Archive for January, 2012

Snooze to Lose Pounds

If you want to find a way to lose weight faster, and you think there is nothing new under the sun, then what I’m about to tell you will really make you nod off. According to Dr Kenneth Goodrick at Baylor University, a good night’s sleep is a vital ingredient for weight loss. He believes [...]

Do You Burn More Calories in Winter or Summer?

You burn fewer calories when you exercise in cold weather than you do when it’s hot. The hotter it is, the more extra work your heart has to do to prevent you from overheating. More than 70 percent of the energy produced by your muscles during exercise is lost as heat. So the harder you [...]

Is the Atkins Diet Safe?

The Atkins diet is a weight loss diet based on the principle that the body burns both carbohydrates and fat for calories. Therefore, according to the Atkins diet, if you reduce the amounts of carbohydrates in your diet, you will burn more fat and you will experience more weight loss. According to the Atkins diet, [...]

Virgin Coconut Oil And Weight Loss – Is It Only A Hoax?

Many studies and facts have shown that virgin coconut oil is effective in helping to reduce body weight. It contains fewer calories than other fats and also has a group of fats known as Medium-Chain Triglycerides (MCT) that are used by the body as an instant source of energy. MCT are easily digested by the [...]

What is the Zone Diet?

Dr. Barry Sears, a former researcher at MIT, originally developed the Zone Diet. The Zone Diet is based on maintaining insulin levels by striking a balance between carbohydrates and proteins at each meal Barry Sears contends that most diets currently recommended are high in carbohydrates and low in fats. Sears argues that this is a [...]

The History of Green Tea

Green tea & weight loss have become synonymous today. A glance at the history of the popular green tea and its medicinal values can thrill the readers and lovers of green tea. Although there are different Chinese legends that provide us with interesting information on how people started to use green tea, the method for [...]

Hoodia and Hunger

Perhaps you’ve already heard of hoodia, the unsightly and unpleasant tasting cactus-like plant which grows in the Kalahari Desert. In recent months, hoodia has received an overwhelming amount of attention from the media for it’s ability to suppress hunger with no discernable negative side effects. But how exactly does this plant fool our brains into [...]

Liberate Your Set Esteem and Lose Weight

Are you a ‘look-and-lose’ dieter? Have you studied every diet ever created, read a zillion diet books, and yet are still unhappy with your weight? Has your quest for the holy grail of dieting become a substitute for actually making changes required to take the ill health out of your current diet? If so, you [...]

20 Dieting Tips You Can Use Immediately To Start Losing Weight

Dieting is not easy. If it were, we would probably all bethin. Since we are not, here are some tips that successfulpeople use to lose weight so that others can benefit, too. SUCCESS TIP NO. 1: DRINK 8-10 GLASSES OF WATER EACH DAY Okay, for many people this is a big problem. Water doesn’ttaste all [...]

Want Power Before Will Power

The problem isn’t that you don’t have enough will power to achieve what you want. You have will power, but it’s not will power you need, it’s want power. You have to first want You must want to change your habits, want to lose some weight, want to give up your evening snacking before your [...]