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Superfoods – Garlic – Blood Thinner

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It’s not just vampires that are repelled by the scent of garlic.  Believe it or not the fear of the notorious garlic breath is enough to put some people off eating this delicious and nutritious veggie for life! But wait a minute! You might want to overlook this compared to the massive benefits we can [...]

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Fun Food Facts – Smell More, Eat Less!

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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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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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Eating for Two Doesn’t Mean Stuff your Face

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Pregnant belly - eating for two

So, okay you’re pregnant and you are always hungry. I get it. I’ve been there. In the UK they call being pregnant ‘having a bun in the oven’, and boy, all through my pregnancies I wished I did have something baking, like, all the time. Who doesn’t love the smell of fresh bread but during [...]

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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

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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

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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

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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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So You Want the Skinny on Slimming?

Diet Books - From Atkins to The Zone

If you have only ever read one diet book in your life then you know that it is obligatory that the author declares his or her own diet to be revolutionary, fail-safe and fast. Some are stuffed with scientific explanations or long-winded justificatios for one instruction or another. While others simply tell you what to [...]

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