With 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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Do 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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We all love going out for dinner, indulging ourselves in food luxuries such as 16oz steaks, chips, onion rings and don’t forget the chocolate pudding - all great food, if enjoyed now and again. In recent times more and more people have ditched the home made cooked dinner in favour of the takeaway. This has now caused the UK to have the highest percentage of obese people in Europe. With nearly 55% of the population being overweight or obese the cost to the NHS is spiralling out of control, experts predict it could £45billion by the year 2050.

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Losing 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.

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The 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.

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Clothes 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?

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