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How to Stop Binge Eating

Ray Wilkins — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 15:28:43 +0000

When you think of binge eating you normally think of someone who is on a diet and becomes so hungry that they lose control and eat whatever they want without regard to amount, size, or their diet plans. This often happens when frustration sets in because you work hard with little or no results in losing weight.

Atkins Diet May be Beneficial for People with Epilepsy

Ray Wilkins — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 23:37:40 +0000

Imagine that your child with epilepsy could have seizures less frequently, by eating more protein and less carbs. The first comprehensive review of possible dietary treatments of epilepsy has recently been published. Among those dietary regimens is the low-carbohydrate Atkins Diet which has proven successful in suppressing epileptic seizures in a small series of patients. The review, published in Epilepsy Currents, explores the benefits of low-carb, high protein, and other restricted dietary therapies for patients with epilepsy.

Diet Foods for Children May Lead to Obesity

Ray Wilkins — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 23:32:33 +0000

A team of researchers contends that animals learn to connect the taste of food with the amount of caloric energy it provides, and children who consume low-calorie versions of foods that are normally high in calories may develop distorted connections between taste and calorie content, leading them to overeating.

Diet and Lifestyle Critical to Recovery

Ray Wilkins — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 23:23:14 +0000

Diet and lifestyle may play a much more significant role in a person’s ability to respond favourably to certain drugs, including some cancer therapies, than previously understood, say scientists.

Alkaline Diet is Your Elixir

Ray Wilkins — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 20:14:20 +0000

A non adequate diet can disrupt the acid alkaline balance which cause health problem. It can produce acid internal fluids. What can reduce the acid level in the body? An alkalizing diet can reduce the acid level. The PH scale, as it called as power of hydrogen measures the acidity of a solution. It shows how the hydrogen acts and the scale is logarithmic, with other words, a low value indicates high acidity.

Meal Replacements Aid Weight Loss

Ray Wilkins — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 17:17:14 +0000

Meal replacements in a medically supervised weight loss program are successful in facilitating weight loss, according to a new study conducted at the University of Kentucky. The study appears in the August 2009 issue of the Journal of the American Dietetic Association.

Increased Food Intake Alone Explains the Obesity in the States

Ray Wilkins — Sun, 10 May 2009 06:15:42 +0000

A New research that uses an innovative approach to study, for the first time, the relative contributions of food and exercise habits to the development of the obesity epidemic has concluded that the rise in obesity in the United States since the 1970s was virtually all due to increased energy intake.

Water: the Lifeblood of Your Body

Ray Wilkins — Sun, 10 May 2009 05:28:42 +0000

Water is certainly the most important part of our body and livelihood. It has been found that the human body can go for weeks without any food at all but may never survive more than three days without water.

Top Tips to Staying Fit for Women

Ray Wilkins — Sun, 10 May 2009 05:21:20 +0000

Being a woman means that you have to take that extra mile when it comes to taking care of yourself. And in most instances this is easier said than done because of the hectic lives that women lead trying to juggle the kids, husband, household chores and a career. However, you can still achieve this by following simple steps.

What is in a Weight Loss Diet Pill?

Ray Wilkins — Sat, 09 May 2009 02:37:41 +0000

Many of us today when we think of the need of weight loss in our life we begin to think of the various strenuous exercises and activities. We need no to sweat at all to lose that much calories that we always wanted to lose. The invention of the weight loss diet pill has certainly made it easy for most people to lose weight without having to work that much at all.