Category: weight loss

Dieting can be Stressful

Dieting can be stressful especially for those who love their food. This can lead to two eating disorders, bulima and anorexia. Bulima is whereby a person eats and eats the food she loves and then induces vomiting to get rid of the food to avoid putting on weight. This is bad for the body is …

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Shall I Reduce Calories to Lose Weight?

Many people think that by cutting down the calories they can lose weight. This could be the result of advertisements about low-calorie food products and beverages. What you don’t realise is that when you reduce your calorie intake far below the required levels, your body begins to digest the fats. It sounds good but it …

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Recognise these symptoms?

Do you feel tired most of the time? Are you on a short fuse and lose your cool easily? Do you feel uncomfortable, bloated and pass smelly wind? Not only that, your mouth emits a bad odor whenever you speak and your stools are smelly as well. You find it hard to sleep at night …

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Green Tea for Weight Loss

Green tea has immense health benefits. It helps you to lose weight. How? It burns fat and boosts your metabolism rate naturally. Green tea also prevents obesity by stopping the movement of glucose in fat cells. So if you are on a healthy diet and also drink green tea you can be sure that you …

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How Do You Know When to Lose Weight?

This is a valid question. Many people do not know whether they should lose weight or not. So how do you know if you should lose weight? Firstly, if you are obese you will need to lose weight. Not many people realize the difference between being overweight and being obese. If you are thirty or …

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Eat Less of Everything

Going on a diet to lose weight can be hard especially if the going gets tough. If you have been consistent in controlling your intake of food and exercising at the same time, you would have lost some weight. However, as we all know, routine can be boring especially when it has been many months …

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Laxatives for Weight Loss?

Many slimming teas available over the counter have been widely advertised in the newspapers to promote weight loss. They usually contain natural laxatives derived from plants such as senna, rhubarb root, cascara, castor oil, buckthorn and aloe. What do they taste like? Not bad at all, I must say. Some have been flavored while others …

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Overweight Problems

If you don’t exercise but continue to eat everything in sight, you are going to have overweight problems. It is easy to put on weight but very difficult to lose the extra pounds. Being overweight means being out of shape and having to opt for larger clothing sizes or loose clothes to hide the ugly …

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The Benefits of Exercise

Not everyone believes in the benefits of exercise. Why? This group of people believe that exercise makes them hungry and they will eat more and then put on more weight. However it is not exercise that makes them hungry. It is the blood sugar levels in their body. You see, after a meal, your blood …

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Why it is Important to Lose Weight

It is even more urgent to lose weight now. More and more young people are becoming obese and the Malaysian newspaper Star has reported that children as young as ten years of age have developed Type 2 Diabetes or Diabetes Mellitus, a disease that is usually found in middle-aged people of 50 years and above. …

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