Losing weight is never easy, there are so many products on the market to help with slimming, well being and muscle tone but which is which? Slimming is the process of weight loss, diets, and exercise, while well being is the quality of your life. Muscle tone is the art of looking after you muscles, there are many ways that this can be done, from going to the local community centre to specialised weight training gyms. One option that many people opt for is Slendertone.
Archive for April, 2009
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Thursday, April 30th, 2009Losing Weight the Crazy Way
Tuesday, April 28th, 2009Losing weight is never easy, and people will try almost anything, to lose weight. Here we look at some of the more outlandish diets (we’ll, which we feel, as outlandish) that people still try … it perhaps it shows the desperation that people suffer from in trying to win the battle with the bulge.
UK Soap Stars Weight Loss Wonders
Monday, April 27th, 2009The recent pictures of US Actress, Lindsay Lohan, has shown the film star teetering above a dangerous level of weight loss for the tormented star. Many are saying that Lohan is unconsciously using her body as a public ‘cry-for-help’. Whatever, Lohan’s reasons, this type of extreme weight loss is neither healthy nor beneficial. As we know celebrities are under extra pressure to look good for the cameras. However, you just have to look at our very own UK soapstar talent to see how our own home-grown talent shines when they undergo a weight loss program.
Oohh LaLa Weight Loss
Friday, April 24th, 2009Its now official, the French women are the slimmest, in-fact in they have the highest number of clinically underweight woman in Western Europe. But only half of them can see this, what do they do so different from the rest of us. A resent survey conducted found that French women set themselves very high standards when it comes to the weight loss battle of the bulge. They exaggerate their weight, and look at themselves as fat, (thought that was the eating disorder ‘bulimia’) but who am I , they constantly stress about their weight but its not just the women in-fact the report also says that the French male is amongst the thinnest in Western Europe also.
Weight Loss - Obesity Hits New Heights
Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009Obesity has increased dramatic in the last 25 years in the UK, it is estimated that around 30,000 people will die this year. By 2010 more than 6.6 million men and 6 million women will be classed as obese, that’s 20% of all men and 25% of all women in the UK. This makes shocking reading. Where did it all start to go wrong?
Causes of Weight Gain
Tuesday, April 21st, 2009Not happy with your weight, fed being told that you should be a size “zero”, its not easy losing weight. There are several external factors that make us overweight. Genes have a major part to play in our body’s make up, they can give us signals that make us think we are hungry all the time, in a medical study it was shown that many genes have been identified that either increase or decrease our appetite. An under active Thyroid, this condition happens when this gland does not produce the hormone that helps with your body’s metabolism, your doctor will advise you on the steps to take for this medical condition, but its worth remembering that once you are on the drug thyroxin it can take up to nine months to feel and see any change in your body.
Positive Weight Loss Thoughts
Thursday, April 16th, 2009Clothes starting to get a bit tight around the middle, having to squeezing into your favourite pair of jeans, friends and family dropping hints that you might be putting on some weight? Well you are not alone, the number of people with weight problems has tripled in resent years. We live in a society where we are constantly being reminded that we are “hungry”, so what can be done to help?
Are Men Better at Dieting Than Women?
Wednesday, April 15th, 2009It’s an age old weight loss myth : Men are better at losing weight than women! But is it true? There have been multiple research papers and books published down through the years that agree to a certain extent that men are bodily better equipped to help shedding the pounds than their female counterparts.
Weight Loss Teenager
Tuesday, April 14th, 2009Plucky teenager, Georgia Davies, 16, from Aberdare in Wales, was so sick of her obese frame she enrolled in a weight loss boarding school in the States. Georgia, had weighed 33st (209kg) before her 7 months US weight loss programme. Now, she has lost an amazing 12 stones and is full of confidence again.
Lose Weight or Lose Your Jobs Nurses Told
Thursday, April 9th, 2009Around 700,000 NHS staff members, including mostly, Midwives, health visitors and nurses have been told to lose weight and shed the excess pounds. Ministers are extremely unhappy that NHS staff that are involved in running weight loss programmes are themselves obese.
