Waist Size
INSIGHTS INTO THE SWEET DANGER OF SUGAR
It is hard to resist the instant gratification of a sweet tooth when all kinds of sweet temptations are readily available. Unfortunately, too much of a good (sweet) thing can be bad for the body’s chemistry. Harvard Medical School talks about “the sweet danger of...
THE SIGNIFICANCE OF GENETIC MAKEUP, INSULIN SENSITIVITY AND TYPE OF DIET ON WEIGHT LOSS
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 your level of insulin...
Higher BMI Linked To Earlier Death
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 premature death, in a large international study that...
Visceral, inner fat, the silent assassin !
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 and hides out of reach, deep...
The 80 percent eating habit
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 overeating. A very simple eating practice...
PRACTICAL TIPS ON BEATING OBESITY
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...
LIFESTYLE INTERVENTION FOR CHILDREN WITH A WEIGHT PROBLEM
Prof Robert H Lustig, a pediatric endocrinologist, at the University of California, has the following advice for parents of / and overweight children: Get rid of all sugared liquids – only water and milk Eat your carbohydrates with fiber Wait 20 minutes before second...
LATEST SA STATISTICS ARE ALARMING!
South Africa presently ranks amongst the world’s top 20 fattest countries, and SA is the fattest country in sub-Saharan Africa! Seven out of every ten women in SA are overweight (BMI above 25), with four of these seven being obese, implying their BMI is over 30 (BMI =...
OBESITY RATES SOARING
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 prevalence of obesity...
SECRETS FOR LOSING WEIGHT
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 "throat food" - food that...