You don’t need to turn your life upside down in order to start eating less. In fact, through employing these small adjustments to how you think about food, you might not even notice the reduction at all.

    1. Eat Slower

    Some people are ravenous eaters. When they see foo...
  • 5 Tips On How To Avoid The Holiday Weight Gain  By : Karen Sessions
    Life doesn't have to be so demanding. You can enjoy yourself and still keep your figure. Thanksgiving and Christmas doesn't have to have a negative impact. The trick is to keep a balance.
  • 6 Weight Gain Tips Without Getting Fat  By : Marc David
    After you read this short article, you will have leaned some quick tips to start gaining healthy weight. Here's 6 simple ways on how to gain weight without getting fat.
  • 7 Tips to Side Step Holiday Weight Gain  By : Cathy Brennan
    The holidays are notorious for gaining a few extra pounds, use the tips to manuever through without the excess baggage.
  • A Low Carb Dieter’s Guide to Chinese Food  By : Philip Nicosia
    Chinese food fans, take heart. It’s true that many of the popular Oriental dishes are heavy on carbs: sumptuous fried rice served with thick sauces, noodles brewed in a savory soup, sticky buns, and flavorful stews thickened by starch.
  • A Program To Help Gain Weight  By : Michael Perry
    So you are looking for something to help gain weight. You've thought it through, and you've come to the conclusion that this is a step you want to take. Now where do you go? Do you turn to those that say it's a matter of genetics, or those that live in the gym? Where do you go from here to help gain weight?

    They will tell you that it's all in the genetics; they will tell you that you don't have the drive or motivation to do what it takes. In an effort to help gain weight, ...
  • A Proper Diet & Good Health Habits Helps Keep the Weight Away  By :
    All of our focus these days is on Diet and unrealistic body image when we should stress the benefits of good health instead.
  • Alli Diet Drug Review: Advantages And Disadvantages  By :
    Is Alli diet pill the new Xenical?

    A diet pill is a woman's best friend, as some trying-hard dieters will contend. That's because with a diet pill, you don't have to starve yourself, sweat it out in the gym, look the other way in pastry shops or run laps up and down the building stairways during lunch break. A diet pill that burns away those unwanted fats or sheds your excess weight is a great help to any dieter-wannabe who can not stick to a diet and exercise regimen.

    ...
  • American Obesity  By : S-Guptha
    There are many of people who end up having weight problems. For these people the option to reduce their weight can be a problem. While the old fashioned way of weight loss can be accomplished, there is another method. This route is via surgery. The surgery that is used is called by many names including bariatric surgery. This surgery and others are used to combat American obesity.

    The various cases of American obesity provides us with an indication of the number of people ...
  • Are You In Love With Your Body?  By : David Ferrers
    If you love your body you should care for it by being sensible about the fuel you take on board. Avoid Mcdonalds and fries, but dark chocolate is OK is smallish doses.
  • Are You Struggling With Weight Loss Management?  By : Lana Hampton
    It doesn’t matter whether you are trying to lose five pounds or more than 50 pounds; all of the same simple laws of physics determine whether or not you will lose weight and how fast your weight loss will occur. While everyone is different, if everyone remembered these simple guidelines and put them into practice, then they would find that these guidelines would generally lead to weight loss without the aid of any special diet plans, books, or medications.

    Our weight is de...
  • Being Overweight Is A Learned Habit, Not A Choice  By :
    It is remarkable to find how many people eat out of boredom, sheer habit, or to the accompaniment of a newspaper, a book, or a heated business discussion. Many succumb to the habit of eating at a "minute" diner, fast food restaurant or lunch counter, gulping their food and running a "hoof and mouth" race with Father Time. (He always wins.)

