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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 [...]

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Skinny Bitch & French Women don’t get fat

These blog posts got lost in the growing posts on this site! Lily1 posted (January 13, 2010 at 11:06 pm) Hi Zoe I am generally interested in nutrition and there were two books I have seen before that I wondered if you had ever come across and if so what your view was: 1. Skinny [...]

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Low Calorie/Low Fat Diets

Low calorie diets are essentially low fat diets. They work on the basis that fat has approximately 9 calories per gram and carbs have approximately 4 and, therefore, if you cut out fat from your diet (or reduce it dramatically) you are automatically reducing your calorie intake. We then have the same problems that we [...]

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Mince Pies – what’s in them?

I stuck a box of Tesco (Finest) (Mini) Mince Pies in the trolley this week and here is what is in them: Mincemeat (40%), wheat flour, butter (15%), sugar, whey powder, salt, raising agents (sodium phosphate, sodium carbonate).The mincemeat contains: sultanas, sugar, apple, glucose syrup, currants, orange peel, sunflower oil, COURVOISIER VS Cognac (contains colour [...]

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Fit & Spry, the new Mr Fry – Daily Mail 1.10.2009

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 [...]

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