When we become overweight and obese it is normally down to us eating the wrong foods at the wrong times, this as we know leads to problems with your heart, kidneys and liver along with a host of other serious conditions. However there is one area that is often missed or forgotten when we are discussing weight problems, your teeth.
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Being Obese Stops You Smiling
June 22nd, 2009Eat Healthy - Prevent Cancer
June 11th, 2009“You are what you eat”, “cut down on the burgers, eat more fruit and veg”, that’s what my parents used to say to me. Lets be honest as kids did we ever listen to our parents, that was back many Moons ago. On a serious note the fatty tissue in overweight or obese people may produce more hormones and growth factors than people of healthy weight, and now many doctors and dieticians believe that eating the correct foods not only keeps your weight down but may also help in the prevention of many cancers, including mouth,
bowel, stomach and breast.
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Weight Loss and Online Help
June 4th, 2009Clothes starting to feel tight, feel as if we are eating too much and Summer just around the corner. So making the decision to go on a diet is not an easy one, we think about it for weeks before taking the first steps and tell the one closest to you, whether it be husband, wife or best mate, we are just looking for that little bit of encouragement. So what a ‘kick in the teeth’ when they all do the same thing, laugh, and say “you will never stick to it”.
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Squeezing Into Those Summer Clothes
June 1st, 2009What a great few days we have had, temperature hitting high 70s, Britain was the place to be this weekend, I for one was in a happy mood, the kids were up and playing happily (for once), we had organized a BBQ for family and friends. Saturday morning we were up early, cut the grass, cut the hedge, the women were busy preparing food and everything else, as we cleaned the swimming pool and got it filled.
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Weight Loss Best Foot Forward!
May 29th, 2009With 26 bones, 33 joints and more than 100 tendons, ligaments and muscles per foot its no wonder our feet feel the pressure when we put on a little weight. Our feet are the most used part of our body, an average person walks 115,000 miles that’s enough to walk round the world 4 times. There are many complaints associated with weight gain, our feet seem to be one part of our body that we all neglect.
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Getting in Shape for Summer
May 26th, 2009Want to look great for the Summer, lose the ‘love handles’ or dump the ‘spare tyre’? Well there are several things that can be done to achieve this. Diets are a great way to lose weight but as we all know this takes a lot of will power, something that most of are not to good at keeping. There are many ‘aids’ on the market to aid weight loss, which are also very good when used alongside a controlled diet.
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Tips To Avoid First Week Diet Failure
May 21st, 2009Ever started a diet then gave up after the first week, like the vast majority of people I have, why does this happen? You get ready for the diet ’starting on Monday’, on Sunday night you write down your meals for the week, calorie counting every meal making sure you don’t go over by even 0.5 calorie. You awake on Monday morning have your breakfast, doing well!! So you start to watch the clock “when’s my next meal?” How come when you do a diet you are always hungry? Well I am. Is it because I am on a diet or am I really hungry? Do you know that some foods actually make you feel hungry? There is some interesting facts about food that I didn’t know here are just a few.
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Small Dress Sizes - Weight Loss Incentives
May 19th, 2009Do you know that around 24million pieces of clothing are sitting in woman’s wardrobes that don’t fit them? In a recent survey commissioned by Lloyds pharmacy women admitted to buying at leased three items of clothing that were too small for them in order to lose weight. Does it work or is just a waste of money?
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Diet Meal Replacement Program
May 15th, 2009Fed up with that diet? what about the meal replacement program, these are foods that have a constant calorie count, normally in a bar, shake or powder, which can be mixed with water or milk. These convenient drinks or bars are great when you are in the office or at the gym. A diet meal replacement should usually provide your body with 1200 - 1600Kcal per day. They work by supplying your body with less calories than it actually requires thus using your fat stores. Taken twice a day normally one for breakfast then another for lunch then a calorie controlled meal at night. This then ‘trains’ your body into a proper eating structure.
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Weight Loss Bodywraps
May 12th, 2009Originally used for quick weight loss the body wrap has much more to offer. These modern day Body wraps are designed to hydrate and firm the skin, exfoliate dead skin and relax your muscles.(depending on what wrap you choose). Some say that body wraps will cause you to lose inches off your tum, thighs and arms, this is not specifically true, most weight loss is due to water loss.
