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Weight Loss – Think now! One step at a time

Monday, October 6th, 2008

Discipline is the the dreaded word for weight loss seekers! They view the whole timeline of weight loss prescribed by experts as something unachievable. They look at the sculpted bodies of surfers & athletes as something which God created themselves! The weight loss diets are inhumane! So where are we? Are we ever going to [...]

How does excess body fat impact health?

Monday, October 6th, 2008

Recently the World Health Organization (WHO) revealed that obesity has become one of the major diseases that has been taking lives. Globally there are more than 1 billion overweight adults, at least 300 million of them obese. Obesity is a complex condition, with serious social and psychological dimensions, affecting virtually all ages and socioeconomic groups. [...]

Weight Loss Simplified

Saturday, October 4th, 2008

Oprah promoting yummie tummie tummy control T-shirt.

Thursday, October 2nd, 2008

Recently Oprah recently went gaga over a T-shirt with tummy control called a Yummie Tummie. This shirt feels like a regular T-shirt at the top and the bottom, but the middle is a firming microfiber fabric that flattens tummy . This T- shirt is gaining its popularity within celebrity circuit. But hiding your fat is [...]

Food craving – An insight

Tuesday, September 30th, 2008

Whenever we see chocolates, pizzas, icecream … We exclaim “That’s what i was looking for -Oh i am so hungry”. But , is that really so? Are we really hungry? Or our mind is sending the wrong signals? According to Debra Zellner, Ph.D., a professor of psychology at Montclair State University in New Jersey, your [...]

Mediterranean Diet – An inside look!

Saturday, September 27th, 2008

What is the Mediterranean diet? The traditional Mediterranean diet refers to the dietary patterns typical in the early 1960′s of some Mediterranean regions, including Crete and other parts of Greece and Southern Italy. The reason these dietary patterns are singled out are because the adult life expectancy of these areas were among the highest in [...]

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