Dieting should be fun
I'm sure the title has gotten your attention. Author Dean Geddes offers what he calls a "2 Fuel Tanks System" which ensures fast, efficient weight loss. Let's explore its contents. Geddes provides a compact and succinctly-versed book that tackles weight loss by finding the most efficient way to tap into fat stores through exercise and diet. The Exercise part...
Supermarkets can be very manipulative: the candies at the checkout counter (at the perfect height for a 4 year old); the more expensive items are at eye level - budget options often sit nearer the ground; the colors, the smells, the ambience. It's all there to make you buy more. On-line grocery shopping is a good alternative - and...
Stop me if you've heard this before... but before you click out, keep reading - it gets interesting. Eating a big breakfast with copious amounts of (gulp) carbs and protein, followed by a low carb, low calorie diet the rest of the day has shown some pretty promising results - and get this; obliterates the low carb only! This...
I'm a little bit out of touch with what's popular on TV - but I do know that crime shows are perennial favorites. We really are fixated with murder and violence. A curious study has shown that people eat more when they contemplate death....
The largest supermarket firm in Britain, Tesco's, has introduced a new "Trim Trolley" to help shoppers burn up extra calories whilst buying groceries. It has attachments usually seen on gym equipment - a large resistance wheel between the two rear wheels of the trolley, and a heart rate monitor....
You'd think that the heavier a person is and the more exercise they do, the more benefits they receive-right? It doesn't seem that way. A new study has determined that exercise reduces hunger in lean women, but NOT obese women....
Some lucky people seem blessed with an iron will; they decide to go on a diet, swear off chocolate, and not a morsel of it passes their lips until they've reached their goal weight. The rest of us occasionally need a little help. What can you do when motivation vanished weeks ago, when you find yourself slipping back into...
Treadmill Desks appear to be growing popularity. The TrekDesk takes it one step further with the addition of an exercise ball. At first I thought these things seemed rather gimmicky. However I'm beginning to notice more aches and pains from sitting in an office all day. I seriously wonder how difficult it would be to type at a keyboard...
There has been much talk lately about the obesity epidemic which is sweeping the world, and the ensuing panic has resulted in an avalanche of books and articles packed with ideas about why we are growing larger and what we can do about it. As a physician struggling with making sense of all this over the past few decades, I...
Congratulations America, you are no longer the heavyweight champions of the world. The obesity rate of the US is currently at 25%. However - according to a new report - another country now has an obesity rate of 26%. Who is it?...