    Others are trained from childhood to stuff themselves-"finish your plate" (An old relic of primitive days when food scarcities or the u...
  • Better And Improved Techniques To Reduce Weight  By : Ricky
    In this contemporary scenario and in the human chase no one desires to look terrible and unpleasant. Every one desires to be healthy and in good health.
  • Building Muscle while Losing Fat - Is It Really Possible?  By : Steven Godlewski
    Many female dieters’ avoid strenuous muscle building exercises because we know that muscles weigh more than fat, and we don’t want to ‘bulk up.’ Some dieters who don’t know this go forward with a great muscle building exercise program, only to drop it when they weigh and find that they weigh a couple of pounds more than they did when they started their diets!
  • Burn Up 900 Cals In 30 Minutes!  By : Greg Haehl
    A sauna is essentially a room - by comparison, sizes range from a medium-sized closet to large bedroom - that is lined with wood and has a series of tiered benches along one or more walls. Saunas utilize a specially designed heating unit that actually heats a set of natural stones, raising the temperature in the room to 150 degrees or more while maintaining a very low relative humidity - typically only about 10 to 20 percent. Water can be poured onto the hot rocks to raise th...
  • Calculating Your Body Mass Index; Is Your Health At Risk?  By :
    Physical health can be measured (with certain exceptions) through the appropriateness of a person's weight to his height; where the body weight refers to the measure of one's heaviness and the height is the measure of his tallness. For instance, a woman measuring 5 ft high (1.52 m), with a medium body frame should weigh between 103 lbs to 115 lbs (46.72 kg to 52.16 kg) to be considered healthy.

    Another example: a man standing 5 ft 8 in (1.72 m) tall, with a large body fram...
  • Calorie Shifting Weight Loss - Calorie Shifting Meal Plan  By : Harris. Jason
    Calorie shifting weight loss diet plan is a unique eating to lose weight method. By using this method, you can lose weight naturally by controlling your diets. During the process, you will have to learn different calories needed to lose weight. You can find out more about this special eating to lose weight diet plan here.
  • Carbohydrates Can Make You Fat In One Of 3 Ways  By :
    Get the facts straight on carbohydrates. Find out once and for all what is a myth and what is the truth when it comes to carbohydrates and weight gain.
  • Cutting Calories: How Much How Often  By :
    Talks about how to cut calories for proper fat loss
  • Detoxification: A Requirement For Weight Loss And Better Health  By : Brandon H. Masters
    Whether you think about it or not, your body is extremely busy every day, there are thousands of processes at work for everything you do in your average day’s activities. For that reason, your body needs a tune up, just as your car would! You should regularly detoxify your body and clean your entire internal network.

    If you have not heard about detoxification before, it is a process that makes sure all the systems in your body are in good working condition. A successfu...
  • Digesting The Often Unpalatable History Of Dieting  By : Malcolm
    Modern dieting fashions often follow ideas that have been tried before. Dieters need to place what they are doing within a detailed history of diets and to understand that any diet cannot be the whole story of weight-control because only fundamental behavior change can ensure long-term weight-loss success.
  • Do I Really Have Bulimia?  By : Heather Colman
    Bulimia is term used commonly for an eating disorder called Bulimia nervosa. It is a psychological condition in which a person engages in recurrent binge eating followed by intentionally doing one or more of the following in order to compensate for the intake of the food and prevent weight gain:

    * vomiting

    * inappropriate use of laxatives, enemas, diuretics or other medication

    * excessive exercising

    * fasting

    The following six criteria should be met for a perso...
  • Do You Know How Abdominal Fat Burners Work?  By :
    Although the term abdominal fat burners is used in many different types of advertisements and weight loss information from marketers and manufacturers, there is really no way for a fat burner or weight loss supplement to be able to target only one area of the body. Abdominal fat burners will work on all the fat in the body, although for many people the most obvious fat deposits may be across the abdominal area, which may lead the dieter to believe that just the fat in this ar...
  • Does Porridge Make You Fat?  By : Paul Mort
    For years now, many weight loss experts, dietitians, doctors and slimming consultants alike have been telling us how Porridge Oats or easily the best option for our breakfast. Granted most of us now know that breakfast is the most important meal of the day, followed closely by our choice of post-workout nutrition, but why?
  • Don't Gain Weight This Winter  By : Al Short
    You may think that this is the opposite way of thinking, but you can actually double your number of meals per day and yet achieve successful weight loss.
  • Easy Ways To Naturally Boost Your Metabolism  By : Daniel da Silva
    Boosting your metabolism is probably the easiest and safest way to lose weight naturally. Find out how you can boost your metabolism naturally so your body can start burning calories faster than ever.
  • Eat More Meals!  By : Ryan Ginster
    It may not make much sense, but it’s better to eat more, smaller meals throughout the day than three big meals. However someone who eats more often will lose or keep weight off because they are not depriving themselves of food when they are hungry and actually don’t become hungry often. This is great for losing and keeping weight off. If you don’t get hungry, you probably won’t go looking for a quick snack and eat something that will put weight on you.

