Overweight or obese and wanting to lose weight?  Which diet would be best to follow – a low-fat or low-carbohydrate diet?   If you have a genetic predisposition to do better on one of these diets, what difference would it make?  What role does

Do you see yourself as fat and fit and fine? It may be preferable to than fat and unfit, but definitely not fine if you want to live long. A higher than normal body mass index (BMI) has irrefutably been linked to

Within our bodies lurks a silent, active and extremely dangerous assassin called Inner fat. It goes under a number of aliases – Abdominal fat, or Active fat, or Visceral fat,  as it is known in medical circles.  Visceral fat is quite bulky

When trying to lose weight, there are more diets out there than one can follow in a lifetime!   Sometimes it is not only what you eat, but how much you eat that affects your weight.  Eating too fast can easily lead to

WHY DAILY EXERCISE IS IMPORTANT IN OBESITY  Daily physical activity improves the insulin sensitivity of skeletal muscle  Daily exercise is a very powerful stress reducer (and its free!), which  in turn curbs one’s    appetite.   Stress and obesity go hand in hand  Daily exercise increases

New statistics, recently released, estimate that the number of obese and overweight people in the world has jumped from 860 million in 1980 to around 2.1 billion in 2013.  This means that almost a third of the world is now overweight. Worldwide

A few secrets before we talk food. It is very important to always have water available wherever you are that you can readily sip while working, talking, in meetings, in the car or even listening to others in talks.  This eliminates so called

You all know by now that Health Insight does NOT believe in magic bullets and diet fads. Keep it simple and keep it healthy. 1. Keep a daily food diary – open and transparent to all 2. Discover what works for you