Changing old habits is hard. And if you manage to get rid of an old habit, the chance of bumping into it again is pretty high. If changing old habits was easy, we would never be able to recognize our old friends. This resiliency of old habits is what makes weight loss so hard. The […]

Everybody knows virgin olive oil is good. Actually it’s not only good, it’s great. It’s packed full with vitamins and healthy fats for your body and joints. A Mediterranean diet is very popular, healthy and yummy. When you’ve got both combined, you have a recipe for a healthy body and life. But now researchers have […]

If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model. Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush.~Dawn French A long time ago being a little plumper was very sexy. That was the beauty standard. If you look at Rubens pictures and of other painters around […]

The older you get, the tougher it is to lose weight, because by then your body and your fat are really good friends.~Author unknown Many older overweight people believe it is too late to lose weight. They have been fat for so long that losing weight seems like a distant dream. It seems so impossible […]

Studies show that by measuring neck circumference doctors can better determine if a child is obese or overweight. The new method gained the attention of researchers when confronted by the problematic results used in spotting childhood obesity by calculating the kid’s BMI ( Body mass index). The problems arise because children are still growing and […]

Over the past year obesity rates in 28 US states have increased proving that Americans are still getting fatter and fatter. Executive director for the Trust for America’s Health, Jeff Lewis confirmed that "More than two-thirds of states now have adult obesity rates above 25 percent," Proving that the obesity epidemic is on the rise […]

A study performed on 401,215 subjects from Hong Kong, China, Taiwan, Japan, Singapore, New Zealand, Thailand, Australia and South Korea showed that obesity health risks are cancer causes. For some time now obesity has been regarded as a health risk and in the west it has been viewed as a cancer cause, but there haven’t […]

Studies published in the May 10TH issue of Archives of Internal medicine show that eating a regular amount of nuts per day as a snack, preferably replacing other shows has a significant effect on regulating blood sugar levels. In an effort to explain this phenomena, further studies using a carefully controlled and selected group of […]

Inside some of us is a thin person struggling to get out, but they can usually be sedated with a few pieces of chocolate cake.~Author Unknown Each overweight person thinks at least once per day about losing weight fast. Daydreaming about a thinner you is so pleasant and depressing at the same time. Realizing how […]

It seems that low calorie diets don’t only help you lose weight. A recent 6 month study made by the Agricultural Research Service proved that a low calorie diet helps strengthen the immune system. The volunteers who followed the low calorie diet had a better immune response at the end of the study. For the […]