Going Yoga way to fight Obesity 

  » The best asanas for obesity are the Pawanamuktasana series for the digestive system which help to remove extra fat from the abdomen, hips and thighs, and activate the energy in the lower pranic centers. Read on....

Boosting Serotonin the Natural Way

  » With a lot being talked about supplements to boost serotonin level in the body, there is an earnest need to understand it's role and look out for natural ways to enhance serotonin level in the body.

Top 10 Foods to Watch Out in 2012

  » Hunger is a serious issue number of people face all over the world. It hardly matters whether you are underweight or overweight, the time when the blood glucose level drops the body goes into an alarming state of hunger.

Top 10 foods to fill you up and fight hunger

  » It's normal to feel hungry when you start a new exercise regime or you increase your exercise frequency or intensity. You're burning more calories, so your body needs to take more in.

Top 10 Triggers for Over-eating
  » Most of us are overeating for a hundred different reasons. We are eating due to stress, irritation and frustration. It may be worry or overwork. Read on.....

Gastric Banding: not a permanent solution for "obesity"

  » Gastric band surgery involves fitting a band near the top of the stomach, restricting the amount of food that can move down into the lower part. The top part of the stomach fills up quickly, making the patient feel full. According to Susan Ringwood, chief executive of eating disorder charity Beat: ‘Having a gastric band fitted is a very serious operation that has long-term, permanent consequences, yet we know young people are not always being given this information and that is very concerning.’

Loving Yourself: a Key Element in Fitness Formula

  » According to a new European study, which was a collaboration between researchers from Portugal and Wales, it was discovered that overweight and obese women aged between 25 and 50 overcame emotional (comfort) eating habits and lost more weight when they were helped to love and accept themselves. More than 200 women, who had no other health concerns and were free of medication, participated in the study.

The Slim Capsule: a Space-age Diet Solution

  » The Slim Capsule is a dry heat sauna bed where your head stays out in the cool air with a fan blowing on it. The bed is contoured like your body and vibrates to give you a massage. Cellulite creams are put on the body and you can either wear a plastic type sweat suit or one that's made of a more transparent cloth.

Top 10 to Tip the Scale in Your Favor

  » Bringing your fat intake to a healthy level can work wonders for your waistline. But there’s a lot more you can do to peel off those extra pounds and keep them off for good. The following strategies will help you whip your eating habits into shape and make you a weight-loss winner.

EOSS: Evaluating Need for Surgical Management of Obesity

  » Dr. Arya Sharma, an obesity expert from the University of Alberta, has developed a new classification system to help doctors assess and treat obese patients (published on 16 Aug 2011/medicalnewstoday.com). If proven successful, this system would be used in tandem with the BMI measurement to help identify the health differences between people with similar BMIs. Read on.....

Top Teenage Obesity on Rise: Time to Take Action

  » Doctors recommend consistent exercise in combination with healthy eating as the best way for growing females to lose weight safely and keep it off. Besides, gaining control over the body at a younger age helps in future years when losing extra weight gets tougher. Read on.....

Top 10 Answers on dieting and weight loss diets

  » Forget everything you've been told about dieting and weight loss diets Because if you want to lose weight and change your life you must change the way you think about dieting. Read on.....

Top 10  Towards A Leaner Tummy

  » Far too many women spend hours trying to tighten that tummy, only to see the same old pudgy pooch day after day. A few of us have been blessed with great tummies! For most of us, however, it takes a lot of hard work to obtain and maintain a tummy worthy of being shown off in a swimsuit. Read on.....

Relationship with food: a rolling factor in weight loss 

  » We all have relationships: with our parents, children, partners, and co-workers. We have also seen that, for better or worse, we have a relationship with our food. To have a healthy relationship with food means that one is able to eat for the reasons of physiological rather than emotional hunger and to stop eating at a point when the body and mind are truly satisfied. Read on....

Burning extra 100 calories 

  » The upward trend in the number of overweight women is caused, on average, by an imbalance of only 100 extra calories per day. Eliminating this 100-calorie imbalance by eating a bit less and getting a bit more physical activity each day may hold the line on weight gain for many women. This can be accomplished in an almost unlimited number of ways. Read on....

