Weight Loss and Dieting

Grapefruits for Weight Loss

While the grapefruit diet has often been disparaged and discredited by health practitioners and nutritionists, there is nevertheless evidence that eating grapefruits or drinking grapefruit juice regularly can help increase weight loss results.

Diet Wars

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Did you know that in long term studies comparing various diets, researchers have found that most of the time the diet in question is a lot less important that whether or not the participants stuck with it?  Longer term studies reveal a fairly even playing field when it comes to the range of different diets around, meaning that the best diet is actually the diet that you can stick to.

Healthy Habits for Weight Management

In order to lose weight most people need to follow a diet or other weight loss program and increase their activity levels.  But when it comes to weight maintenance, that’s when things can get somewhat more complicated.  All too often, people who have successfully lost weight, gain it back once they’ve reached their weight loss goals.

Eating Clean for Weight Loss

Sometimes losing weight doesn’t have to mean following a diet guru or cutting out all of your favourite foods.  Sometimes weight loss can be successfully achieved simply by eating clean. 

Best Thermogenic Foods

When it comes to losing weight most of us will take all the help we can get.  So finding out just which foods may help give you the extra edge is a worthy undertaking.  Keep reading to find out just which foods can seriously ramp up a sluggish metabolism and get you to your weight loss and fitness goals faster.

Why Protein Diets Work

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When it comes to losing weight, who doesn’t want faster more dramatic results?  Well, for most people who undertake a high protein, low carb diet, this is precisely what you get.  But just why is this the case?

Best Diet Tricks

When it comes to sticking with a diet, most people can use all the help they can get.  Changing your life and becoming more health conscious is of course a long term thing.  However, when trying to kick start your weight loss program; a good diet can do wonders.  Keeping yourself motivated is much easier when the scale moves downwards more quickly.

Dukan Diet Phases

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The Dukan diet is the latest diet to hit North America.  Though it has been around for over a decade now in France, it is only more recently that North Americans have begun to explore it as a quick and fairly simple way to shed pounds.

Workouts for your Body Type

According to some experts, determining the best workout for you can be based upon the general body type you have.  Some therefore divide the human body form into three distinct types.  These types can apparently have a profound effect on how you should best go about exercising and losing weight.

Tips to Staying Fit over the Holidays

When it comes to losing weight the holidays can be a real challenge.  However, by simply keeping a few points in mind you can maintain your weight and perhaps even lose a few pounds.

How to Chose the Right Diet for You?

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Ok so perhaps you’ve really overdone it over the holiday season and are looking for a way to start the New Year with a new diet plan.  But just what are you going to chose?

Meal Planning for Weight Loss

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When it comes to successful weight loss, planning ahead can be the key to success.  However, it is not only your weight loss goals and diet of choice that require some planning, but also your individual meals.

Fat and Fit?

A recent study conducted by research scientists at the Cooper Institute in Dallas, Texas concluded that fitness levels are actually more important determinants of health than size or shape.  While the debate over whether heavier people can still be healthy has been raging for some time, this recent development suggests that those in the minority opinion might actually be correct.

Dinner Plate 101

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Eating a healthy dinner can make a huge difference in managing to accomplish your weight loss and fitness goals.  While breakfast may be the most important meal of the day, dinner is the real kicker for most people when it comes to weight loss. 

Best Natural Weight Loss Purgatives

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When it comes to weight reduction, eating right is obviously key.  Choosing low calorie foods and exercising regularly will ensure steady weight loss.

Summer Weight Loss Tips

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Well with summer’s arrival it is certainly crunch time for those who are still struggling to lose those last few pounds.  And just because you may not have reached your weight loss goal just yet, there is no reason to give up.  You can still take off those last ten pounds before summer’s end and enjoy those trips to the beach, patios and pools, feeling like a million bucks.

The Truth about Portion Sizing

When it comes to losing weight, not only does what you eat matter, but how much you eat is likewise key to success.  However, one of the most disturbing statistics today is the fact that Americans on average eat about a thousand calories more per day than their grandparents and parents did. 

Are you eating too little for Weight Loss?

When it comes to losing weight, most of us are aware of the fact that we need to curb our caloric intake in order to shed pounds.  And for the majority of people, this is certainly the case.  However, there are times when eating too little can in fact lead to slower weight loss.

When Exercise alone isn’t Working

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According to a recent study conducted at the University of Leeds in the UK, exercise for weight loss doesn’t always work out the same way for all individuals.  While it is not surprise that individuals vary in their ability to lose weight, the real kicker is apparently the finding that some people are more prone to compensatory eating than others.

Tips to Avoid Vacation Weight Gain

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With summer fast approaching, many people are trying to get fit in order to fit into that new swimsuit.  However, while the advent of summer can be a great motivator for those of us that need to shed those last few pounds, summer also holds a variety of pitfalls when it comes to staying fit.  Vacations, while incredibly relaxing, can be a real detriment to all that pre-summer hard wor

Losing Weight with Diet Shakes

When it comes to losing weight, most people will do almost anything to drop those last few pounds.  Diet shakes are just one of the many ways people attempt to tip those scales.  But do these drinks really work?  Below we’ll examine just what diet shakes can do for you.

Best Diet Tricks

When it comes to dieting, denying yourself your favorite dishes can often be the worst sacrifice you’ll have to make.  But while you can’t go binging on those fatty foods you’ve always loved and still lose weight, you can find ways to make dieting less painful.

Psyllium Husks for Weight Loss

Psyllium husks are a soluble fiber herb that is traditionally grown in India.  This herb has recently been investigated for its potential to speed weight loss.  It is chalked full of fiber and as such is receiving a good deal of attention for its health and weight loss benefits.

Food Facts: Servings and Sizes

It used to be that most people had a good idea of what the recommended servings of fruits, grains, proteins and vegetables were; however nowadays it seems we’ve completely lost sight of what a healthy and balanced diet might look like.  With portion sizes getting bigger and bigger and people’s waistlines following in suit, it might be worth re-examining just what the basic diet should look

Abdominal Fat

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Although it is true that you can’t beat belly flab without working on the rest of your body as well, the truth about that spare tire you’ve been sporting is that it is far more dangerous to your health than fat located on other areas of your body.  As such, it is really important that you find out how to lose weight around the midsection.  By slimming down your waist you can gain a ne

Fat Flushes

Fat flushes are a combination of a detox program and weight loss diet plan.  By combining these two aspects, you are in a better position to lose weight faster and with greater ease.  Fat flushes generally involve a couple of stages with each stage designed to help your body adjust to a new eating regime.

The Dukan Diet

A new diet emerging out of France has now taken center stage among health aficionados.  According to Dukan diet proponents, the Dukan diet will help combat a variety of current ills, including Diabetes, obesity and heart and cardiovascular diseases.

Appetite Suppressing Strategies

When dieting it is inevitable that the body will feel hungry from time to time.  When you begin to limit your usual caloric intake and increase your physical activity, there is really no way of getting around that gnawing feeling of hunger and self denial.  Giving in to your cravings will only prolong the inevitable need to suck it up and deny yourself that

Introduction to Ephedra and Ephedrine Alkaloids

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Key Points:

  • Ephedra or ma-huang is a Chinese botanical sold as a dietary supplement in the United States. It is a natural source of ephedrine and pseudoephedrine, which are often used in weight loss and athletic performance products.

Metabolism Drug Induced Weight Loss with Ephedrine

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Metabolism Drug Induced Weight Loss Can Be Effective, But Are You Aware Of The Risks?