Diet Pills – Part 2 – Carb blockers
I’m going to do a series of short blogs on different diet pills and what they claim to do. They fall into different categories: 1) Fat binders/blockers; 2) Carb blockers; 3) Metabolism boosters; 4) Appetite suppressants; 5) Those that claim to do most of the above and then some! This second blog is on the [...]
Read more »Diet Pills – Part 1 – fat binders/blockers
I’m going to do a series of short blogs on different diet pills and what they claim to do. They fall into different categories: 1) Fat binders/blockers; 2) Carb blockers; 3) Metabolism boosters; 4) Appetite suppressants; 5) Those that claim to do most of the above and then some! This first blog is on the [...]
Read more »Lose Weight New Year’s Resolution: Motivation Tips Video
Here’s a short video with some (hopefully) motivational thoughts, so that you can make this the last time you start a new diet. This time you will stick to it and get there! The three key messages are: 1) Tomorrow never comes, so you must start today. If you keep saying you’ll have another ‘bad’ [...]
Read more »Eating to avoid osteoporosis
Approximately 3 million people in the UK have osteoporosis. A study called “The diagnosis of osteoporosis”, estimated that 15% of women will have osteoporosis by the age of 50, 30% at the age of 70 and 40% at the age of 80. Here are the three most important nutrients for protection against this condition: 1) [...]
Read more »Girls who start slimming aged 10
This was a worrying study done by GirlGuiding UK (involving 1,109 girls) about how young girls feel about their bodies and size. They found that girls as young as 10 are worried about their weight and half of teenagers would consider surgery to change their appearance. This is such a sad indictment about the state [...]
Read more »The girls living on just one meal a day
This was a pretty sobering news story in the press in October. The Exeter based Schools Health Education Unit surveyed 32,000 10-15 year olds. That’s a significant sized study. 26% of girls aged 14-15 admitted eating nothing for breakfast (the most important meal of the day). 20% of 12-13 year old girls had also skipped [...]
Read more »Fit & Spry, the new Mr Fry
Well done Stephen Fry! He was looking fab recently in pictures in the press. Apparently the 52 year old actor has lost 6 stone. He has gone from c. 21 stone (he is 6 ft 5 in) to nearer 15 stones. When asked how he did it, he said he cut out bread, potatoes, sugar [...]
Read more »Dying to lose a stone
This was a really well researched article by Lorraine Fisher on everything from diet pills to liposuction – trying to answer the question – why do bright, successful women risk their lives to drop a dress size? Tragically we all know the answer – we want to be slim more than we want anything else [...]
Read more »40 years of diets and we’re fatter than ever
Sally Ann Voak is the author of 28 diet books and this article is, therefore, billed as a ’startling confession’. It is quite cynical, from someone who has made ’slimming’ her profession since 1971. It concludes: “The problem is that the diet industry doesn’t really want women to be slim, because if we were all [...]
Read more »Why calorie counting makes you fat
I got very excited when I saw this headline. At last, I thought, someone else has realised that calorie counting is the cause of the obesity epidemic and not the cure. But no, the article was about a new report by Dr Geoffrey Livesey, one of a “growing band of scientists” who think we have [...]
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