    By eating more meals...
  • Eliminating Constipation And Dehydration To Eliminate Weight Retention  By : Cassandra Cox
    Does your practitioner ever stop to ask you how are your bowels moving? What about your nutritionist? Your personal trainer? Chances are, unless you are suffering from a serious bout of irregularity or IBS, no one has brought it up yet, have they? It’s interesting, because the more you think about what you eat, the more you should be concerned about what is making its way out!

    The old saying goes, “You are what you eat.” Generally speaking, our meals travel through our di...
  • Gain Weight Through Muscle  By :
    People that want to gain weight have their own problems.Discover what you need to do to pack on some muscle.
  • Gastric Bypass Surgery - Is Surgery The Answer?  By : Susan Fielding
    You've been through endless diet regimes, exercised regularly, and sometimes even gone overboard in the hope of losing weight…and you are still 100 pounds overweight! Maybe it's time to consider Gastric Bypass Surgery, which is a surgery that limits the amount of food you can take in.

    Gastric bypass surgery is a surgical procedure to treat extreme obesity, caused by severe accumulation of excess weight as fatty tissue, which causes other health problems too. As part of the...
  • Green Tea’s Weight Loss Magic – It’s Not the Caffeine  By : Jon M. Stout
    In recent years there has been a significant amount of attention given to green tea and its health benefits. Green tea has been shown to prevent cancer, heart disease, and reduce the signs of aging. And, more recently, studies have shown that it can be helpful in weight loss.
  • Healthy Choices Equal Healthy Weight Management  By : Brenda Watson
    When it comes to healthy weight management, a little common sense goes a long way. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to tell us that eating fast food every day of the week is not conducive to our health, nor does it add up that a diet void of carbohydrates might possibly contain the essential nutrients that only fiber-rich whole grains, fruits and vegetables can provide. And no matter how you look at it, fatty meats and full-fat dairy products are simply not the way to a sli...
  • Healthy Relationship: Is It Possible To Have A Normal Relationship With Food?  By : Caroline Cederquist, M.D.
    Do you sometimes feel like food is the enemy? If you’re overweight, the odds are high that you view food with deep suspicion. But even if you’re not overweight, you might have the same dim view. Many normal weighted people do.

    Defining food as the enemy can only lead to unhappiness and problems, according to obesity experts. When you think about it, it’s to your advantage to put a friendly face on food because you can’t get away from it. You need food to live. Food is ener...
  • High Fiber Foods For Safe Weight Management  By : Brandon H. Masters
    Even if you don’t have an overweight problem, you need to manage your weight on a daily basis lest it gets out of control. And, the best and safest way to do it is to introduce high fiber foods in your daily diet. If you do have a weight problem, you must not look for short cuts or quick-fix remedies, and avoid even thinking of things like gastric bypass, or tummy tuck surgery which can lead to sepsis or scarring

