Archive for January, 2009

Best Weight Loss Diet?

What is the best weight loss diet? Nutritionists advise that we should lose weight slowly so a fast weight loss or fad diet is not the best weight loss method. Yet every year new diets appear online that claim to  produce fast fat loss. Why? Because that is what we want and what we search [...]

Emotional Eating

Do you turn to food for reasons other than hunger? Are you obsessed with thoughts of food – whether you plan to eat it or restrict it?

Do you regularly try diets and fail – leading to guilt and further over eating? Do you think about or attempt to purge excess food by throwing up or [...]

Greenlane Diet

Greenlane Hospital is a specialist heart surgery hospital in Auckland, New Zealand. The Greenlane diet has travelled around the world by word of mouth. Its origins are as a quick weight loss diet for very obese subjects needing urgent heart surgery. Well that is the story and it rings true.

Morbidly obese people are at much [...]

How to Keep Hunger Away

Have you heard of Leptin? Leptin is one of the hormones responsible for increased hunger. It also interacts with other hormones, such as ghrelin and CCK, which have an effect on your appetite. Serum leptin is strongly linked to fat mass. The fatter you are, the higher your leptin levels.

The link is even stronger to [...]

At Home Workouts

If you want to get into some exercise to lose weight you might consider using home exercise DVDs. I have 4 of the Dummies DVDs which I find absolutely perfect for exercising at home. Here are the ones that I have tried and liked. These are basic home exercises for weight loss and health, [...]

Spot Fat Reduction

Can You Reduce Fat On Parts of Your Body?

Are you unhappy with your shape? Are you trying to lose fat from your tummy or perhaps its love handles that need to be zapped or its hip fat reduction you are after? In other words is spot fat reduction of whatever body part you dislike what [...]