June 14, 2009

• Choosing a Diet Pill

  Many people fail to lose weight just because they’ve chosen an improper diet pill.  In fact, the weight loss supplement that you choose makes all the difference between you and the dieters who do not succeed in losing weight.  So, here are some basics you need to navigate within the vast world of diet pills…
  Appetite [...]

June 3, 2009

• Phentermine and Xenical

  When trying hard to lose weight its hard to deny that there are some great diet pills out there that can help the process along.  Personally, I have been interested in Phentermine which is supposed to be used in the short-term and combined with exercise, diet, and behavioral modification.  
  First a bit of history: Phentermine [...]

May 25, 2009

• Prescription Diet Pills

  We have all been tempted to take weight loss medications that reduce or control weight, haven’t we?  But do you actually know how they work to help you lose weight?  Here’s how: they affect weight regulation by altering your appetite, metabolism or the absorption of calories.  Take the example of Phentermine.  Phentermine’s mechanism is similar [...]

April 6, 2009

• Cabbage Soup Diet

  Do you remember the old cabbage soup diet?  Maybe you have heard of it but have no idea what the diet actually entails?  Well, I want to tell you that it is not just cabbage soup, which will come as a relief to some.  But that doesn’t mean it hasn’t got all of the great [...]

March 16, 2009

• Low Carb Diets Rock

  It’s quite counterintuitive I think, to not blame fat for your body being fat.  We’ve been told to avoid saturated fats for so long that to shift our fat attitudes and begin to embrace fat is kind of scary for some.  But a 12-month study out of Stanford University, published not long ago in the [...]

March 13, 2009

• Why, Oh Why Acai?

  Acai berries are the latest rage in the diet world after their big Oprah appearance, but what exactly is so big about these little berries?  Here’s a bit of background for you: in Brazil, acai is pretty commonplace and has been for some time.  They use the juice and pulp of açaí fruits are used [...]

March 3, 2009

• The Grapefruit Diet Revisited

  This is one of the oldest diets in the book, and yet, the Grapefruit diet seems to have real staying power, despite all of the popular diets of today, such as the Zone and Atkins.  For those who don’t know, the premise of the Grapefruit Diet is that there is an ingredient in grapefruits, that, [...]

February 28, 2009

• Life After Orlistat

  A new study on Orlistat users has found that many people using the medication may not keep up the diet changes that are necessary for the treatment’s success.  Orlistat, which is also sold as Xenical, aids in weight loss by blocking the absorption of dietary fat in the intestines. People who take it are advised [...]