Jumat, 30 Maret 2007

Courtney Love Loses 44 Pounds

Courtney Love, 42, made a New Year's Resolution to lose weight in a healthy way. People Magazine spotted an entry on her website where she says she's lost 44 pounds since the beginning of this year and that she would like to lose another six to eleven pounds. She's done this with a macrobiotic diet focused mostly on vegetables and fish. She has also been getting lots of exercise as well as partaking...

Kamis, 29 Maret 2007

Health Club Weight Loss Programs

Duncan joined a weight loss program at his local health club twenty weeks ago. This customized program includes personal training, consultations with a dietitian and even group therapy. He has been successful in losing 30 pounds. He also dropped six inches around his waist and lowered his blood pressure and bad cholesterol reading.The health club he belongs to has only two locations (Seattle and Bellevue)....

Rabu, 28 Maret 2007

The Health Risks of Being Overweight

What are some of the main health risks of being overweight? Studies have shown that being even just five to ten percent overweight can increase the risk of getting certain chronic diseases including high blood pressure, heart disease, gallstones, colon cancer and stroke. You are considered overweight if your BMI is over 25 and obese if your BMI is over 30. Calculate your BMI here. As an example, a...

Senin, 26 Maret 2007

Alkaline Versus Acidic Foods

Most people eat too many acidic foods these days. This creates a real imbalance in our bodies. When the body becomes imbalanced and overly acidic the condition is called acidosis. According to the bible of nutritional information, Prescription for Nutritional Healing, symptoms can include insomnia, water retention, recessed eyes, rheumatoid arthritis, migraine headaches, abnormally low blood pressure,...

Star Jones in Bathing Suit at Age 45

Star Jones Reynolds celebrated her 45th birthday this Saturday. Here she is on a beach in Miami with friend and actress Vanessa Bell Calloway. (Photo and scoop via Just Jared).See more about Star Jones and her dramatic weight loss story he...

Minggu, 25 Maret 2007

Can You Simply Change Your Lifestyle?

Knowing the health risks isn't enough to stop people who have bad eating habits. This is also the case for people with other bad habits or addictions such as smoking or drinking. As one example written about by Carol Crenna, over 1,500,000 people get a coronary bypass or angioplasty each year and this costs $60 billion. Doctors tell patients that to stop heart disease before it kills them they have...

Jumat, 23 Maret 2007

When Dieting and Overeating Become a Vicious Cycle

Most people on a diet are doomed to failure. The statistics say that only four out of a hundred people who diet are able to lose the weight and keep it off. Studies have also found that ninety percent of American high school girls are dieting, even though many of them are not overweight and obese. A 2001 study of female high school students found that 11 per cent had used laxatives to lose weight,...

Kamis, 22 Maret 2007

Extreme Weight Loss for Jenna Jameson

Jenna Jameson has lost a lot of weight and looks as though she is anorexic. On her website at MySpace she explains how a nasty divorce is responsible for her loss of appetite;I feel like I need to address the weight rumors that have been swirling for a few months now. This saddens me... only because, everyone that is judging me... has absolutely NO idea what is happening in my life. People are hateful...

When A Size Four is Not Good Enough For Hollywood

Lena Heady, 33, the lead actress in the movie "300" is quoted as saying she is going to ditch Hollywood and just do British movies. She says she is sick of Hollywood's obsession with weight and the stress of staying slim enough for US casting directors. Heady is an American dress size 4 (British size ...

Selasa, 20 Maret 2007

Eating Raw Foods to Lose Over 150 Pounds

Here's a three minute video clip about a woman who used to weigh 294 pounds. She decided to change her diet drastically and began eating only raw foods. Within the first year she lost a whopping 105 pounds. Today she weighs 126 pounds. This is her story as portrayed by the BBC. The video has some really good before and after photos. Angela Stokes, 27, says the raw foods diet changed her life and that within one month of starting the raw foods regiment...

