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Diets

Lose Weight For Good By Not Dieting

by laura on January 6, 2010

We all know that fad diets don’t last long, don’t help us keep the weight off and don’t do us any good, but that doesn’t stop us trying out every new one that comes along, in the vain hope that maybe this time we can lose 10lb  in two weeks, look toned and sexy, and [...]

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Fad Diets Make You Fat

by laura on November 26, 2009

The British Society of Gastroenterology indicated recently that fad and extreme diets may work in the short term by showing dramatic weight loss, but will ultimately only make you fatter and may actually be harmful to your health.  The most extreme diets seem to include attempting to live on citrus fruits and seeds as mentioned [...]

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I could write a book about this one! But to cut a long story short, if your body thinks it’s being starved it will hang on to as much fat as possible. In fact it will actually start to burn muscle for fuel in preference to fat. And seeing that muscle is your body’s fat-burning [...]

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