The number of patients choosing gastric surgery in order to lose weight has risen dramatically, new figures reveal.
A whopping 41% average increase in the number of gastric bypasses performed on obese people was recorded in the UK in 2006-7.
These figures have prompted claims that the Government is not doing enough to prevent the spiralling obesity epidemic.
The average woman spends a decade of her life on a diet.
According to a poll conducted by natural weightloss supplement manufacturers LIPObind, ladies will go on 104 diets between the ages of 18 and 70 - that’s two a year!
As the average length of a diet is around five weeks, that works out to be around 10 years. Ten years?! Now that’s a long time to deny yourself what you really want to eat.
It seems that it was Jamie Oliver, rather than the PE teachers, who had the right idea.
Apparently, exercise is not really beneficial for obese children - rather, a healthy diet would be the better plan.
So, should we lock our kids inside at breaktimes? Feed them fruit instead of encouraging them to run around with a football?
Global warming, climate change and the world food crisis - what do they all have in common?
Yep, that’s right, you’ve guessed it: they are all the fault of fat people.
The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, despite sounding like the least likely school ever, has decided that because the obese consume 18% more calories than normal, they are to blame for the world’s ills.
You won’t be surprised to hear that doner kebabs are really, really bad for you - it’s something that everybody is aware of.
But do you know exactly how much fat is in one of these late-night mistakes?
Double your daily allowance, that’s how much. Or, in real terms, 139g of pure fat. Disgusting!
In other horror statistics, an average kebab contains 10g of salt - you shouldn’t be eating any more than 6g each day - and 25% of the entire kebab is made up of fat. Feeling sick yet?
Having a fat bottom could be better for your health, new research suggests.
In news that will come as a huge relief to millions of women (and men) around the world, it seems a certain type of fat that is particularly prevalent around the buttocks can cut the risk of type 2 diabetes.
It’s called ’subcutaneous’ fat - and scientists believe it can actually aid weight loss and regulate your blood sugar levels. How does it do that? Well, it produces adipokines, hormones which can boost your metabolism.
Over 50% of Britain’s population are carriers of a gene that could be making them fat.
Scientists have discovered a section of genetic code that gives its owners an increased chance of being overweight and suffering from related ailments such as diabetes and heart disease.
According to The Telegraph website, the gene is a third more common amongst those of South Asian descent, and leads those carrying it to weigh at least 4.4kg heavier and have a waist that is 2cm larger than non-carriers.
Most women have problems with their ‘muffin top’, that unsightly tyre of flab that rests smugly atop our jeans - a constant reminder of the family-sized bag of Maltesers we ate just after lunch.
Unfortunately, flab manages to squeeze its way out in other places. Hands up if you’ve got a fat back? Yes, it sounds strange, but if you’re storing excess fat on your back, it will spill over the edges of a tight top - a second muffin top, if you will.
Research from across the pond in Chicago has found that overweight women who have high levels of fitness cannot completely eradicate risks to their hearts.
Regular exercise is necessary to lose weight and to improve the health of your heart, but experts say that being fit and fat at the same time just doesn’t work.
“It doesn’t take away the risk entirely. Weight still matters,” said Dr. Martha Gulati, a heart specialist at
Northwestern Memorial Hospital in the US.
Could diet drinks be doing more harm than good?
A new US study certainly thinks so after it found that consuming drinks with the artificial sweetener saccharin may actually lead to more weight gain than the normal sugary alternative.
Almost a quarter of five-year-olds in England are overweight, a startling new study has revealed.
Results from the National Child Measurement Programme found that an alarmingly significant portion of kids were already well on their way to obesity by the time they start reception classes.
Breaking news: Amy Winehouse is not, at the time of going to press, on the brink of death. As recently as yesterday, she was frolicking on a beach in the sun like an actual human.
The troubled singer-songwriter (where “troubled” is an euphemism for ‘we expect her to be found dead in a ditch any second’) spent Sunday on a beach in St. Lucia. We thought she was in rehab in London, but OK.
So far, her latest stint in treatment doesn’t seem to have done Wino any harm; splashing around in a pair of bikini bottoms, she’s distinctly less skeletal and has clearly undergone the process that the Daily Mail refers to as “packing on the pounds” and we at DietPixie call “starting to consume something other than crack”.
Amy has also reportedly started working out for two hours a day - and it seems ‘working out’ is not just code for ‘rolling around on the floor, clawing at the walls and screaming for drugs/booze/Blake’. She has apparently hired a personal trainer and “bounds in to work out on the bikes, weights and Power Plate”.
On the one hand, I’m pleased to see Amy looking a bit more human and actually smiling for a change. On the other hand, things have got pretty bad if Amy freaking Winehouse spends more time in the gym than I do. Who am I supposed to use now as my ‘it could be worse’ person? “It could be worse, you could be Amy Winehouse.” It’s not going to work if she’s running around on Caribbean beaches, now is it?
Still, there’s always Britney.
Source: Daily Mail
Breaking news: Amy Winehouse is not, at the time of going to press, on the brink of death. As recently as yesterday, she was frolicking on a beach in the sun like an actual human.
The troubled singer-songwriter (where “troubled” is an euphemism for ‘we expect her to be found dead in a ditch any second’) spent Sunday on a beach in St. Lucia. We thought she was in rehab in London, but OK.
So far, her latest stint in treatment doesn’t seem to have done Wino any harm; splashing around in a pair of bikini bottoms, she’s distinctly less skeletal and has clearly undergone the process that the Daily Mail refers to as “packing on the pounds” and we at DietPixie call “starting to consume something other than crack”.
Amy has also reportedly started working out for two hours a day - and it seems ‘working out’ is not just code for ‘rolling around on the floor, clawing at the walls and screaming for drugs/booze/Blake’. She has apparently hired a personal trainer and “bounds in to work out on the bikes, weights and Power Plate”.
On the one hand, I’m pleased to see Amy looking a bit more human and actually smiling for a change. On the other hand, things have got pretty bad if Amy freaking Winehouse spends more time in the gym than I do. Who am I supposed to use now as my ‘it could be worse’ person? “It could be worse, you could be Amy Winehouse.” It’s not going to work if she’s running around on Caribbean beaches, now is it?
Still, there’s always Britney.
Source: Daily Mail
Breaking news: Amy Winehouse is not, at the time of going to press, on the brink of death. As recently as yesterday, she was frolicking on a beach in the sun like an actual human.
The troubled singer-songwriter (where “troubled” is an euphemism for ‘we expect her to be found dead in a ditch any second’) spent Sunday on a beach in St. Lucia. We thought she was in rehab in London, but OK.
So far, her latest stint in treatment doesn’t seem to have done Wino any harm; splashing around in a pair of bikini bottoms, she’s distinctly less skeletal and has clearly undergone the process that the Daily Mail refers to as “packing on the pounds” and we at DietPixie call “starting to consume something other than crack”.
Amy has also reportedly started working out for two hours a day - and it seems ‘working out’ is not just code for ‘rolling around on the floor, clawing at the walls and screaming for drugs/booze/Blake’. She has apparently hired a personal trainer and “bounds in to work out on the bikes, weights and Power Plate”.
On the one hand, I’m pleased to see Amy looking a bit more human and actually smiling for a change. On the other hand, things have got pretty bad if Amy freaking Winehouse spends more time in the gym than I do. Who am I supposed to use now as my ‘it could be worse’ person? “It could be worse, you could be Amy Winehouse.” It’s not going to work if she’s running around on Caribbean beaches, now is it?
Still, there’s always Britney.
Source: Daily Mail
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