by baLooT on July 14, 2008
Caralluma fimbriata is a succulent plant, in the cactus family, that has been used as a natural appetite suppressant in India for centuries. It’s a new arrival in the family of cactii and succulent plants that are becoming increasingly popular for their appetite suppressant, and weight loss properties, as well as their ability to lower blood sugar.
Supplements made from the popular hoodia gordonii cactus from the Kalahari Desert in Africa, are, for example, growing in popularity and usage in the U.S. and Europe.Like hoodia, caralluma fimbriata has been used to suppress appetite, and as a portable food for hunting. It is used to suppress hunger and appetite, and enhance endurance throughout India. It is also sometimes considered a “famine food,” used during periods of famine to suppress appetite.
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by baLooT on June 26, 2008
When you are planning for your wedding, it seems like your whole life moves very fast at times, and extreme slow at other times. The same holds true for when someone tries to lose weight for their wedding day. While wedding day weight loss is a common thing, as most people want to look as fabulous as possible on their special day, it should be done in a very natural way. Many weddings are marked by the wedding party trying to squeeze into small dresses to look as “good” as they think they can look. But, ofttimes, this is done at an expense to their bodies and overall well-being. Weight loss should never be a rush-rush thing. It should happen as naturally as possible.
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Natural weight loss is a much safer and healthier way to lose weight for your wedding day, or any day. Losing weight does not take all types of new drugs or expensive equipment. In fact, being dependent on such things can actually be a hindrance for long-term weight loss success.
Here are a few ways to make your wedding day weight loss goals happen naturally:
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by baLooT on June 23, 2008
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If you have been doing the Medifast 5 & 1 plan for any length of time, you realize exactly how effective it can be for weight loss. As a matter of fact, many people who were unable to lose weight through conventional means have finally found a method that they can stick with and that will take the weight off quickly and permanently. That doesn’t mean, however, that sticking with the diet and making the most of it is not difficult from time to time. Here are some tips for Medifast weight loss that will help you along the way.
Mix and Match your Medifast Foods
The first thing that you should realize is that you have a lot of different options whenever it comes to the types of food that are available for Medifast users. You should make sure that you enjoy the different types of Medifast meals so you can keep yourself from getting bored. Enjoy a shake in the morning, have some soup for lunch and mix up a pudding snack or have a bar or two, and you will find that you rarely ever get tired of eating this way. And don’t forget, you can add sugar-free syrups to the shakes to give them a new flavor.
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by baLooT on May 6, 2008
These infomercials are largely aimed at tricking the public to believe that they can “spot reduce” their stomach by doing a few ab exercises each day.
You’ve seen the infomercials – so you know what we’re talking about.
These infomercials usually have a bunch of super-healthy fitness models walking around with perfect abs — and they tell you that they owe their great looking abs to whatever “ab machine” that they’re trying to sell to you.
These fitness models usually have a “smile” on their face as they demonstrate the ab machine for you, and they do this so that you’ll believe that it’s “fun and easy” to use their ab machine.
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by baLooT on May 6, 2008
Most people believe that calories are the “enemy”, since eating excess calories leads to excess fat, right? That’s why most people believe that the fastest way to lose weight is to cut way back on calories each day.After all, if a dieter is eating 2,500 calories per day and they decide to cut back to 1,500 calories per day – then obviously those extra 1,000 calories have to result in weight loss, right?
Well, actually this is not exactly true.
In fact, if you try to cut your calories too much (via starving yourself and skipping meals) then you’ll quickly reach a dieting “plateau” (a point where the scale refuses to drop any lower no matter how little your are eating).
Firstly, let’s talk about how the average person begins a new diet…
The scenario usually sounds something like this…
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by baLooT on May 6, 2008
A new breakthrough secret is all you now need in order to forever shed countless pounds, stay healthy, and add many years to your life!
A lady doctor from Arizona has blown the lid off the best-kept secret in weight loss ever discovered — and this has the whole diet food and drug industries turned upside down and in nothing less than a torrential uproar.
