Weight loss is not only a priority for many people, but it can be big business for many enterprising individuals who see a market for meals in the form of shakes, abdominal shaping machines, and exercise foods that are purportedly designed to help you lose weight with every bite. But how reliable are these products, and can they really help you lose weight?
In the current weight loss and fitness market, abdominal machines seem to be taking the biggest chunk of exercise and fitness equipment. Energy bars and sports drinks are widely advocated as good food substitutes for people who need to have an extra boost, whether they are exercising, studying, or working.
When television commercials talk about a balanced diet, they show pictures of green, leafy salads, and not much else. But are these truly friendly to people who are watching their weight?
People who are trying hard to lose weight consider bread, especially whitebread, as one of their enemy foods. This is because bread is known to contain lots of carbohydrate that makes losing weight harder.
Actually, carbohydrate per se, is not the culprit but simple carbohydrates. If you’d like to lose weight, aim for complex carbohydrates. But there’s also something interesting about food rich in protein making one lose weight more than food rich in carbohydrates.
Working with researchers from University of WA, a Fremantle bakery called Bodi’s Bakehouse made a bread that’s dubbed as Slimmer’s Choice. This weight loss bread is rich in protein but not in carbohydrate, making people who eat it feel full longer compared with ordinary breads.
I remember an uncle of mine who had a thyroid control problem a few years ago. He lost a lot of weight when his thyroid started to go cuckoo on him. Everyone in the family who’s been having some weight management issues has started to envy him. Until one day, he passed out and had to undergo a surgical procedure. Although I don’t know if he’s ever used ThyroStart, this post I dedicate to him and all of those who are trying to tame their thyroid problems.
ThyroStart is a supplement for thyroid control which is commercialized as a way for thyroid problem sufferers to avoid too much weight gain.
Building anticipation for the new weight loss reality show on ABC - Fat March, here’s a casting video of Steve Pfeister, the master trainer and host of the Fat March contestants.
Fat March will be airing on ABC starting on August 6, 8pm CST.
Pears and Apples Make Great Fruit Salad is for those who have finally loved their voluptuousness. No more diets for all of us. Just tasteful picking of clothes.
Because of chest infection and stomach perforation, a weight-loss surgery patient is suing a Singapore hospital, accusing that those conditions were caused by the laparoscopic gastric banding procedure performed by the said hospital.
Lisa Beth Larsson, 43, a US citizen who weighed 120 kilograms, alleges negligence on the part of Tan Tock Seng Hospital (TTSH) and claims that the surgeon failed to do his job with reasonable care and skill.
She is seeking damages for the pain and physical consequences suffered, in addition to the 136,000 Singapore dollars (90,066 US dollars) she spent on the surgery in 2004, The Straits Times said.
The hospital and the surgeon, through their lawyers, dispute Larsson’s claims and are contesting the suit.
The trial is set for January to allow an expert witness to testify.
The procedure to treat morbid obesity is known as laparoscopic gastric banding. Ross Tay, another patient who weighed 160 kilograms, died last year in Singapore of post-surgical complications.
Ever heard of synchronized menstruation? It’s when women living together for a long period of time have their menstruation almost at the same time. What does menstruation has to do with your weight? It’s this synchronization that seems to be also getting noticed when it comes to people who are often together. Something like synchronized weight gain?
This came into my attention after reading this article from Jonathan Lapook asking if obesity is contagious.
Jonathan mentioned about this research, Framingham Heart Study, suggesting that a person’s weight can be adopted by other people he or she is often with.
Treating obesity will be tantamount to treating asthma if this discovery about the immune system cells, known as Th2 cells, that links the two conditions yields more favorable results.
Although some speculate that asthma causes obesity because of having to resort to a more sedentary lifestyle, weight gain, or the increase in body mass index or BMI, happens even before asthma develops, which strengthened the link between asthma and obesity.
This linkage made researchers follow through their study about Th2 cells, which inflames the lungs and produces protein that affects the appetite of a person.
The significance of this study is for asthmatic people to improve their condition.
A news article about pregnancy weight affecting whether a child would be obese or not confirms my theory on what caused me to become someone who’d be easier to gain weight than lose some pounds.
According to the report, a study conducted by British and New Zealand researchers that there’s a better chance of a kid getting obese if his or her mother did not mind her weight during pregnancy.
Scientists at the University of Auckland’s Liggins centre say the way the foetus adapts to the environment in the womb can determine how it reacts to food later in life.
If the womb is low in nutrients, the foetus may predict food supplies will be low later in life and set its metabolism to store and conserve fat, the researchers led by Professor Peter Gluckman said in a statement Tuesday.
Many thinks that exercising continuously will make their weight loss endeavor more successful. It’s as if breaking a sweat should never stop just to earn that head-turning figure. Now that notion is about to be dumped…
A Japanese research about two sets of people exercising - one having a continuous exercise with a rest period of 1 hour and one having two exercise bouts with a 20-minute rest between each bout, showed results that fat breakdown is greater for those who participated in the exercise with a break.
People who are trying hard to lose weight consider bread, especially whitebread, as one of their enemy foods. This is because bread is known to contain lots of carbohydrate that makes losing weight harder.
I remember an uncle of mine who had a thyroid control problem a few years ago. He lost a lot of weight when his thyroid started to go cuckoo on him. Everyone in the family who’s been having some weight management issues has started to envy him. Until one day, he passed out and had to undergo a surgical procedure. Although I don’t know if he’s ever used ThyroStart, this post I dedicate to him and all of those who are trying to tame their thyroid problems.
Ever heard of synchronized menstruation? It’s when women living together for a long period of time have their menstruation almost at the same time. What does menstruation has to do with your weight? It’s this synchronization that seems to be also getting noticed when it comes to people who are often together. Something like synchronized weight gain?
Treating obesity will be tantamount to treating asthma if this discovery about the immune system cells, known as Th2 cells, that links the two conditions yields more favorable results.
A news article about pregnancy weight affecting whether a child would be obese or not confirms my theory on what caused me to become someone who’d be easier to gain weight than lose some pounds.
Many thinks that exercising continuously will make their weight loss endeavor more successful. It’s as if breaking a sweat should never stop just to earn that head-turning figure. Now that notion is about to be dumped…