What is the best way to lose weight? Diet, exercise, both? Well, the answer lies somewhere in between. Exercise: my personal failure Two years ago I gained a little bit of extra weight and made a mistake thinking I could fix it by getting super-active. I love exercise, and thought it shouldn’t be a big […]
Weight Loss Myth: ‘My Slow Metabolism Makes Me Fat’
By Tim Crowe, Deakin University People who struggle to lose weight often blame their difficulty achieving a healthy weight on their “slow metabolism”. So is this a real barrier to weight loss, or is the real culprit an excess of food and a deficit of exercise? First, let’s consider the term metabolism. It means the […]
Why You Should Eat Fat When Trying to Lose Weight
Eating low-fat low-calorie diet still remains the most popular way to lose weight. While I am not into diet wars, and have successfully lost weight with different approaches (low-fat low-calorie and high-fat low carb), there is one good reason why you should plan to include more fat in your meals, especially when trying to lose […]
The Best Way to Shed Pounds is to Do It Fast!
If you’ve been overweight for a long time, you might find it extremely difficult to get back in shape despite diet and exercise. On the other hand, most of us don’t have issues with losing a few newly-gained pounds, as long as one condition is met – we do it fast! Dieters have noticed it […]
Getting Paid to Lose Weight? Let’s See If It Works…
A while ago I wrote about $10,000 diet. Believe it or not, some people are ready to pay this amount for nothing more than common sense science-based weight loss advice and a little counselling (not that I tried). The diet works and I guess its high price is one of the major factors of success. […]
Lose Weight Like Chinese
While China is panicking about what they see as an obesity epidemic, I yet have to see an overweight Chinese. I mean seriously, this is rare. China’s overall obesity rate is below five percent, however it reaches 20 percent in some cities due to introduction of fast food. I agree that 20 percent obesity rate […]
Losing Weight Without Surgery
Gastric bypass surgery might become obsolete in the future. Harvard scientists performed gastric bypass surgery on mice and then studied the changes in their gut microbes after the surgery. I am not sure what exactly they have seen there, but they ended up transferring these microbes to mice that didn’t have surgery, which resulted in […]
Lose Weight by Eating Bread
You know there is a catch, don’t you? Well, yes and no. According to some studies, people who eat white bread are hungrier two hours later and take more calories at the next meal than people who prefer whole-grain bread. So while eating whole-grain bread will not make you thinner, this type of bread will […]
Meal Planning Tip to Lose More Weight
According to one study, people who eat more vegetables will consume less calories while feeling just as satisfied as after higher-calorie meal with more meat. Most people plan their meals around meat. It goes like this: we are going to have chicken today… What would go well with chicken? Potato? Pasta? Vegetables? You end up […]
Cellulite as an Invented Disease
The word cellulite began to appear in English publications in the late 1960s, with the earliest mention in Vogue (15 April 1968). Nobody worried about cellulite before, nobody even heard of it, but once it was mentioned in Vogue the word spread like wildfire. Here is what was said about it: Vogue began to focus […]
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