Stress: a factor in abdominal weight gain 

  » Stress can affect virtually any part of the body and produce physical, mental and emotional symptoms including allergies, dizziness, headache, heart palpitations, environmental sensitivity, impaired coordination, impaired immunity and weight gain. Read on....

Beta-blockers: dampening the body's ability to burn fat

Visceral Fat: A major health concern in Postmenopausal Women

  » Body fat comes in two varieties. There’s subcutaneous fat, a noticeable layer of fat that lies just below the skin, and then there’s visceral fat, which is buried beneath the muscles. Visceral fat is the more worrisome variety because it surrounds vital organs and is metabolized by the liver, which turns it into blood cholesterol. Read on....

Top 10 to keep a check while eating out

  » With Christmas and new year gearing up its time to party again, it's time again to keep a watch on what goes into your stomach so that you are left with no regrets. It's clear that the way to be thin and still have some joie with our meals is to adopt a more traditional, and worldly, way of dining.

Waist Size: a predictor of your health status

  » Storing excess fat around the waist poses a significant health risk, even in people not considered to be overweight or obese. The doctors should measure a patient's waistline and their hips as well as their body mass index as part of standard health checks.

Eating late and fast: contributing factors in obesity

  » Late-night snackers and fast- eaters are more likely to gain weight. For those people who work night time hours or who wake in the middle of the night to enjoy a midnight snack, this means that you are more likely to become overweight or obese based on your habits alone.

Fighting Genetic Predisposition to Obesity
  » Obesity tends to run in families, suggesting that it may have a genetic cause. However, family members share not only genes but also diet and lifestyle habits that may contribute to obesity. Separating these lifestyle factors from genetic ones is often difficult. Still, growing evidence points to heredity as a strong determining factor of obesity.

Top 10 Contributing Factors to Obesity
  » Although you cannot change your genetic makeup, you can change your eating habits and levels of activity.  Read on.....

Yoga Asanas for Reducing Abdominal Fat

  » The most dangerous fat lies around the organs, deep within the belly. The fat in the abdominal area functions differently than fat elsewhere in the body. It has a greater blood supply as well as more receptors for cortisol, a stress hormone. With high stress and, consequently, high cortisol levels, more fat is deposited in the abdominal area.

Meal Timing: a contributing factor in obesity epidemic.
  » A Northwestern University study has found that eating at irregular times -- the equivalent of the middle of the night for humans, when the body wants to sleep -- influences weight gain. The regulation of energy by the body's circadian rhythms may play a significant role.

Easy Ways to Trim down the fat
  » Fat provides twice as many calories as protein or carbohydrates. The most effective way of cutting the calories in your diet is therefore simple. It is to use low-fat ingredients, such as white fish and chicken, and low-fat alternatives wherever possible, such as reduced-fat cheese and skimmed milk.

Adenovirus-36: a contributing factor in Obesity

  » Scientists have presented a new study showing infection with the adenovirus-36 (Ad-36) virus, long recognized as a cause of respiratory and eye infections in humans, may be a contributing factor.

Obesity - Cancer Link Uncovered

  » The World Cancer Research Fund found a link to obesity in six types of cancers. Women who were overweight were four times more likely to develop cancer of the uterine lining while obesity boosts the risk by six-fold. Obese women also are at greater risk of breast and colon cancer.

Consistency: key to successful Weightloss

  » Have you ever accomplished anything great with an inconsistent effort? Unless failure is considered a great achievement, you probably haven't. You must exercise consistently to get the results you want! It blows my mind how many people don't even try to be consistent with their diet and exercise programs and complain about not seeing results.

Obesity: a risk factor for Asthma

  » Obesity has been rapidly increasing in prevalence over the past two decades—in children as well as in adults. Although obesity is a recognized risk factor for type 2 diabetes mellitus, hypertension, atherosclerosis, and some forms of cancer, evidence suggests that obesity may also contribute to or even cause asthma.

Top 10 to enhance your Fat-Loss process

  » The best posture resembles a marionette with a string attached to the top of the head. Imagine being tugged gently upward by the string. In other words, try to keep the top of your head on the ceiling. Automatically this straightens out the spine and tightens the abdominal muscles. Practice sitting tall, standing tall, and walking tall.

Opting for Slimline Shopping

  » Bad planning can be the downfall of many diets, so make sure your fridge and store cupboards are stocked with a variety of a good nutritious meal or snack. Foods can be divided into five main groups – you need to eat some food from each of the groups each day – but the key to a healthy diet is getting the balance right.

