Friday, September 12, 2008

Acupuncture for Weight Loss?


More people are turning to acupuncture weight loss. It is proven that acupuncture does helps to reduce weight effectively without causing any side effects, unlike taking weight loss pills.

Acupuncture stimulates the body to release endorphins, chemicals in the brain that are responsible for positive moods. Thus acupuncture facilitates weight loss
by suppressing the desire for more food
.


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Saturday, September 6, 2008

Low-fat diet study


According to conventional wisdom, the key to weight loss is reducing the amount of fat calories in your diet. Standard diet programs advocate 30 percent of calories from fat, but stringent weight-loss programs may restrict people to as little as 20 percent.

Recent research, however, suggests that the more moderate (and much more satisfying) approach is actually more effective: More people are able to lose weight and keep it off on a moderate-fat diet than on a very low-fat diet. In a study by Harvard Medical School researchers published in the International Journal of Obesity, only one in five participants stuck with a diet that restricted fat intake to 20 percent of its 1,200 to 1,500 daily calories; more than half stayed with the plan (and maintained a significant weight loss) when 35 percent of those calories came from fat.

Assuming the fats are the right kind (mono- and polyunsaturated, from sources like olive, canola, peanut, corn, and soybean oils; avocados, olives, and nuts; and fish), a moderate-fat diet can actually be healthier for your heart than an extremely low-fat regimen. That's the good news from a study at Pennsylvania State University published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.

SOURCE: Sunset Magazine

Thursday, August 28, 2008

Nutrition and Weight Loss

Even though if you gain weight, there is no need to get panic because you may try out one or the other approaches to reduce the body fat. These days weight loss tablets are in demand which challenge a drastic change overnight. A majority of these advertised products are diet pills which might have detrimental effects, however, there are other resource which do not require any intake of "chemicals" into your body. This is by far, the most popular way of getting back your body into shape.