Weight Loss Keys For Mini Skirt Season

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More and more women are breaking out their Mini Skirts with summer quickly approaching. Registered Dietitian, a weight loss expert, has made available his best rapid fat loss tips so women can look terrific in their Mini skirts.

“Losing weight fast is actually a simple process”, Hunter explained. He went on to say, “But simple is not necessarily easy. There is effort involved.”

The Registered Dietitian with over ten years of experience offers the following three weight loss keys to women for looking sexy in a Mini Skirt:

1) Exercise
Women can lose weight just by following a nutrition plan on its own but very few succeed at it and it takes much longer than when women eat properly and exercise as well. And not just getting on a treadmill for 30 minutes every other day. Though women can lose weight this way it is not the most efficient use of their time. Nor does it maximize the ability to burn calories. Read the rest of this entry »

Forget Weight Loss - Low-Carb Diets May Be Essential to Surviving

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How Your Doctor’s Dietary Ignorance Will Kill You makes no bones about describing the failure of the modern medical industry to live up to its promise of promoting health. In the book, author James E. Carlson, B.S., D.O., M.B.A., J.D., seeks to expose what he feels is the ignorance of a majority of American physicians regarding the dietary habits of their patients, and the stunning and sometimes fatal consequences that result.

Insisting that low-fat, low-cholesterol diets “are not and will never be safe,” Dr. Carlson sets out to correct this error with his expertise on low-carbohydrate dieting. Nine years of clinical experience treating patients suffering from obesity, diabetes, high blood pressure, and other common medical problems have provided him with the inspiration to impart millions of Americans with the knowledge they need to keep themselves healthy and, most importantly, alive.

In lay terms, Dr. Carlson provides biological arguments for why low-carb diets work while low-fat, low-protein diets cause millions of deaths each year - the equivalent of “genocide” in the author’s opinion. Genocide: How Your Doctor’s Dietary Ignorance Will Kill You could be a life changing book for the American population.

For more information or to request a free review copy, members of the press can contact the author at n3ulf007 @ aol.com. Genocide: How Your Doctor’s Dietary Ignorance Will Kill You is available for sale online at Amazon.com, BookSurge.com, and through additional wholesale and retail channels worldwide. Read the rest of this entry »

Considering Weight Loss Surgery? What You Need to Know

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According to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 66 percent of all U.S. adults are overweight or obese. Faced with conditions of heart disease, high blood pressure and diabetes, many Americans are shopping for bariatric surgery to help manage these conditions and, in some cases, cure them.

What should a consumer look for in a bariatric program? Here are five tips from Nick Nicholson, M.D., medical director of weight loss surgery program at Baylor Regional Medical Center at Plano, an American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery (ASMBS) Bariatric Surgery Center of Excellence®.

Take your time choosing a program.
Weight loss surgery is a not a magic bullet but requires life style changes to be effective. A good-quality program will tell you up front about the different options for weight loss surgery and the post-operative work – exercise and changes in diet – required for each option. Weight loss surgery is not an emergency, take time to thoughtfully consider at least two programs.

Be flexible.
Consult with a surgeon or surgeons who perform more than one type of weight loss surgery. As a consumer, you can select gastric bypass, adjustable gastric banding or the gastric sleeve procedure. “One procedure may be more effective for you than another, so explore all options,” urges Dr. Nicholson.

Numbers do matter.
Numerous studies have shown that complication rates from weight loss surgery are highly dependent on the surgeon’s prior experience. Because previous experience is tantamount to success, ask your surgeon how many of each proposed operations he or she has performed.

Chemistry matters.
In many general surgical cases, you have limited interaction with your surgeon. Not so with weight loss surgery. You may see your surgeon at least four or five times in the first year. Be sure that the surgeon and support staff is genuinely interested in you and your success.

Support matters, too.
To succeed, weight loss surgery requires hard work from you. What support can you expect post-surgery? Does the program offer support groups, psychological support, exercise or physical therapy? Are dietitians involved to help you develop better eating habits and food plans? “I frequently tell our patients that 90 percent of their long-term success is in their hands, not mine,” says Dr. Nicholson.

For more information about Baylor Regional Medical Center at Plano, visit http://www.BaylorHealth.com.

Cardio Free Diet: Jim Karas Reveals Secrets to Weight Loss Success at Webinar

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National cardio free diet expert, strength training consultant, personal trainer and author, Jim Karas is scheduled to discuss the benefits of a cardio free diet in a free 70-minute live teleseminar which will be held at 9 p.m. EST/6 p.m. PST on Thursday, April 17, 2008. Karas will reveal secrets of the link between the cardio free diet and weight loss success designed for people who want to spring into action and create lasting results in their fitness and diet programs.

