Archive for the ‘Weight Control’ Category
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How to Effectively Reduce Belly Fat
Jelly Belly. Love Handles. Dunlap Disease. Whatever you want to call it, the excess fat around your midsection that wiggles and jiggles in all the wrong places just isn’t pretty. Not only is belly fat unattractive, it can be downright dangerous to your health. Extra fat carried around your abdomen can increase your risk of [...]
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Weight Control and Your Life
Research shows that excess body fat has been linked to a number of serious health problems such as high blood pressure, coronary heart disease, diabetes, osteoporosis, arthritis and even certain types of cancer. Some evidence also now exists showing that obesity does a negative impact on not only overall physical health, but also on longevity. [...]
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Overweight or Overfat?
Pay careful attention to this statement: overweight and overfat don’t always mean the same thing. Exercise training is important to fat loss. I’m sure you’ve observed that some people are very muscular and weigh more than the normal average for their height and age. Therefore, despite being technically overweight, these people have lean, healthy bodies [...]
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Tips to Stop Emotional Eating
According to the August issue of Mayo Clinic Women’s HealthSource, emotional eating often leads to eating too much, especially high-calorie, sweet, salty and fatty foods. Women are especially prone to emotional eating — and then feel guiltier and less healthy than men do after snacking on “forbidden” foods. The connection between stress and eating likely [...]
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Exercise Training and Weight Control
These days, it seems that just about everybody is interested in controlling their weight. There are those among us who weigh exactly the right amount. Others actually need to put on a few pounds. The majority of us, however, have to face a battle against being overweight at some time in our lives. Whatever your [...]