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One Step At A Time

Most people embarking on a diet set a goal weight, after which they intend to indulge in a little retail therapy and buy clothes in their new and improved size. While this may seem like a good motivational factor, in fact it can sometimes have the opposite effect – especially when that target weight is [...]

 

Herbal Tea Gets The Green Light

Like coffee, green tea will induce some amount of thermogenesis in the human body through its caffeine content. No-one will drink coffee for its weight-loss possibilities, though, partially because the average coffee drinker will add sugar and/or milk and partially because it’s such an established part of many people’s day anyway. From a scientific point [...]

The GI Diet – Do You Want To Be Fighting Fit?

Countless people, no doubt, have heard of the GI diet and assumed it has something to do with GI Joe, the fictitious American soldier of television cartoon fame – or less flippantly but still inaccurately they imagine it has some connection with the American troops of World War II, where the abbreviation “GI” stands for [...]

The Atkins Diet – Curb The Carbs And Watch Weight Fall Off

The early part of the current millennium saw a huge, and fairly short-lived, obsession with “low-carb” diets based on the principle that the real enemy in the war on weight gain was carbohydrates. The most famous of these diets, and the most lucrative for its representatives, was the Atkins diet. If someone visited your [...]

Go Green For Weight Loss

It is accepted that in order to lose a pound over a week of dieting, the dieter must cut down their calorie intake by 3500 calories. This sounds like a lot, even when you break it down over the course of seven days – 500 calories a day amounts to a full meal in [...]