Participants in this informative teleseminar will hear firsthand, from Karas, why running and aerobics may not be as effective as people think. They will explore how the heart and body respond to stress and the relationship between interval training, building lean muscle and burning calories.

The Business Plan for the Body

Jim Karas is the Fitness Contributor on ABC’s “Good Morning America” show and author of New York Times bestseller “The Business Plan for the Body” and “Flip the Switch”. He is the creator of the Cardio Free Diet exercise programs and is a regular featured expert contributor on nationally syndicated news and entertainment shows including CNN, Entertainment Tonight and Access Hollywood.

Karas has worked with over 500 celebrity and personal training clients to produce results and individual success stories. This feat is crowned with the fact that Allure magazine named Jim Karas as one of the top personal trainers in the country and his work has been featured in Vogue, “O” The Oprah Magazine, Time, People, Men’s Health and Elle. Read the rest of this entry »

Dietary Oil May Need Help In Avoiding Side Effects Of Weight Loss

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An oil made of natural fatty acids that is sometimes used as a weight-loss supplement may need to be paired with hormones or other substances to prevent health problems that can follow rapid weight loss, a new study suggests.

Conjugated linoleic acid (CLA), a compound naturally found in some meat and dairy products, can reduce body fat in some studies in humans. But a recent study in mice found that the hormone leptin adds an element of protection against side effects that can accompany fat loss with CLA.

Without leptin, fat loss occurs in mice eating a diet containing CLA, but the mice also become insulin resistant. When mice are fed CLA and given leptin, the same fat loss occurs but insulin resistance does not develop.

So though leptin is not essential to the fat loss, it has important protective effects to maintain insulin sensitivity, said Martha Belury, lead author of the study and associate professor of human nutrition at Ohio State University.

“Fat loss is not dependent on leptin but if we didn’t have leptin, CLA could have some short-term effects on insulin resistance,” Belury said. Read the rest of this entry »

Got Herpes? Avoid Infetion and start curing it!

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Valtrex is an antiviral drug that can slow doen the growth and spread of the herpes virus so that the body can fight off the infection. Valtrex will not cure herpes, but it can lessen the symptoms of the infection.

Valtrex is used to treat infections caused by herpes viruses. Illnesses caused by herpes viruses include genital herpes, cold sores, shingles, and chicken pox. Take the full Valtrex prescription, even if you feel better and the symptoms improve. Valtrex may also be used for other purposes not listed in this medication guide.

Valaciclovir (INN) or valacyclovir (USAN) is an antiviral drug used in the management of herpes simplex and herpes zoster (shingles). Valtrex medication provides a proven way to reduce the risk of spreading genital herpes to a partner.It is a prodrug, being converted in vivo to aciclovir. It is marketed by GlaxoSmithKline under the trade name Valtrex or Zelitrex.

Valtrex medicine is offered in 500mg and 1gram tablets, the active ingredient being valacyclovir hydrochloride, with the inactive ingredients carnauba wax, colloidal silicon dioxide, crospovidone, FD&C Blue No. 2 Lake, hypromellose, magnesium stearate, microcrystalline cellulose, polyethylene glycol, polysorbate 80, povidone, and titanium dioxide

10 Things you need to avoid when trying to lose weight

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Dieting is not always easy. In fact, it can prove a tough challenge for many people. So here’s a little guide to avoiding things that could make you lose control and start eating. Avoid them like plague if you wish to succeed.

1. Don’t rush into the toughest diet you can find.
This is a common mistake. Many people decide in a moment of desperation to follow a super-strict diet and fail. Don’t rush into a diet that may be too strict for you. If you don’t have any dieting experience and are not 100 percent sure you can stick with the diet, then choose something else.

2. Don’t lose touch with reality.
You can’t realistically expect things to happen over night. When choosing your goal, start small, but be prepared to go far. If you hear someone saying that he lost a large number of pounds in a short time, don’t make it your goal to match his performance. Diet results are different from one person to another.

3. Don’t go to the gym too often
Another common mistake is to use the enthusiasm of the first days to hit the gym every day. This won’t help you at all. Your body needs time to heal and expand the muscle mass after each training session and going to the gym every day interferes with this natural process. Besides, a week of non-stop training could never offset ten or twenty years of couch potato lifestyle. Read the rest of this entry »