A detox diet for weight-loss could be the perfect way of kicking off the extra flab in an easy way. While most people misunderstand and misinterpret what a detox diet is and thus indulge in extreme starvation leading to health complications such as anorexia, dehydration, acidity etc., such an ordeal can be completely avoided if the true meaning of a detox diet can be deciphered. So what is a detox…

Christmas is near and we are all eagerly waiting to make most of the Christmas parties. But, unbeknown to many is the fact that the average Brit consumes more than 4,000 calories on the Christmas Day, which is twice the recommended daily allowance for women and almost equal to the intake of men. Adding calories of work parties and family gatherings on Christmas can only make matters worse. Here are a few…

Do you have unearthly working hours, no time for exercise, lack adequate sleep, work pressure, pressure of peers at work, bad and strained relationships in professional and personal lives, sedentary lifestyle? The result must be in front of you in the form of your weight. Here’s an inspiration for those who hate exercises.

Eating nine meals a day may help cut cholesterol levels, lower blood pressure and encourage weight loss thrashing the age old notion that eating thrice a day makes a person, healthy, wealthy and wise. Researchers from the Imperial College of London compared the diets of more than 2,000 people from the UK, Japan, China and US. It was found that participants who ate more than 6 times a day had…

Consumption of low fat foods might not lead to decreased calories. A snapshot of 12 low-fat, reduced, light weight products revealed that there was little benefit in choosing them over normal products. From all the products that were covered, it was found that the calorie difference between normal products and supposedly ‘low fat products’ was minimal. For example, a Standard McVities Chocolate Digestive Biscuit contained 85 calories while a light…

Qsymia, the new weight loss drug from Vivus Pharmaceuticals, goes on sale today. The anti-obesity drug was approved by Food and Drug Administration in July to help obese and at-risk overweight patients tackle their weight issues. Qsymia was approved last July, a few weeks after FDA approved Belviq, another weight loss drug that is expected to be launched in 2013.

Getting enough sleep time just might be the best diet secret of all time. Adequate sleep along with a recommended mix of diet and exercise is the key factor in reducing obesity as per research experts at Laval University, Quebec. In a commentary produced by the Canadian Medical Association, two obesity researchers argued over the fact that the old formula- Energy in must be lower then energy out- is too…

Sparing thirty minutes from your busy day could be enough to lose weight. According to a new research conducted by a PhD student at the University of Copenhagen, overweight adults can lose weight as effectively in 30 minutes as they would in an hour. In a study published in American Journal of Psychology, moderately overweight men who did heavy exercises for 30 minutes lost 8 pounds on average whereas men…

Is weight loss surgery the only way out for Britain’s obese population of 1.5 million adults classed as morbidly obese? Surgeons say weight loss surgery is the ‘most clinically effective’ treatment and NHS seems to be in agreement as figures show NHS weight loss operations have increased by six times in just five years. However, the government’s opinion differs on this.

Weight loss surgery cuts 10-year risk of getting type 2 diabetes by 80% in obese patients found a group of Swedish researchers. Bariatric surgery or weight loss surgery is already found to be more helpful in reducing risk of heart diseases and death in obese patients than diet and exercise. Lars Sjostrom, MD, PhD, of the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, and his colleagues have shown that weight loss surgery shows…