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Fun Food Facts – Smell More, Eat Less!

Diet Supplements & Aids
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Did you know that enhancing the smell of what you eat, can make you eat less? According to Dr. Alan Hirsch, who over the course of his 25 year career researching and treating smelling and taste disorders, has conducted hundreds of  studies into sensory disorders, “When you smell food your brain interprets it as though [...]

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Super Foods – Broccoli – Powerhouse with Anti-Cancer Properties

Super Foods
Broccoli

As a child you may have had nightmares over the soggy grey-greenish mushy broccoli served up at school lunches, but prepared well this vegetable is both delicious and a powerhouse of health giving properties. Broccoli has both anti-viral and anti-carcinogenic properties. Boiling broccoli for even five minutes can destroy up to 30% of these healthy [...]

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Fat Burning Supplements – Get the Scoop on the Poop!

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Alli-oops - like orange oil on top of a pizza.

So there’s these pills, right? They block the fat in what you eat from being absorbed by the body. Instead, it just all gets flushed out in your poo! “Sounds great!” “Sign me up.” “Where do I get some?” Well, hold on a minute because there are possible consequences and you might not like them. [...]

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OxyElite Pro by USP Labs

Diet Supplements & Aids
Oxyelite Pro Diet Pills

Interestingly reviews on the efficacy of the OxyElite Pro diet pills range from ‘absolute garbage!’ to ‘best thermogenic on the market’.  The nay-sayers are far outweighed by glowing reviews and at least some of the negative reviews can be explained by the users unfamiliarity with the possible general effects on mood and concentration of metabolic [...]

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Jillian Michaels – Making the Cut

Diet Books - From Atkins to The Zone
Jillian Michaels - Making the Cut

We don’t know which is the scarier, the Jillian Michaels that gets right up in your face and screams until her eyes pop, or the super sympathetic Jillian who tries to winkle out all the psychological reasons that you let yourself get into your presently disgusting state of fattitude. Both of them scare the crap out of us!  But [...]

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Eat Stop Eat Intermittent Fasting Diet – Does it Work?

Diet Books - From Atkins to The Zone

Alice Marston loves the green dress she wore to her sister’s wedding. Unfortunately it has been packed away in a suitcase in the basement for the last ten years. Much as Alice would have loved to squeeze into that dress or her beloved old faded jeans that used to fit her like a second skin, [...]

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Reality Check

The Skinny

Reality check:  you can never, ever, use weight loss to solve problems that are not related to your weight.  At your goal weight or not, you still have to live with yourself and deal with your problems.  You will still have the same husband, the same job, the same kids, and the same life.  Losing [...]

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Getting the Skinny – Be Inspired

The Skinny

Do you feel you have hit a plateau in your weight loss journey? Are you in a need of a little inspiration?

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Eat Yourself Skinny

Skinny Recipes

Delighted to introduce a special person to you today. Meet Ronaldo Fulieri. He is a nutritionist, dietitian, personal trainer and he has been cooking since he was a child. He uses a lot of chilli in his recipes as well as garlic and ginger – not so much for any thermogenic fat burning qualities but [...]

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Thermogenics – Fat Burning Fact or Fiction

Diet Supplements & Aids
Chillies are thermogenic

According to Wikipedia, ‘thermogenic’ means tending to produce heat and is a word commonly applied to drugs which increase heat through metabolic stimulation. In the weight loss and body-building worlds, there is a whole range of thermogenic pills and potions which, they say, will raise your metabolism and help you burn, burn, burn off that [...]

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Amazing Grass Green SuperFood

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