Category — Weight Loss Tips

Women have always had the luxury of ingeniously hiding their love handles and sucking in the little imperfections of their thighs. No guys have an opportunity to shave inches off their stomachs – the new RIPT FUSION Firm Control Shapewear promises men an instant six-pack.

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Is this diet for real? You get to sit around on the couch all day watching TV, basically never moving, and still lose weight? Sounds too good to be true if you ask me. But apparently it’s worked for author of the diet book The Couch Potato Diet, Gregory J.E. Ladas. [Read more →]

As long as people are trying to lose weight and as long as corporations are trying to make a quick buck, there will always be fad diets. The Five Bite Diet is one (not-so-new) fad diet that’s being punted in the book Why Weight Around? Changing The Weight Loss Strategy. It’s basic premise – eat only five bites of your food and you’ll start to lose weight. [Read more →]

At 700 pounds, Paul Mason is the world’s fattest man. And that’s after losing 280 pounds! Now Paul has begun writing his autobiography in which he plans to tell the world of his weight-loss secrets. [Read more →]

Just because you appear to have a normal Body Mass Index doesn’t mean you’re healthy; it could in actual fact mean you’re obese! A new study published in the European Heart Journal defines a new term ‘normal weight obesity’ – an individual who has a normal BMI but has a high ratio of body fat, which could lead to obesity-related diseases like heart disease, high cholesterol and diabetes. [Read more →]

Celebrity dietician and motivational speaker Tanya Zuckerbrot believes that you should never sacrifice taste just to lose weight. But with Super Bowl Sunday coming up it’ll be hard to resist all the high-fat foods and stay on the health eating wagon. The author of the The F-Factor Diet: Discover the Secret to Permanent Weight Loss shares her low-calorie recipes for game-time favorites: buffalo wings and potato skins. [Read more →]

New research by scientists suggests that the thin air at high altitudes increases an individual’s metabolism and decreases their appetite, even without exercise. The small study found that obese participants who spent time at a weight-loss facility in the mountains lost weight without being put on a diet. [Read more →]

Being extremely overweight might not be entirely the fault of the individual; it may actually be their genes. Or rather, lack of genes. British scientists have discovered that severely obese people lack more or less the same 30 genes – which are found in people of normal weight. [Read more →]

This year Heidi Klum will once again be wearing her heart on her sleeve with Diet Coke and the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute to promote the national heart health awareness campaign, The Heart Truth. Heidi will also be hitting the runway in the annual charity fashion show, the Red Dress Collection Fashion Show, sponsored by Diet Coke and a popular kickoff to Mercedes Benz Fashion Week. [Read more →]

If you like your carrots orange, potatoes yellow and apricots peach, you may be in for a surprise when you should at UK high-end retailer Marks & Spencer. Food technologists are creating new varieties of your favorite fruits and vegetables.

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