Her name is Dr Suzanne Gudakunst, and she’s marching to the beat of a different drum.
And no, nothing about her “secret” is difficult — nor does it require that you do something completely out of the ordinary or anything unnatural.
Instead, the Arizonian boasts proudly “…this is something that I caught onto just before 2002 when there was so much research and exploration going around concerning the human colon and digestive system working in harmony with nutritional absorption, and I started doing independent studies just to test things at first … but which I later expanded on after seeing some fantastic results.”
This same woman medical practitioner went on to accurately determine a definitive correlation between harmful plague and parasitic infestations of the human bowel tract, and people suffering chronic obesity — and who despite intense diet and exercise appeared to be unable to lose any weight whatsoever.
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by baLooT on May 5, 2008
With the advent of hoodia (hoodia gordonii to be precise) into the diet pill arena many people have complained that it just doesn’t work for them. However, what has been discovered is that there are many counterfeit pills on the market.
The powder, derived from cactus-like succulent plants grown in South Africa, is sold at more than $200 per kilo. This fact alone has opened the doors to unscrupulous dealers who may produce the real thing at the sampling stage but then replace the genuine with the counterfeit after the deal has been done.
CITES - Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora - now issues resellers certificates to those manufacturers who sell the genuine article. These manufacturers display the certificate on their websites very often along with growers’ licenses to show that the product is genuine.
These licenses and permits display the names of the grower and company. Unfortunately, in the days of super computers, some companies merely copy a genuine certificate and paste it onto their website but with the name of the grower and company deleted. If you see this then you know that you should not buy from this company.
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by baLooT on April 19, 2008
Dieting and workouts are among the most important things in the life of a high-powered star. Because if they don’t look right, they don’t get contracts and they are soon out of the public minds and hearts. Such is life in Hollywood. And just like any place where money and ambition meet, there are a lot of people trying to push this or that idea as the best thing since sliced bread, or something like that. And celebrities many do fall for this stuff, mainly because celebrities are just like the rest of us and have a hard time finding a diet that works.
Since we are all a bit different from each other, there’s no single diet that works the same for everybody, which means that one has to try this or that eating plan in order to find which one is best. And the search can get a bit rough sometimes. Famous model Claudia Schiffer, for instance, is not on any kind of diet. Naturally, she has tried a lot of them and has finally concluded that diets are messing with her metabolism and that she is better off sticking to a three meals per day plan. The meals are rich in vegetables and fruits, which are fast digested by the body, and she tried hard not to resort to snacks during meals. However, she does give in to temptation every now and then and eats a bit of chocolate or some other forbidden food. The crucial thing is not to give in to the temptation of eating a whole box of sweets.
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by baLooT on April 19, 2008
There are diets that work for certain people, there are diets that do not work for certain people and then there are diets that never really work for anybody at all. Dieting is the most popular past time in the Western world and, makes no mistake that this is not a women-only issue. If you are a man and want a lot of women around you, then you have to stay fit. Pessimists would say that a diet is a bunch of foods we don’t like, in too tiny portions for our appetites and we must eat all that at specific times of the day. As nobody really eats this way, nobody can successfully diet and change their life style.
I would say that dieting is, more than anything else, finding a structure. It’s been said that people cannot eat healthy with so many temptations around them and this is why diets don’t really work, but the truth is that way too few diets offer a healthy structure that is both easy to follow and tasty. We cannot eat bland food all our lives and we can only drink this much grapefruit juice before we decide enough it’s enough.
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by baLooT on April 17, 2008
(CBS) Each year, people spend more than $40 billion on products designed to help them slim down. None of them seem to be working very well.
Now along comes hoodia. Never heard of it? Soon it’ll be tripping off your tongue, because hoodia is a natural substance that literally takes your appetite away.
It’s very different from diet stimulants like Ephedra and Phenfen that are now banned because of dangerous side effects. Hoodia doesn’t stimulate at all. Scientists say it fools the brain by making you think you’re full, even if you’ve eaten just a morsel. Correspondent Lesley Stahl reports. [click to continue…]
