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05 5th, 2008

Many of us are afflicted with being overweight or obese. Everyone wants to lose weight for either aesthetic purposes or for health reasons. However, dieting and eating food the size of a matchbox appeals to no one. Now, you may be hopeful from the title that perhaps there is a way to lose weight easily. But you must understand that there are no magical cures when it comes to losing weight. If you think that you can lose weight just by popping a pill, then you will be sadly mistaken. However, there are ways to subtly lose weight without using extreme dieting techniques or starving yourself.

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Obesity and its cure

Author: admin
03 15th, 2008

Obesity is spreading at a rapid pace all over the globe and the day is not far when it may become a global epidemic. The dramatic increase of this disease is occurring in both children and adults. Obesity is a serious problem and does not come alone. It indicates the arrival of a host of other side effects among obese people such as cardiovascular disease, hypertension, dyslipidaemia, stroke, Type 2 diabetes mellitus, breathing disorders including obstructive sleep apnoea and obesity hypoventilation syndrome, osteoarthritis, gallstone formation and the list is endless. A list of side effects in women due to obesity includes increased infertility, a higher risk of obstetric complications, which strongly relate to the polycystic ovarian syndrome. Some recent evidence from epidemiologic studies also adds to this list with diseases like postmenopausal breast cancer, and cancers of the colon, endometrium, and pancreas.

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02 29th, 2008

Exercise: This is always the number one way to get rid of the excess fat in your stomach area. Always use cardio type of exercise to loose fat and not doing sit ups vigorously. Exercising also helps your body to maintain a higher metabolic rate which burn fat faster. Also simple exercise like taking the effort to walk and move around everyday also helps.

Here are a few simple things which you can do in order to perform an exercise:

1. Gardening;
2. Take the effort to wash your car;
3. Use the stairs in case of the lift or parking further away so that you can take a walk to office instead.

Diet: It is always important to remember that you should never starve yourself! But choose the type of foods are you consuming in your diet. It would help if you consume high fiber food which has very low calorie – fills your stomach while you consume little or rather no calorie at all. Also consume low-fat protein foods like lean meat, peel off the skin on the chicken before you eat and low-fat dairy products.

Regulate your meal: Count your calories! Think before you consume the food and never eat a huge meal – break it down to smaller ones so that you can eat more often but in smaller and lesser caloric food.