Thursday, February 28, 2013

Feast and Famine: Controversial 'Fast Diet' Weight Loss Plan Is Eat for 5 Days, Fast for 2 - ABC News

Feast and Famine: Controversial 'Fast Diet' Weight Loss Plan Is Eat for 5 Days, Fast for 2 - ABC News: According to its creators, tons of Brits are losing tons of weight. But what's intriguing is that they're reportedly getting radically healthier by doing something that sounds truly unhealthy: Fasting.

Not every day, just two days a week. The other five days require zero willpower. Fast dieters can eat whatever they want, from cheeseburgers to croissants, in a guilt-free way, the backers of this diet claim.

Wednesday, February 27, 2013

6 Easy Ways to Speed Up Weight Loss - Forbes

6 Easy Ways to Speed Up Weight Loss - Forbes: Here are 6 tricks weight loss gurus use to peel off pounds more quickly.

It’s almost the end of February, and after two months of self-denial, your New Year’s resolution to lose weight is proving discouragingly difficult. You know what you need to do: Cut calories and up your activity level. And you’re on the right track – but the train seems to have slowed down to a crawl.

Tuesday, February 12, 2013

Why Some Employers are Paying Employees to Lose Weight | Fox Business

Why Some Employers are Paying Employees to Lose Weight | Fox Business: The obesity epidemic plaguing the country not only adds billions of dollars in costs to the nation’s health-care system, it also weighs on employees’ productivity. According to HealthyWage, workers dealing with obesity and other chronic health issues cost more than $153 billion a year in lost productivity due to absenteeism.

Weight loss helps to oust worms

Weight loss helps to oust worms: Scientists from the Manchester Immunology Group and the Institute of Inflammation and Repair studied the immune response system in mice that were lacking immune cells and feeding hormones.The mice were infected with the round worm parasite Trichinella spiralis.

Saturday, February 2, 2013

Winning weight loss tips | Wausau Daily Herald | wausaudailyherald.com

Winning weight loss tips | Wausau Daily Herald | wausaudailyherald.com: If you’ve set out to lose weight and get healthy in 2013, but are not sure how to keep going another month, much less the rest of the year, take advice from registered dietitian Anika DeCoster, program manager of the 90-Day Challenge for Life Time Fitness, The Healthy Way of Life Co. In its third year, the national weight loss contest has helped a total of 58,000 people lose a cumulative 145,000 pounds.