Dieting

Children are truly one of life's greatest joys. However when you have a baby, weight gain and changes in your body occur that can be very distressing and often impossible to correct with diet and exercise alone. While controlling weight gain and working out can improve your body after having children, some body changes do not recover no matter how hard you try. Fortunately a modern Plastic Surgery procedure called the Mommy Makeover can help you get in shape after pregnancy and recover your…

Americans today are amongst the fattest people within a nation. How can this be? Why are Americans struggling with healthy eating habits? Could it that food is just too tempting to pass up? Today, Americans are in an epidemic state for obesity which can lead to other serious diseases such as diabetes, and heart disease. In the article “Don’t blame the eater”, The author, David Zinczenko expresses his argument towards these questions, suggesting that fast food is cheap and easy to obtain. There…

How does the Ketosis Diet works? You have to change your eating habits here. Instead of eating more foods high in carbohydrates, you will have to replace these with foods high in fats. Ketosis Diet will utilize your fats into energy rather than using your glucose thus, filling you with foods high in fats. The vital idea of this diet is consuming more fatty foods less on carbohydrates and proteins and converting stored fats into energy. Ketosis is derived a substance that is formed once you get…

About 50 years ago, a heavily promoted study by physiologist Ancel Keys wrongly convinced the American Heart Association and almost the entire medical world to blame saturated fat for heart disease. Since then, a diet craze has been going through the United States. People are fully dropping full-fat foods and replacing them with low-fat or fat-free. But more recent studies have shown that this is actually creating more health problems rather than solving them. In this article, it describes three…

The basil ganglia is responsible for routine behaviors. A habit is a pattern we create, and act upon. For a habit loop to form we need a cue, a routine and a reward. My habit is making my bed before I leave my house. Seeing my unmade bed is my cue. My routine is making my bed. Consequently, seeing my bed clean is my reward. If I am unable to make my bed I feel incomplete throughout the day. Unconsciously, I feel as if I had forgotten something. In general cleaning is something I do automatically…

In my early years, about the end of middle school, I developed an eating disorder. I had anorexia along with binging and purging. My eating disorder got worse as I completed High school and began college. My parents sent me too different therapists and psychiatrists in the beginning. When it was clear that therapy and medication alone was not helping me, in 1988 my parents admitted me into a 90 day inpatient treatment program at Ana Kaseman. During this stay I was finally given tools to…

Introduction What is the problem with obesity? It is the current most common nutritional disorder in our pets today. One third of American pets are considered to be obese. While the trend shows, it is more common for dogs to be obese, the rate at which cats are said to be obese is as high as 52% in the pet population (Miller). Obesity is a result of energy intake exceeding energy expenditure with the accumulation of excessive amounts of adipose tissue in the body (Butterwick, 2272S; Miller, 16)…

The study which was presented in the article looked at the hypolipemic effect of garcinia cambogia in obese women. Garcinia cambogia is a citrus fruit that is commonly known in Southeast Asia. In the past few years the fruit and its extract has captured the public attention, and some people consider it to be an effective weight loss supplement. The study which was published as an online article in 2013 was conducted on obese women in Novo Hamburgo, Brazil. It was a randomised control trail study…

Leptin, a hormone found in the human body, an essential part of daily life. Leptin is a hormone that regulates hunger levels with the pair hormone ghrelin. A lack of sensitivity to leptin is what causes the problem of obesity. Obesity is a problem due to over production of body fat that can lead to major health risks and even potentially death. Diabetes type two can be a developed due to obesity. Repercussions of diabetes may be heart conditions, obstructive sleep apnea, certain types of…

Honey is a natural antibacterial remedy. It strengthens the immune systems and speeds up the healing process.Lemon juice contains a very high amount of vitamin C, which also promotes healing and strengthens the immune system. Together these two are excellent at fighting the common cold, but there is speculation that they can do even more. This woman from Australia, Crystal Davis, made a decision to test this theory and started drinking honey-lemon water each day for a whole year. She discovered…