Chewing gum: an easy tool for weight management

  » Chewing on a piece of sugarless gum can help cleanse the mouth of bacteria, satisfy a sweet tooth, and reduce the urge to eat. Keep a pack of sugarless gum handy. It may help reduce cravings and control appetite.

Low pregnancy weight gain safe for obese women

  » Obese women can gain little or no weight during pregnancy and even lose a few pounds without harming their babies, new research suggests.

Obesity and fertility

  » Obese women are known to have more difficulty becoming pregnant and also are more likely to miscarry. Excess weight could exert its effects either by acting on the ovaries, which produce eggs, or on the endometrium, where the fertilized egg implants.

Maternal Obesity Vs. Birth defects

  » Women who are obese when they conceive are more likely to have babies with birth defects than are mothers of normal weight, a US study suggests. For many types of birth defects, including spina bifida, heart, limb and genital defects, mothers were between 1.3 and 2.1-fold more likely to have been obese.

Food craving: understanding body signals

  » Food cravings mean that the body has its signals mixed up. When we are exhausted or blue, we have low blood sugar and/or low serotonin, and the body signals the brain that it needs a pick-me-up. This signal causes a sugar craving or carbohydrate craving.

Body Fat and Women

  » Women tend to have more body fat than men—about five percent more. By nature, a woman's body is developed to protect her and a potential fetus. As a result, women have more enzymes for storing fat and fewer enzymes for burning fat. Additionally, the estrogen women have activates fat storing enzymes and causes them to multiply.

Calorie Density: key to losing weight

  » A year-long clinical trial by Penn State researchers shows that diets focusing on foods that are low in calorie density can promote healthy weight loss while helping people to control hunger.

High-Carb, Vegan Diet Causes Major Weight Loss

  » A low-fat, plant-based diet is more effective at helping women lose weight and improving insulin sensitivity than an omnivorous diet, shows a new study appearing in the September issue of The American Journal of Medicine.

Top 10 Healthiest Snacks : You Can Just Keep on Eating
  » Grazing can also keep your metabolism, or calorie-burning mechanism, running high.  Your body uses calories when you eat and digest food.  Read on.....

Tips for Preventing Holiday Weight Gain

  » Holidays provide a good excuse for overindulgence for more than a 60 day period of time to many women. A new study conducted by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) shows that extra weight gained during the holidays accumulates through the years and may be a major contributor to obesity in later life.

Foods for Managing Obesity

  » Foods that are low in fat and release energy into the bloodstream slowly and steadily are the most useful for obese people trying to lose weight. Read on....

Tummy Flatteners

  » The hundreds of exercises and complicated pieces of equipment that claim to ‘iron out’ your stomach can get confusing-as can doing millions of exercises and not seeing any results. Read on to find out the tummy-flatteners that really work.

Vertical Gastrectomy most effective for morbid obesity

  » According to a year long study, while all types of obesity-related surgery are  risky and a last option for most obese people, particularly older patients, vertical gastrectomy is preferred over three other methods (especially for those over 50).

Very Low Calorie Diet for obesity
  » A liquid based diet that is severely restrictive in energy with an intake of about 800 calories or less per day is considered a very low calorie diet. These diets are an alternative method that moderately to severely obese people may consider for significant, short-term weight loss. Such a diet are recommended  for a relatively short term (3-6 months) and are to be followed only under medical supervision. Read on...

Obesity Linked to Kidney Stones

  » Obesity and weight gain may increase the risk of kidney stone formation, according to a new study from Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston. These findings suggest that developing ways to avoid holiday weight gain may be extremely important for preventing obesity and the diseases associated with it. Read on....

Too Fat? Pop a Pill.
  »  Can a pill really make you lose your appetite and turn your body into a calorie-burning machine? Read on....

First Federal Obesity Clinical Guidelines Released
  » The guidelines are based on the most extensive review of the scientific evidence on overweight and obesity conducted to date.

Top 10 Obesity Related Health Hazards  
  » It's much easier to lose 20 pounds than 50 and it's easier to keep the weight off over the long term if the weight loss is reasonable. Read on.....

Top 10 To THIGH TRIMMERS
  » A fitness program composed of thigh trimmers can help you posses elongated thigh. Read on.....