The No S Diet
The No S Diet
No Snacks, No Sweets, No Seconds. Except (sometimes) on days that start with S. That's the basis of Reinhard Engels' No S Diet - where simplicity is the key....
Acomplia Side Effects: The Story You Must Read
Rimonabant (brand name Acomplia) has been pitched as the blockbuster weight loss drug of the decade. The company manufacturing the drug, Sanofi-Aventis believes that sales will reach $5.2 billion per year by 2010. That is a staggering amount of money. Investors are getting swept up in the buzz, and desperate consumers are falling over themselves to get an opportunity to...
How to Eat Less Candy
Use an opaque (not transparent) candy bowl, have a lid on it, and keep it out of easy reach. Anecdotal? No - this is from a study of 40 women at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The candy bowls were placed in the women's workplaces, and each day, the bowl was topped up, and various locations were tested....
7-Color Cuisine: Enjoying Your Meal
Enjoy what you are eating and take your time. Think about how wonderful each bite tastes and how it will nourish your body. You'll rediscover that one of life's greatest pleasures is enjoying good food. By eating slowly and thoughtfully...
Does Someone You Care About Have Anorexia?
Anorexia is an eating disorder that develops when someone stops eating enough food for adequate nutrition. It can happen slowly, over several months or even years, as when some people grow older or develop an underlying disease like cancer. As...
Pass The Tea Bag
Drink it - don't wear it... Herbal teas are a great option for hot drinks. I became a herbal tea drinker many years ago during a drawn out camping experience - all we had to drink was a large box of different herbal tea flavors. There was something therapeutic about sitting around the campfire sipping herb tea....
McDonald's Global Decline: Too Uncool?
Over the last year I have watched as two local McDonald's outlets have closed - no reason given. I was waiting for big refurbished McDonald's to appear - but they didn't. In my area, there are now an equal number of Subway and McDonald's outlets. This anecdotal evidence is hardly an indication of global decline. McDonald's revenue is as healthy...
Low Fat Food Not No Fat Food
If you're "fat" and don't eat low fat food in public, do you get comments from others? Eating fat has become such an emotive thing to the point that when an overweight person eats a burger in public, fingers are...
Calcium Pills? They Don't Work
Yet another long held belief is about to be turned on its head. Researchers spent $18 million in a huge study (36,000 women aged over 50) that tests calcium supplements. In a nutshell - they found no broad benefit in preventing broken bones. The differences between the placebo group and the supplementation group were so small as to provide...
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