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Simple Effective Weight Loss TipsThe key to weight loss is negative energy balance. This means eating less energy (kilojoules/calories) than you expend will equal weight loss. The major contributors in our diet are...
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Jamie Oliver’s fascinating series on how to "eat to save your life" has captured the nation's interest with some wonderful insight into the consequence of poor eating and the remedial action required to improve health and fitness.
The series looks at the science of what food does to your body to
help change the way you live your life. There are a number of dramatic
demonstrations, which includes the autopsy of a 25-stone man (165kg),
who quite literally ate himself to death. Jamie Oliver, Dr Catherine
Spencer Smith (physician and fitness expert), Jane Clarke
(nutritionist) and Dr Gunther von Hagens (anatomist) explore the eating
habits of 18 ordinary people from the British public. Most of them
hardly eat vegetables but generally speaking considered themselves fit
and at the beginning of the show had no real intension of changing
their diet. This was all about to change one they saw how the food they
were eating was affecting their body.