Here are 16 Simple Ways to Reduce Fat in Your Diet When eating meat: Choose lean cuts of meat, such as tenderloin, flank steak, chuck, top and bottom round, or lean veal. Use more poultry and fish Remove all visible fat before cooking. Remove skin from poultry before cooking. Broil or bake instead of frying. [...]
Find out if and how much your feelings rule your food choices with this quiz. Uncovering the triggers that lead to emotional eating could help you decipher your eating patterns and resolve the problem of unwanted pounds. Read the following statements, thn rate your own eating habits by using this scoring system. 1 = Never [...]
To help guide you in your weight management and exercise efforts, use the following guidelines. Remember that the total expenditure of calories during exercise ultimately determines the amount of fat use. No single exercise routine is ideal for everyone because of the individual nature of metabolism plus factors like physical limitations such as age, sex, [...]
These herbal teas, marked for their “slimming” properties, contain laxatives or diuretics or a combination of both. A laxative is defined as any medicine that either stimulates bowel movements or softens the stool for emptying while a diuretic is used to rid that body of excess water through an increased rate of urination. While laxatives [...]
Using “slimming” herbal teas and other types of herbal weight-loss products (pills, shakes, etc) is aptly called the “toilet” diet. Because people who consume such products spend a lot of time in the bathroom. Still, many people patronize these products., because they reportedly ensure rapid weight loss. What consumers are not usually aware of is [...]
The sad truth about Redux and Fen/Phen is that they are only effective while treatment is going on. Once the drugs are stopped, 95 % of the people regain all the lost weight within five years. This is one case where the risks definitely outweigh the benefits!
Primary pulmonary hypertension is not the only health risk associated with the use of both Redux and Pondimin. Dexfenfluramine and fenfluramine cause changes in brain cells to occur. There is some controversy as to whether these changes can be defined as brain cell damage. Definite cases of brain damage have been found in laboratory animals [...]
The United States Food and Drug Authority recalled that diet pills Redux and Pendimin because of increasing evidence that they can cause damage to the heart and lungs. The researchers were questioning why the FDA had approved the use of the above mentioned drugs for a year when, in their opinion, there wasn’t enough evidences [...]
The built-in protective mechanism that ensured survival during a famine now works against a woman which she tries to starve herself in a misguided attempt to lose weight. The body cannot tell the difference between famine and a self-imposed “crash diet”. When you go on a starvation diet, biochemical changes are set into motion. One [...]
Liposuction doesn’t mean permanent fat removal in all cases. Some people may get the fat back in the same place or elsewhere, depending on their overall body metabolism. One cannot say, “well, have liposuction and you will not have to worry. You can eat anything you want.” because that is just not true. You do [...]