    According to 2006 statistics, nearly 200,000 bariatric proce...
  • How Do I Measure My Body Fat?  By : Jonathan Perez
    There are many methods used today in an attempt to determine if you are burning body fat from your weight loss program. When looking to lose weight everyone wants to see "how much" have they lost.
  • How To Boost Your Metabolism With Diet, Exercise And Supplements  By : Ryan Cote
    In the days of our youth, our metabolism is naturally high but as the years add on that is simply not the case. Gone are the days when you could eat anything you desired and yet never gain a pound. Yes, those were the good old days, but they have passed us by. Hold on, do not lose hope yet. We all live in the times when everyone is seeking an easy and quick way out of just about everything. We wish we could locate the magic pill that will transform our lives and the fact of t...
  • How To Calculate Your BMR  By : Rebecca Welch
    One of the first steps to an effective weight loss plan is knowing how to calculate your BMR. You may be asking, "What the heck is BMR and what does it have to do with weight loss anyway?" BMR stands for Basal Metabolic Rate. Your basal metabolic rate, or BMR, is the minimum number of calories per day a body requires just to maintain normal body functions not including daily activity. This is the number of calories needed to maintain your current weight if you did nothing but...
  • How To Eat To Gain Mass  By : Graeme Muir
    One major reason that people do not gain muscle mass in because of an insufficient diet. Weight training only provides a stimulus for your muscles to start growing. It is when you go home and recover after the exercise that you start to add on muscle.

    For your muscles to grow you need to eat plenty of the correct types of food. Your diet provides the raw materials for your muscles to grow and if it is lacking then your muscles will stay the same size and you will see no re...
  • How to Enjoy Your Favorite Food without Gaining Extra Pounds  By : Hope Elpis
    Adhere to the following tips and you will lose extra pounds for good.
  • How To Gain Weight And Increase Muscle Mass  By : M. Perry
    If you want to increase muscle mass and gain weight, remember that in order to effectively bulk up, you will need to be persistent in your efforts. Increasing your caloric intake is an important part of gaining weight and building new muscle tissue. When you feed your body more food than it can burn, you gain weight. Weight training is also an important part of gaining weight and increasing your muscle mass. Weight training stimulates the muscles and promotes growth. The comb...
  • How to maintain healthy weight  By : Hope Elpis
    Clear tips on how to maintain your healthy weight.
  • How To Maintain Your Weight After Losing It  By : Subodh Gupta
    You lost your weight, couple of pounds after sweating and struggling on a treadmill every day. You sacrificed so much, your family time, the tasty dinners in restaurant, and the pints of larger in a pub. No doubt, you should be proud of yourself.

    Normally it happens with most of people that after initial weight loss success we get back to our old habits. So you skip your gym, you make couple of phone calls to your friends to go outing, you stuff your fridge with ready meal...
  • How To Never Feel Hungry - Ever Again...  By : George Black
    First of all, you need to shift your mindset. Forget about "dieting for a week or a month so I can look good for summer". Instead, you need to adopt a LIFESTYLE CHANGE and stick to good nutrition habits...

    Dieting, at least the way it's perceived by most people, is horrible. You feel hungry, weak and deprived. How long will you be able to stay on a program that makes you feel like that? Not long.

    Here are some tips so that YOU WILL NEVER FEEL HUNGRY FOR THE REST OF YOUR...
  • How To Not Lose Weight  By : Eva Moffat
    You can sabotage you own efforts to lose weight by missing meals and not drinking enough water. Also if you enjoy a plate of pie and chips followed by apple pie and custard, that will help too. Beer is a no no if you want to lose weight. But if you don't want to lose weight, enjoy yourself.
  • Hypnosis For Effortless Weight Loss  By : Alan B. Densky, CH
    Researchers have provided positive evidence that all diets work. But medical research has also proven that there is a secret to making those diets work consistently. In this article we will reveal the secrets of fast, permanent weight loss.
  • Imagine Your Weight Away . . . .  By : Rena Greenberg
    Napoleon once said, “Imagination rules the world.” The subconscious mind does not know the difference between what’s real and what’s imagined. When you visualize yourself stuck in traffic, late for an appointment and being reprimanded by your boss—your muscles automatically begin to clench up, your blood vessels dilate, and you begin to sweat. Your body responds to this imagined threat as if it were actually happening. By the same token, when you imagine yourself at your niec...
  • Increasing Your Fiber Intake May Help You Eliminate Calories  By : Brenda Watson
    The number of Americans who are overweight or obese is growing at an alarming rate. According to the World Health Organization, more than 300 million obese people are at high risk for developing diabetes, heart problems, high blood pressure, stroke and even cancer.

