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  • Obesity Paradox: Excess Body Fat Helps in Heart Failure Recovery
    We have all known for a fact, and for some time now that obesity is one of the risk factors for developing heart disease and heart failure. We have also in the last few decades been very upbeat, to say the least, in encouraging weight loss.
  • Daily Physical Activities Can Add Up To Weight Loss
    Daily physical activities can results to weight loss. This is according to a study published in the Journal of The Royal Society for Promotion of Health. The study whose purpose was to compare effects of different patterns of exercises on body weight involved Singaporean women in an eight week exercise program.
  • Which Diet Is The Fairest Of Them All
    The question of which weight loss diet is the best reminds one of an old children's bedtime story.
  • Abdominal Weight Loss. . . Losing Fat From Your Middle
    As an exercise guru once stated, "Everyone's got Ab's you jus' need to show em". From the frantic efforts in gyms and obsessions with the so elusive six pack, it seems many never quite got what he meant.
  • What Is A Smart Carb?
    With the common reference to "Smart Carbs" one would be forgiven to think that a smart carb has something to do with the I.Q of a potato. Is it not true that if one carbohydrate can make you thinner and another fatter, then one of them must be dumb? And if not, then what exactly is a smart carb?
  • A New Weight Loss Science
    For a long time physiology has been the lead science in combating obesity. To achieve weight loss, diets like Low Carb Diets, Glycemic Index Diet and even Very Low Calories Diets (VLCD) are designed to primarily effect physiological results.
  • Weight Loss Is Nuts?
    Steve Vaught, a classic candidate for weight loss surgery, thinks that undergoing a "dangerous surgery that cost about the same as a luxury car" is "nuts". He further calls it "dangerous" and mentions it in the same breath as "miracle weight loss drugs or fad diets that never seem to have lasting results.
  • Drama Over Atkins Weight Loss Plan
    It all started when a doctor sparked on a topic within earshot of an ardent low-carb blogger. The doctor, an associate professor, Dr David Katz of Yale University was reported by Forbes to have claimed that the Atkins diet had resulted to the hospitalization of one of his patients.
  • Fat Consequences In Children
    As the world battles with an epidemic that is proving difficult to manage and showing signs of becoming a costly affair, our children are getting caught in the cross fire. Adult onset diabetes, weight loss surgery and weight loss medication for children is not exactly what parent had in mind when planning for their posterity.
  • The Weight Loss Exercises Energy Cycle
    The body has three cycles for providing energy during exercising. Each of this cycles demand energy from your body in a different way. However, only one of them is most effective in resulting to weight loss, hence the term weight loss exercises.
  • Weight Loss Surgeries Are Not A Cure. . . But A Tool
    Weight loss surgeries are not a cure for obesity. Infact you only have a few years to enjoy the its sole benefits.
  • Weight Loss and Carbohydrates. . . Some Basics
    When it comes to weight loss diets, carbohydrates are becoming misunderstood nutrients.
  • 8 Reasons To Lose Weight Now
    Obesity is the second leading cause of death after smoking. It is associated with an increased mortality rate of all ages including children. Losing weight though commercialized is still to your benefit if you carry more weight than you should.
  • Vitamins - the Basics
    Vitamins are micro-nutrients. They were discovered by Eijkman (1897) in Indonesia, Java, while studying a disease called beriberi common among natives whose main diet was rice. He noticed that fowl fed on polished rice, developed beri beri, but not when fed on crudely milled rice.
  • Proteins And Your Health
    Really little is scientifically know about proteins and your health. This will endeavor to bring you up to date with this little knowledge; the basics of what you need to know about proteins.
  • Cholesterol. . . Not Bad After All
    Do you know that total amount fat and cholesterol in the diet whether high or low, has no real link to heart diseases as widely believed? There are bad fats that increase risk to certain diseases and good fats that lower this risk. Cholesterol in food is not exactly a health problem.
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