Nutritional Supplements Can Aid Weight Loss as Part of a Healthy Lifestyle
by Louise Owens
The holy grail of weight loss strategies for the conscientious individual is to lose those few extra pounds permanently without compromising your health. Forget the fad diets that only equate to short-term gain, long-term waist gain! The key to sustainable weight loss coupled with a healthy lifestyle is to clarify your long-term goals [...]
European Obesity Day on May 22nd 2010
A European wide public awareness event has been launched today to raise awareness of the health and lifestyle impact of obesity. The inaugural European Obesity Day details were announced today by GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare, the Irish Pharmacy Union and the Diabetes Federation of Ireland.
European Obesity Day, which takes place on Saturday 22nd May, aims to [...]
Be realistic when making New Year Resolutions, think twice about Fad Diets
New research results released by the NHF today, Tuesday 12th January 2010 shows that over the past twelve months 69% of female participants and 49% of male participants have tried to lose weight. However, only 42% of women and 29% of men actually succeeded in losing weight. For 2010, the Nutrition & Health Foundation [...]
Dreaming of a light Christmas
by Bryan Kavanagh
The question I get asked most frequently on a yearly basis is ‘How do I keep the weight off over the Christmas’. The truth of the matter and the answer people don’t like to hear is ‘don’t eat so much’.
That doesn’t usually go down too well. When I sat down and thought about [...]
New research shows that 85% of people’s weight gain in 2009 was unintentional
The Nutrition and Health Foundation (NHF) urges people to maintain their weight over the festive period.
New research carried out by Empathy Research* on behalf of The Nutrition & Health Foundation released today, Monday, 7th December shows that more than two fifths of participants (45%) had put on weight over the past twelve months. Of [...]
Dieting can damage your health
The latest evidence shows that numerous popular weight-loss diets can have devastating long-term health consequences.
It is widely accepted that losing weight reduces the risk of cancer, heart disease or diabetes; but the newest studies show that the side-effects of some of the most popular weight loss regimes can cancel out the benefits.
In Ireland & the [...]
Free Diet Ebook
We came across a useful Diet Ebook recently entitled ‘52 Guaranteed Strategies to Lose Weight and Keep it off‘. The Ebook can be downloaded for free from The Brain Changing Diet website. The strategies are listed in a brief, easy to read format and offer some useful, no nonsense tips to anyone who is trying [...]