    To counterbalance the often misleading or false information provided by many of today’s more popular diet plans, fiber—the indigestible parts of fruits, seeds, vegetables, whole grains and other edible pla...
  • Is Being Fat Your Fault?  By : Jude Wright
    Why is it that some people can eat whatever they want, never exercise and still look slim and trim? Then, there's the rest of us who have to watch every crumb we put in our mouths, have to exercise daily and still never reach the weight we want? It's not fair, is it?

    Most people who struggle with their weight have their ancestors to blame. Their ancestors are the ones who passed on their "fat" genes. (Thanks, Grandma!) They can lose weight but they have to work harder at i...
  • Is There A Fast Way To Lose Weight Without Doing A Surgery  By :
    Losing weight is a very complex subject. First of all, everyone’s metabolism is different, so all of us gain and lose weight at different speeds; this means it is impossible to decide that what worked for someone else must work for you as well. Losing weight without surgery needs to be planned in a personal way for every individual, consult specialists for exercises and diets that will best suit your body.

    One of the best ways of assessing how long it will take you to lo...
  • Keep Trim During The Holidays With Seaweed Body Wraps  By :
    The holidays are quickly approaching and keeping your body lean to ensure you fit in your festive attire, maybe a challenge for some of us. One way to help keep you wearing your hot dress comfortably is with a seaweed body wrap. Seaweed body wraps reduce inches by shrinking fat cells in addition to tightening and toning the skin making you appear leaner. Seaweed wraps are ideal for this time of the year to help us look lean while we celebrate.

    A seaweed wrap has been used ...
  • Learn The Fundamentals Of Weight Management  By : Dan Dailey
    Proper weight management is about much more than simply focusing on a single number, your weight. There are other, very important, objective measurements to add to your intellectual toolkit - BMI, waist circumference, body fat percentage, muscle-to-fat ratio and others - in order to achieve a physical result.

    That physical result, too, should be more than just reducing a number. Your fundamental goals are to look attractive and optimize your health. Everything else is a me...
  • Learning The Glycemic Index Saved My Life  By : Lorraine Grula
    I looked drunk. Smashed. I couldn't even walk a straight line. I stumbled down the hallway, crashing into the walls. I felt dizzy, about to pass out. Finally, I collapsed onto the bed and didn't wake for 18 hours.

    Was this the result of downing an entire bottle of whiskey? Nope. I hadn't even had one beer. This drunken state was from eating instant mashed potatoes. Of course at the time, I didn't have a clue. I thought I was dying.

    I missed work at least twice a month. ...
  • Losing Weight with the Lemonade Diet  By : Chuck Bluestein
    Find out the benefits of the lemonade fast, like losing weight, but also the bad things to avoid that are unhealthy. Also learn about a substance that Americans consume that have no calories but makes people fat. This means that this weight is not affected by how many calories you consume and how many you burn.
  • Michael Thurmond Six Week Body Makeover  By : Benny Carlson
    The question most commercials often ask these days is whether people are in the best shape of their lives, and many people who understand what I am talking about will surely recognize the famous line that goes thus: " I am now over forty years old and I am physically fit and very glad to be in the best shape of my life."

    Personally, I don't rate the advert because I find them very boring, though the message seems to make some sense with regards to fitness because every one...
  • More Evidence that Green Tea Blocks Fat Absorption  By : Jon M. Stout
    In recent years, green tea has gained a lot of attention for its health benefits. Many studies have been conducted that have shown various ways that green tea helps keep you healthy. Among these findings include evidence that green tea helps lower cholesterol, reduces your risk of heart disease and
  • Obesity And A Poor Diet Can Be Harmful In More Ways Than One  By : David Maillie
    Obesity causes many physical and emotional ailments that range from cardiovascular to skeletal and even psychological in nature. It is said that an obese persons body becomes a prison. Obesity for the most part can be treated and here's how.
  • Overcoming Obesity With Superfoods  By : Brandon H. Masters
    What do you know about superfoods? They have been all over the media and health journals as foods that are going to help keep your body performing at the top of its game. These foods are said to be your allies in a battle against obesity and for healthy cholesterol levels as well as removing toxins from your body.

