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post smoking weight gain

post smoking weight gain

People who quit smoking are often alarmed to see that their weight has gone up. The nicotine in cigarettes is a stimulant; this means that it increases the metabolic rate. The withdrawal of nicotine from the system causes the metabolism to [...]

Posted On : Mar, 28 2007 | Comments : 0

Skipping Breakfast and Fast Food Consumption - Leads to Weight Gain

Skipping Breakfast and Fast Food Consumption - Leads to Weig...

A new study published in the December 2006 issue of the Journal of Adolescent Health by researchers at The Weight Control and Diabetes Research Center at The Miriam Hospital and Brown Medical School, suggests that as teens enter adulth [...]

Posted On : Mar, 27 2007 | Comments : 0

Weight Training for Muscle Gain

Weight Training for Muscle Gain

Weight training involves the use of equipment that enables variable resistance. This resistance can come in the form of "free weights" like barbells and dumbells, machines that use cables or pulleys to help you lift the weight and [...]

Posted On : Mar, 27 2007 | Comments : 0

Obesity surgery for weight loss

Obesity surgery for weight loss

Obesity is looming large in most of our lives. People are using different techniques of weight loss such as diet pills, dieting and exercise for attaining weight loss and in recent times the most common method in the United States for weigh [...]

Posted On : Mar, 20 2007 | Comments : 0

Long Term Weight Loss

Long Term Weight Loss

Losing weight is the first part of the battle. The second part is keeping it off permanently. Many people can knock weight off short term then put it right back on. This article will give you 8 tips to keep the weight off permanently. Los [...]

Posted On : Mar, 17 2007 | Comments : 0

surgical choices for weight loss

surgical choices for weight loss

People who have tried and failed to lose weight now have the option of undergoing gastric bypass surgery. This surgery involves making the stomach smaller by tying off a portion of it using staples or bands. The tied off portion is then att [...]

Posted On : Mar, 15 2007 | Comments : 0

Fiber helps in weight reduction

The most important and beneficial source of food and often neglected one is the main source of nutrition and keeps us protected from various diseases and that is fiber. Fiber helps in weight control also but if used in the proper way and st [...]

Posted On : Mar, 13 2007 | Comments : 0

weight loss supplements

weight loss supplements

  Weight loss supplements are a fast growing industry. They promise the overweight, rapid weight loss with no side effects and minimal discomfort. There are however, few regulations which control the manufacture of these drugs. Some [...]

Posted On : Mar, 12 2007 | Comments : 0

smoking reduces our weight in a negative manner

smoking reduces our weight in a negative manner

  Smoking affects the appearance of an individual. When people stop smoking, they usually put on weight. Smoking increases the body's rate at which calories are burned up and person’s desire to eat decreases and this leads to re [...]

Posted On : Mar, 12 2007 | Comments : 0

Children Gain Weight Faster During Summer Vacation

Children Gain Weight Faster During Summer Vacation

Children are more likely to gain weight during summer vacation as compared to school days. 5380 children from 310 schools were studied. Researchers found out that body mass index (BMI) gains were quicker and more inconsistent during summe [...]

Posted On : Mar, 05 2007 | Comments : 0

Breakfast plays keyrole in managing weight

Breakfast plays keyrole in managing weight

According to latest issue of food technology, proper breakfast may be the solution of reducing obesity. An IFT expert in the functional foods and sensory evaluation Dr. Mary Ellen Camire, Ph.D. said, ""Managing satiety holds [...]

Posted On : Feb, 27 2007 | Comments : 0

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