Weight loss is a hot topic among people today, especially considering the fact that more than half of us are overweight. As we get older we often get busier, and before we know it, find ourselves in the prime of our lives and packing a few extra pounds. With so little extra time in our lives it is impractical to join the latest diet fad or commit to sweating in the gym for hours at a time. Are we...

Diet is being recognized as the most important single factor for promoting either health or disease. Sir Robert Mc Carrison, the greatest of food scientists, who has conducted research on the problem of nutrition in India says "the right kind of food is the most important single factor in promotion of health ; and the wrong kind of food is the most important single factor in the promotion of...

"I’m so psyched and upset by remarks from people" lamented Mrs. Renu Jain "that it has become impossible for me to keep up my lost weight. My friends and well-wishers say that my body has sagged, I look older than my age. They say that I look pale and sick and that I have lost the beauty and charm I had when I used to weight seventy-six kilos. They insist that I should gain back my...

Never say diet. Come eat and live with me. This intelligent and practical way of eating is not a fad diet. Instead it is a sensible diet based on medical evidence and scientific well balanced nutrition. Follow this sensible diet designed in a way from which the body can derive the fullest nourishment and benefit, to assure good health as well as permanent weight loss.

Strictly speaking, fibre is not a food element. Fibre is generally divided into two categories : the less digestible bran fibre from grains and the more digestible ‘cellulose’, fibre from fruits and vegetables. Cellulose forms the framework of fibres of plant and the walls of vegetable cells. The cellulose or food fibre in fruits and vegetables can be broken down to release nutrients, especially...

Vitamins are substances of relatively simple chemical structure, no more mysterious than an Aspirin tablet or a teaspoon of sodium bicarbonate. The chemist can draw a very accurate picture of a vitamin molecule. Yet experts have great difficulty in defining vitamins as a group.

Protein is a word of Greek origin, meaning "primal life substance." Your body is a collection of millions of microscopic cells and each cell contains chemicals, which must have protein, raw materials upon which its life and therefore yours, depends.

Food is the most important single factor in connection with attainment and maintenance of health. Every drop of blood in the body is conditioned by the food we eat and it is blood that every tissue, every organ, every gland, and indeed every function of the body fundamentally depends on. The function of food is to supply the body with the materials necessary for the growth, maintenance, repair and...

The basic idea of a slimming centre or a weight loss centre is to scientifically help an obese person to trim excess fat off. What should otherwise have place under the banner of medical profession, has now become a multimillion rupee business.

You cannot exercise and lose weight. Exercise will not reduce you. According to Dr. O.P. Kapoor, Honorary Professor of Medicine J.J. Group of Hospitals Bombay " Routine exercises do not lead to weight loss, only very heavy exercises lead to weight loss. But heavy exercises can prove dangerous in an obese person whose body is already over burdened with excess weight. Doctors constantly warn...

The operation you have heard of is a surgical procedure called Liposuction. Liposuction is a method by which the surgeon, loosens and removes fat from any area of the body using metal tubes connected to a suction machine. It was done by a fifty-five-year-old Parisian doctor, Dr. Genard Illouz in 1977.

To a good many obese people, life is a constant battle of the bulge. Obese people are easy prey to all sorts of fads, gimmicks and gadgets. Most obese persons out of consideration for their health and their families would rather not weigh too much, and with all the best intentions they become victims of miracle cures and "health culture" business which thrives on calisthenics,...

The Amphetamine group of drugs have a powerful stimulant action on the central nervous system. The drug postpones sleepiness and fatigue, stimulates mental and physical activity energy expenditure and well-being. It also diminishes appetite when taken before meals. And this effect is sought after to keep the reduce satisfied with less quantity of food.

It is a matter of fact that dieting doesn’t work. It never has , and it never will. The sheer number should prove this to you. How many diets have there been over the last twenty years? Fifty ?One hundred? Magazine readers are constantly plagued by the promise on the cover "to take off 5 kilos in two weeks" with tips or with one or another diet made up to sell magazines. If they really...

According to many aunts and grandmothers, lemon juice will help you lose weight. They can’t tell why they believe this, possibly because they heard it from someone, somewhere. The scientific evidence is that the vitamin C in lemon juice helps repair worn out tissue but does not destroy fat. Lemon juice may be healthful as a source of nutrients, but it is valueless as a treatment for obesity. Lemon...