A great deal of today’s people are looking for effective diet plans and other weight management techniques which would help them shed extra pounds and decrease the risks of many serious diseases. However, for some people their weight reduction efforts are sometimes put to just simple cut on fats or carbs, and even some share of proteins. Is this strategy effective? According to the findings of a latest study, calorie counting can be a key point, but it seems like it does not matter much where the calories come from. Therefore, simple calorie counting and limiting our daily calorie consumption regardless of their source can be effective enough to put off weight. Read the rest of this entry »

Despite the fact that there are a great deal of very effective weight management techniques created and available for everyone who need to get rid of extra pounds, still there are a large number of people in the modern world who suffer from being overweight and having increased risks of many serious diseases like heart attack, atherosclerosis, type 2 diabetes, and so forth. Scores of studies and researches are being carried out in order to help us maintain a normal body weight, but still many of us fail to make efforts, refuse to watch what they eat and at all times look for the easiest ways to reduce their BMI. Read the rest of this entry »

You are trying to put off weight by following a healthy diet and watching what you eat, as well as doing exercises, but those nasty extra pounds do not want to disappear at no means. You can not achieve success for weeks, and can not understand what can be the reason of that. Does it sound familiar to you? What if obesity is linked to certain processes or changes in our brain?  Recently, a new and very interesting theory was created by a group of American scientists who are suggesting that overweight people have some type of inflammation and even a type of brain scarring in certain area which controls their body mass. That is why it is so very hard to shed pounds and keep them off. Read the rest of this entry »

Not only our feelings and emotions, but also what we eat has a great influence on our mood and our mental health. Numerous studies have shown that any type of diet rich in sugar, fat and processed foods is linked to being happier. In particular, those people who are depressed or stressed out tend to consume more chocolate or cakes, thinking that positive emotions from eating will make them feel happier. Therefore, according to Drew Ramsey, a leading specialist and a psychiatrist at Columbia University, eating the right foods should be considered ’the foundation of good mental health‘. Read the rest of this entry »

Though the problem of overweight and obesity still remains topical in today’s society, more and more people report about their total success in their fight against extra weight. These are the results of a massive informational and education campaign unfolded in the world’s mass media for the last decade. A great deal of articles, books, scientific studies and researchers were published in order to increase public concern and attract maximum attention to this issue. Nowadays, there are many effective and healthy weight management techniques and strategies were created and became available for everyone who needs to shed some pounds and decrease the risks of harmful side effects of being overweight. Read the rest of this entry »

Obesity prevention is a number one concern of modern health care specialists, who are looking for new effective ways to aid all of us in weight loss, weight management and obesity prevention. According to the latest findings, such practice as letting babies lie on their tummies after feeding can substantially lower the chances to have such problem as obesity. Therefore, young moms who make their babies lie on their tummies after breastfeeding can assist in making their children more fit and healthy in their adult years. Read the rest of this entry »

The findings of a very interesting study carried out by an international group of specialists at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, leaded by Doctors Giulio Disanto, Sreeram V. Ramagopalan and Lahiru Handunnetthi, were recently published in the British Journal of Psychiatry. The scientists are convinced that those people who were born in March, April or May, have higher chanced to develop such common eating disorder as Anorexia Nervosa. Read the rest of this entry »