    If you are one of the millions who are battling obesity, you need to learn about superfoods. Don’t feel alone in this battle, the American Obesity Association sa...
  • Psychotherapy As Bulimia Treatment  By : Elizabeth Gilley
    In a world obsessed with thinness, it is very hard not to succumb to the temptations of easy weight loss even if these methods are not healthy at all. Bulimia is the most common unhealthy method of weight loss. Unfortunately, people, especially women, are easily drawn to this because they are conditioned to be attractive - thin is beautiful. Images of rail-thin models and actors emblazoned on billboards, television, and runway shows encourage the notion of thinness as beauty....
  • Restraunts And Alcohol.  By : Ryan Ginster
    When someone thinks of losing weight, two things they think are goodbye to eating at restaurants and having alcohol. Well that doesn’t have to be the case. It is a matter of learning how those two things won’t hurt your weight loss. Just because it isn’t made at home doesn’t mean it is filled with preservatives that will turn directly to fat when you eat there. And having alcohol, either at a restaurant or a party, doesn’t have to be a weight gainer either.

    It has to do wi...
  • Secret Ways To Lose Holiday Fat  By : Jimmy Smith
    Fitness expert Jimmy Smith reveals 5 tips to help anyone lose the holiday weight quickly and easily. Jimmy delivers secret information amd methods that had only been seen in his best selling 29 Days To Faster Fat Loss program.
  • Sensible Weight Management For The Groom  By : Michael Brito -
    Congratulations Gents! Pretty soon, you’ll be caught up in planning for your wedding, for the honeymoon, and for a life together. Chances are if you are like the typical guy your fiancé will take care of the bulk of the arrangements, but that won’t leave you without at least some additional stress. Stressors that can bring you much worry, aggravation, and even weight gain if you are not careful. Speaking of weight, are you satisfied with how you look right now? Or, could you ...
  • Seven Snacks That Taste Great and Won’t Cause You to Pack on the Pounds!  By : Mike Ramsey
    Failure to plan ahead for hunger is a leading reason why so many people fail at dieting. When you’re hungry and you don’t have anything healthy on hand to eat, it is just too easy to settle for something unhealthy such as candy or chips or cookies. Here are seven simple, healthy, low-calorie snacks that also taste great. Keep these around and keep that weight melting off!
  • Should You Weigh Yourself Everyday?  By : Dan Curtis, M.D.
    The scale. In some ways it’s the toughest piece of equipment at the gym. You may be able to face the leg press machine, but can you face the scale?
  • Simple Tips To Help You Lose And Maintain Your Weight  By :
    Losing weight is not just about cutting calories and exercising like crazy. Losing weight requires a permanent lifestyle change. It is not realistic to think that while you are dieting, you eat exactly what you should and exercise 5 days a week, then after reaching your goal completely turn your back on what got you to your goal in the first place.

    Establishing a healthy view on your lifestyle and making permanent changes will set you up for success for a lifetime!

    Look...
  • Slimming : Weight Loss And Hypnosis  By : Richard MacKenzie
    Is last year’s wardrobe feeling a little tight? Do you feel that you may have over done it through the Easter holidays and now need to get rid of that tummy for summer? Do you want to be full of confidence and able to wear the things that you want to wear? Well if so then read on as you are about to get some advice that will really change your life and your waistline forever.

    Hypnosis is one of the best undisputed ways to lose weight and to make sure that the pounds stay ...
  • Staying Slim For Spring  By :
    Discover how you can stay slim and enjoy the things you love about spring with this balanced and sensible point of view.
  • Teenage Obesity  By : Mary Rose Antonio
    There is pharmaceutical relief for teenage obesity. Though the medical community is firm in its message that lifestyle changes have to be implemented to effectively deal with childhood obesity, there are medications which can be prescribed for overweight teenagers.

