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Pack some Nutrition by Planning Ahead
Understanding the small print - food labels
The two key things to look for are the ingredients list and the nutrition information panel.
Reasons to Eat S-L-O-W-L-Y!
Count your way into shape - get a calorie counter
Your weight goes up and down throughout life. Finding the balance for optimum health and weight seems easier for some than others. Some people do this effortlessly, without even being aware. Unfortunately, for many of us, this equation takes more effort and awareness.
Calorie counting is a useful way to keep track for weight maintenance, weight loss or in some cases, weight gain. Losing weight through calorie counting is a simple method while carrying on with your normal routine. It is effective in assessing current calorie intake and use this to alter your future intake, according to your individual goals.
Choosing the Right Diet for YOU!
Are you a slim couch potato?
Exercising but not losing weight? Do not despair.
For all of those who have hit a plateau in their weight loss, do not despair. Professionals in Australian health promotion have found that overweight individuals that exercise regularly have greatly improved health prospects weather they are losing weight or not.
New Weight Loss Drug Shows Promise
An experimental study of a new weight loss drug known as Tesofesine, has been shown to be twice as effective as other weight loss medications on the market. Tesofesine, which works as an appetite suppressant, showed that in a study of 161 participants, the average weight loss over a 6 month study was between 3 – 13kg, depending on the dosage of the drug.
Funded by Danish biopharmaceutical company Neurosearch in the hope of using testofesine as a weight loss drug, studies were carried out at University of Copenhagen. Researcher and university MD, Arne Astrup said “Normally the drugs now on the market give you at best a weight loss of 5 kilograms (11 pounds) with diet and exercise. In this study we doubled that weight loss."
Tesofensine, which has previously been studied to treat Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease, showed limited efficacy in treatment for these diseases, but significant weight loss in trial participants who were obese. It works by affecting three different appetite regulatory centres of the brain, in the form of neurotransmitters noradrenaline, dopamine and serotonin.
Breakfast of Slimming Champions
The study compared people on a low carbohydrate diet to those on a diet containing more calories, but with half the total days worth of calories consumed at breakfast.
While the low carbohydrate diet showed faster results than the big breakfast diet, over the 8 month period the big breakfast group lost significantly more weight in the long term. The big breakfast diet group had lost on average 18 kg while the low carbohydrate group had lost 12.8kg by four months, but regained 8.2 kg by the eight month mark.
So the saying ‘breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and dine like a pauper’ may actually hold true for effective long term weight loss.
Lemon Detox Diet Recipe
On the Lemon Detox Diet, dieters are encouraged to have a large glass of water each day with 1 teaspoon of salt, which helps stimulate bowl movements. This can also be substituted with Senna tea (1 teaspoon) in the evening if the salt water drink can not be stomached.
In addition, the actual syrup used for the Lemon Detox Diet is enriched with vitamins. As such if you follow a home recipe it is recommended you have a multi-vitamin or mega multi-vitamin each day.
To follow the diet you are meant to have between 6-10 glasses of the detox drink each day and nothing else (except for the morning salt drink or herbal tea). The detox process is meant to be followed for between 3 – 7 days.
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