You must have heard about the term ‘low-calorie’ diet. Truth to be told, the term ‘low-calorie’ is sort of a misnomer. It is true that the diet indeed aims to reduce your calorie intake, but it does so by reducing the amount of your carbohydrate consumption! As such, you may also call it ‘low-carbohydrate’ diet. Different low-calorie diets restrict your carbohydrate intake in different ways. Some do it by reducing your overall carbohydrate intake. Others b... Read Full Story

There are a lot of commercial health drinks out there in the market nowadays.  They claim that they provide cure for illnesses, even citing studies of their drastic impact on cancer.  But amidst these countless choices, we may be forgetting about nature’s most important “cocktail” – water. Some health professionals say that most of the people nowadays are dehydrated and they are not aware of it.  People are more interested in drinking coffee, tea and sodas which also contains caffeine.  Abou... Read Full Story

The following are 10 simple steps to improve your fat loss: 1. Calculate how many calories you body needs to consume to maintain your existing weight. This is called you maintenance calories.(Search Google with “calorie needs” and you will find a few different calculators to help you with this) 2. Initially deduct 10% (to a maximum of 500Kcal) off the total maintenance calories. Drastically reducing your calories will result in muscle and water loss - not fat loss. 3. Divide you ... Read Full Story

Even if you have never been on a diet before, holiday season is a good time to get into dieting, for chances are that like many others you too would end up adding some extra pounds to your body during this time! No ordinary diet program would work for this special season, mind you. Fat Loss 4 Idiots is the only program which I believe is perfect for combating holiday weight gain! Why? Not only it doesn’t make you starve for days, but also allows you three days of ‘cheating’... Read Full Story

People are always looking for an easy way to lose weight, and if you too are one of them, here is help for you. If someone told you that dieting has to be hard and boring, he probably doesn’t know about how much medical science and research has progressed in the past few years. Gone are the days when you would have to eat like a mouse in the hope of losing weight, or be forced to eat less than even your youngest kid in the hope of getting rid of that annoying fat belly! How about eatin... Read Full Story

Often we are looking for the quick and easy way. We want the shortcuts. We want to be promoted right away. We want to get rich right away. We want to be accomplished today. These are some of the things that we want to fast track in our lives. And it seems that even our cooking and meals are being drawn under this philosophy. We often prefer quick and easy recipes that we disregard the health values of the food we eat. Quick and easy recipes need not be unhealthy. Everything can be healthy wi... Read Full Story

Because of so many illnesses and chronic diseases that occur among people through the years, more and more individuals are playing attention to their health and fitness because these would help them combat certain medical conditions. Today, one of the major reasons why people are overweight or suffer from minor and major health risks is that they don’t practice having a healthy diet. You can achieve health and fitness through a healthy diet. Effective formula for a healthy diet Healthy diet—... Read Full Story

Recently a friend of mine said to me “I need to lose weight for my wedding day and be a beautiful bride”. In my experience losing weight starts in the mind and not in the food cupboard. It also needs to be viewed as a change of lifestyle and not just something to be done for a special event. What I suggested she should do is to take time and plan. Work out first how much weight you want to lose and what length of time you have to do it in. Say you are getting married in the autum... Read Full Story

There are plenty of fat loss foods available in the market and when you consume these fat loss foods regularly, you will find that instead of piling on the kilos, your waistline is receding. Therefore your diet must contain fat loss foods which will aid you in your battle against the bulge. Which fat loss foods are good and suitable for me? By fat loss foods, I don’t mean those fad diets so popular with celebrities. One of the best fat loss foods is a green vegetable or fruit salad consistin... Read Full Story

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