    As with other lifestyle-related illnesses, obesity is a chronic condition that can require long-term treatment. Once beginning such a program, there is a slight possibility that an obese person might need to tak...
  • The American Fatness Epidemic; the Reasons and Solutions to the problem.  By : Ted Crawford
    Dr. Crawford explains the causes and solutions to the American Fatness Epidemic including the root of the problem which has to do with our genetics and physiology which has not evolved from that of our hunter gatherer ancestors and other issues involved such as portion sizes, exercise, and making lifestyle choices to improve the problem.
  • The Confusion About Weightlifting, Bodybuilding, And Lifting Weights  By : Donovan Baldwin
    People often use the words "bodybuilding", "weightlifting", and "lifting weights" interchangeably, but they are not all the same thing. When planning fitness or weight loss programs, people often ignore weight training, one of the most effective exercise methods, due in part to this confusion.
  • The Glycemic Index is Your Key to Weight Control  By : Simon Evans
    The glycemic index is a measure of how fast certain foods burn in your body and how fast they raise your blood sugar. Paying attention to the glycemic index of foods will help you get control and keep control of your weight and will help you reduce the cravings for the kinds of foods that are making you overweight in the first place.
  • The Physical Risks Of Being Overweight  By : Zinn Jeremiah
    The potential physical problems that extra weight can cause.
  • The Prevalence Of Child Obesity  By : Elizabeth Radisson
    Child obesity has quickly become a major problem in America, the degree to which may not even be fully realized at this point. To consider all the aspects of obesity, a systems approach is necessary in identifying all factors involved. From this perspective, a more encompassing view of the prevalence of child obesity can be observed.

    Statistics show that the prevalence of child obesity has dramatically increased in America with a rate that is triple of that 30 years ago. T...
  • The Secret to Weight Loss!  By : Dan Hammer
    This article will empower you with information on the secret to weight loss. It is a secret that has the power to absolutely change your life, especially once you know how apply both sides of the equation.
  • The Single-Most Important Factor In Losing (Or Gaining) Weight  By :
    Here is the bottom line on every weight loss program or diet scheme that has ever been devised. This is the single-all encompassing concept that actually determines whether you will lose weight, gain weight or stay the same, and all you need to understand it is a little elementary school math.

    I'll first explain the concept in more detail, and then give you an example of how it actually works.
    First of all, every day our bodies use up a certain number of calories just to ...
  • Tips For Fast Weight Gain And Building Muscle  By : Michael Perry
    Some people find it very difficult to gain weight due to a fast metabolism and genetics.

    For those of us who have extreme difficulty gaining weight, the search for the best diet and exercise to gain weight and add muscle seems endless. The search for a magical product that will give you instant results can lead to frustration and hopelessness.

    If it were easy to gain weight and build muscle, everyone would have it. Time and effort are necessary if you want to change you...
  • Tips For Not Gaining Weight On Thanksgiving Or Christmas  By :
    On feast days, it’s especially important not to skip a healthy breakfast. We tend to over eat and choose more fattening and sugary foods when we’ve gone too long without eating. A healthy breakfast might include two or more of a whole grain cereal or oatmeal, eggs, vegetables, yogurt or milk, and fruit. Try to eat healthy food every four hours throughout the holidays, but eat small meals. Make sure you drink a lot of water, particularly on feast days.

    Often staying lean du...
  • Tips on How To Gain Weight Quickly  By :
    Tips on how to gain weight quickly are priceless to skinny people who struggle to put on some extra pounds. It is even better to understand the fundamentals behind healthy weight gain. This is where you can learn more on how to gain weight quickly and healthily.
  • Tips: Losing Weight For Wedding  By : Rafi Michael
    Your wedding day is doubtless the most important day of your life, the day that you will always look back on in memories and in photo’s and so its no surprise that most brides knock the gym and the diets in the months leading up to the day.

    For Destination Brides, its no unlike, however add to the pressures of the giant Wedding Dress Debut, the truth that you’ll possibly be spending every day in a swimming suit before and after your wedding, it wouldn’t hurt to take up som...
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