A Massive Dog Food Recall is Underway

There is a pet food company called Menu Foods which makes canned chunks of meat in gravy that is packaged in cans and small foil pouches. Some of their pet food is causing kidney failure in dogs and cats. This company supplies a huge number of brand names. Just for dog food, 51 brand names on this list may be tainted. See their lists for cat food here. 1. Americas Choice, Preferred Pets 2. Authority...

Senin, 19 Maret 2007

Everyone is Starved for Something

The other day I was walking past a McDonalds and saw a young fat mother sitting by the window with her baby stroller beside her. Her eyes had a glazed look as she devoured her big ice cream sundae. I had a flashback from the night before, where I had seen a man sitting at a bar, his eyes glazed from alcohol and gulping back another mug of beer.I can't understand how people who abuse alcohol can be...

Jumat, 16 Maret 2007

An Extreme Walking Schedule to Regain Health

Priscilla weighed 390 at her heaviest in June of last year. Her and her husband Morton decided to take some drastic measures to lose weight. They are undertaking an extreme walking and cycling regiment. They started on January 1st when Priscilla weighed 343 pounds and their goal is to walk and cycle across the entire perimeter of the United States. They have completed over 1,000 miles already. In...

Rabu, 14 Maret 2007

iPod Fitness Works for Me

I bought an iPod a month ago. I'm writing to report that it's been a wonderful help to me to get me out there walking more regularly. It's the second generation iPod, much tinier and more powerful than the first ones that came out a few years ago. It costs $79. (The photo here shows that it's not much bigger than the size of a quarter.)Before I got the iPod, I was walking an average of about 7 miles...

Fruits with the Highest Fiber Content

A high fiber diet is very helpful for losing weight and improving digestion. When our intestinal tract is not functioning properly it can cause fatigue and listlessness. Legumes, vegetables, bran and oats are all high fiber foods. But some fruits are way up there as well in terms of high fiber content. What are the fruits with the highest fiber content? A cup of raspberries has a whopping 8 grams...

Kamis, 08 Maret 2007

Jessica is Fat No More

Jessica has lost 140 pounds. She has lost all her weight naturally, without surgery, fad diets or diet pills. She says she was finally able to start losing weight "once I realized that being "fat" and being "me" were not the same thing.See her weight loss tips he...

Selasa, 06 Maret 2007

Munnalita On Infertility and Obesity

Munnalita Kyrimis wants to get pregnant but she hasn't been able to conceive and she thinks her obesity may be the reason behind her infertility. Munalita is one of the contestants on the Biggest Loser in Australia. Her starting weight on the show was 127 kilograms which converts to 280 pounds. She is 5 feet and five inches tall. She's a hairdresser and becoming a mother has always been her dream....

Mel Russell on the Biggest Loser

Mel Russell is one of the contestants on the Biggest Loser show in Australia. She is 24 years old and her starting weight on the contest was 108 kilograms which converts to 239 pounds. At six feet tall she's quite a bit taller than the average Australian woman. She works at a food magazine as an advertising coordinator and has to share offices with skinny snobby fashion magazine types. She's never...

A Toned Belly Inspirational Video

For those of us with a little extra flab on our bellies, here's an entertaining video clip showing toned bellydancers show off their beautiful bellies. It's a promotional video for the Bellyqueen Dance Theatre in New York....

Sabtu, 03 Maret 2007

An Outstanding True Story of Fat to Slim

Jennette has succeeded in an incredible feat. She has lost half her body weight. She is now down to 186 pounds and wants to lose another twenty pounds. (She's 5'9" tall.)Jennette has done it the slow way. She's completely changed her diet (by abiding to the South Beach Diet guidelines) and is now exercising regularly. In the process, she has scored a book contract to write about her weight loss journey....

Jumat, 02 Maret 2007

Breathing Mindfully to Lose Weight

How can something as simple as breathing help us lose weight?I know what I need to do to lose weight. So why aren't I doing it? The real secret for losing weight successfully is not some specific diet and exercise plan but in the mental and emotional hangups that I have to battle with in order to get to that point where I am no longer sabotaging my body and want to take good care of it.I came across...
 

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