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A new campaign has been kicked off in New York to promote healthy eating in an attempt to tackle the growing obesity crisis. It is estimated that 15 billion gallons of the soda is drunk in America each year which…
Weight Loss
Learn how to lose weight the healthy way with diet and exercise routines. Our advice will teach you how to plan your meals and how to workout at home or in the gym.
Bodyweight exercises to help reduce man boobs
A sensitive topic for many men, but ‘man boobs’ are a real and unfortunate condition them some men suffer from. The medical name for this condition is gynecomastia, which is most often seen in boys during puberty, but can in…
Frank Skinner’s says Make Fat Uncool Again
Frank Skinner, writing in The Times, has a new theory on the causes of the obesity epidemic. It is simply because being fat is no longer uncool. As little as 20 years ago fat children were ridiculed in school, often…
Successful long-term weight loss
To really understand how to lose weight you need to learn a little bit about the human body, the mind and nutrition. Weight loss really is not a complex task – you really do just need to eat less and exercise more. Here we cover the main topics on weight loss. There is also a list of resources and references to allow you to learn more on each topic discussed. There are also some excellent weight loss and fitness plans now available online that will help you to lose weight and get you fit quickly.
Obesity diet pill to be available over the counter in the UK
BBC News reported yesterday that a new drug has been developed to tackle the obesity epidemic. The pill will be offered to patients with a BMI of over 28 (i.e. those who are very overweight / borderline obese). The drug…
Make a Change4Life – NHS Anti Obesity Initiative
The British National Health Service (NHS) has launched a new campaign, inviting people to “Change4Life“. The aim of the campaign is to highlight the risks of cancer, heart disease and diabetes that obesity poses to everyone, and how to reduce…
Red wine loosely linked to weight loss in mice
Some people believe that red wine has some special properties which can, when drunk in small quantities, improve your health. Now Swiss scientists at the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne in Switzerland have managed to extract a compound from red wine which…
Fat burning beads are banned
There has been a victory for the advocates of a rational approach to health and fitness this week, as a company that had been marketing fitness beads has been forced to stop marketing its snake oil in the UK. The…
Diet pill approved by NHS although there are health risks
The NHS has approved the use of Rimonabant, an obesity drug, in the England and Wales, even though there are serious concerns regarding its side effects. The diet pill can help with weight loss in obese patients, with results showing…
Fern Britton Makes Gastric Band Surgery More Popular
Since TV presenter Fern Britton announced that gastric band surgery helped her lose five stone, GP’s have reported a sudden increase enquiries about the procedure. Many patients are now very keen to have the surgery themselves, in a slightly desperate…
Big Breakfast Diet Could Help You Lose Weight – Eat Like a King
Research from the Virginia Commonwealth University, USA, has shown that eating breakfast like a King could be the key to long term weight loss and weight management. In the study, overweight and obese women who consumed half of their daily…
Government Considering Paying Obese People to Lose Weight
As the obesity epidemic continues to increase, with almost 25% of the British population now officially obese (according to the Body Mass Index), action is needed to at least halt, and ideally reverse, this growing epidemic. If nothing is done,…