Archive for May 8th, 2009
‘It must be in my genes.’ Before we talk more about food, let’s look at the role genetics plays in weight control. There are many overweight people who tell us resignedly, that: • ‘well my mother’s/father’s the same’, • ‘I’ve always been overweight’, • ‘it must be in my genes’. Research shows us that this [...]
In a comprehensive review of the issue in 1991, Dr Andrew Prentice and his associates at the Dunn Clinical Nutrition Centre in Cambridge, identified the physiological outcomes of slimming. These included: energy sparing adaptations, alterations in fat and lean body mass, altered energy substrate handling, changes in appetite, health related outcomes such as fitness and [...]
Fat cells exist in all parts of the body with four exceptions: the eyelids, parts of the oesophagus, the brain and the penis. The main location of concern to the weight watcher is subcutaneous fat, which is stored below the lower surface (dermis) of the skin. This gives skin its ’rounded’ or cushioned feeling when [...]
Use only small, fresh, hard cucumbers. Place them in cold water overnight, then dry them well. Place cucumbers in a wooden barrel, or a large earthenware or glass jar. Place a few leaves of black currants, cherries, mustard seed and dill branches in with the cucumbers. Boil up a sufficient amount of salt water, using [...]
Here is a do-it-yourself program to stimulate your hair growth and prevent hair loss and baldness—and possibly even grow new hair on already bald heads! 1. H-Pantoten tablets are made in Sweden and are sold in every drug store, health food store and barber shop in Sweden and also in many other countries on the [...]