Millions of people have a ‘fat gene’ that makes them more greedy than others.
If you are one of these unfortunates, you’ll take in an extra 300 calories in the course of an average day. Over time, this will lead to being overweight, and even obese.
Ladies who stuff it in first thing stay fuller for longer, snack less, lose weight and keep it off. Sounds like a convincing argument for an almighty grill-up.
We’ve always known breakfast was the most important meal of the day because our mum told us, but now there’s science fact as well as mum fact to back it up.
Who said men could not careless about how their bodies look?
In fact, according to the most predictable health and diet survey since yesterday, men are just as keen as women to get rid of their flabby arms and stomachs as women.
Or at least in the UK they are. Not that we are saying other men around the world are not interested in shedding the pounds. No way!!
Student-music’s answer to Dawn French, fashion lesbian Beth Ditto, has jumped aboard the Britton-bashing.
Speaking at the Glamour Awards this week, The Gossip’s Beth Ditto chastised Fern Britton for her decision to lose weight through a gastric band operation.
The Mediterranean way of life has long been hailed as the healthiest for brain and body and now it could be put on the world heritage list. But with Spain facing its own obesity crisis, should we really be bigging it up?
Spain – along with buddies Italy, Greece and Morocco – reckons the Mediterranean diet is so traditional and good for us that it should be put on the world heritage list.
But what exactly constitutes the Mediterranean diet?
Fancy munching on a plate of locusts? Or even a maggot salad?
No? Ok, how about some wasps and rice?
Doesn’t exactly tickle the taste buds, does it? But such a diet could well be the solution to the growing world food crisis.
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.
It might seem glaringly obvious, but the powers that be have gone and announced it anyway. Prohibiting snacks in schools could help to curb unhealthy eating habits within the nation’s kids.
A study at Cardiff University found that this was the easiest method to get kids onto healthier diets. It also discovered that peer pressure is fundamentally important in the way that youngsters choose to eat.
In the year-long scheme, children aged 9-11 from 43 primary schools in deprived areas across South Wales and South West England were analysed.
Vinegar – great with fish and chips, but can also help ease arthritis.
Well, that’s according to intrepid explorer Sir Ranulph Fiennes anyway, who swears by the stuff.
The 64-year-old adventurer got the first twinges of arthritis 20 years ago in his hands and hips, which he says was caused by too many expeditions spent sleeping in cold conditions.
But Fiennes insists he no longer suffers from the ailment, and says it’s all thanks to a vinegar recipe his mother passed down to him.
And the fact in 2003 he ran seven marathons in seven days and earlier this year tackled Everest, who are we to argue.
OK, the wonder cure – named Honeygar, which consists of four parts apple cider vinegar and one part raw honey – would be no good on chips (we think), but, according to Sir Fiennes, it worked wonders for his mother, who in her mid-80s was bedridden with arthritis.
Speaking to the Daily Mail newspaper, he said: “My sisters and I encouraged her to look into an alternative cure after she showed us the doctor’s X-ray, which highlighted the arthritic band in her back.”
So she looked into it, and found it in a library book which highlighted a natural cure for arthritis that included cider vinegar, honey and black molasses. The treatment also involved bathing in Epsom salt regularly.
He added: “My mother tried this method and after 18 months her condition started to improve, which was unusual in someone of her age.”
Indeed, it successfully held her pain at bay for the remaining six years of her life.
So it was only natural that when Sir Fiennes developed the same condition that he took a leaf out of his mother’s book.
In recent years he has relied upon Honeygar, which was developed by former nurse and fellow arthritis sufferer Margeret Hills, who died in 2003.
He said: “I didn’t give up impatiently as I would have done had I not seen the effects on my mother.
“It did take more than a year before the aches gradually grew less and less and eventually disappeared.
“From time to time I’ve lapsed for a while. After two or three months the arthritis begins slowly to return. It goes away - just as slowly - when I retake Honeygar daily again.”
So how does it work? Well, this is not just some old wife’s tale, it actually does have some science to back it up.
Essentially, Hills was convinced arthritis was caused by a build-up of uric acid. And the best way to neutralise that is malic acid, which is found in apple cider. Bingo!
So where can you get some? Well, the good news is Honeygar is available from all good health food shops ¬ and some bad ones too. You won’t even need a doctor’s prescription.
However, before you go rushing to the shops you should know that not everyone is convinced.
Consultant rheumatologist Professor Robert Moots, of the University of Liverpool, said: “There is no connection between dietary acids and what happens in the body.”
Spoilsport.
Vinegar – great with fish and chips, but can also help ease arthritis.
Well, that’s according to intrepid explorer Sir Ranulph Fiennes anyway, who swears by the stuff.
The 64-year-old adventurer got the first twinges of arthritis 20 years ago in his hands and hips, which he says was caused by too many expeditions spent sleeping in cold conditions.
But Fiennes insists he no longer suffers from the ailment, and says it’s all thanks to a vinegar recipe his mother passed down to him.
And the fact in 2003 he ran seven marathons in seven days and earlier this year tackled Everest, who are we to argue.
OK, the wonder cure – named Honeygar, which consists of four parts apple cider vinegar and one part raw honey – would be no good on chips (we think), but, according to Sir Fiennes, it worked wonders for his mother, who in her mid-80s was bedridden with arthritis.
Speaking to the Daily Mail newspaper, he said: “My sisters and I encouraged her to look into an alternative cure after she showed us the doctor’s X-ray, which highlighted the arthritic band in her back.”
So she looked into it, and found it in a library book which highlighted a natural cure for arthritis that included cider vinegar, honey and black molasses. The treatment also involved bathing in Epsom salt regularly.
He added: “My mother tried this method and after 18 months her condition started to improve, which was unusual in someone of her age.”
Indeed, it successfully held her pain at bay for the remaining six years of her life.
So it was only natural that when Sir Fiennes developed the same condition that he took a leaf out of his mother’s book.
In recent years he has relied upon Honeygar, which was developed by former nurse and fellow arthritis sufferer Margeret Hills, who died in 2003.
He said: “I didn’t give up impatiently as I would have done had I not seen the effects on my mother.
“It did take more than a year before the aches gradually grew less and less and eventually disappeared.
“From time to time I’ve lapsed for a while. After two or three months the arthritis begins slowly to return. It goes away - just as slowly - when I retake Honeygar daily again.”
So how does it work? Well, this is not just some old wife’s tale, it actually does have some science to back it up.
Essentially, Hills was convinced arthritis was caused by a build-up of uric acid. And the best way to neutralise that is malic acid, which is found in apple cider. Bingo!
So where can you get some? Well, the good news is Honeygar is available from all good health food shops ¬ and some bad ones too. You won’t even need a doctor’s prescription.
However, before you go rushing to the shops you should know that not everyone is convinced.
Consultant rheumatologist Professor Robert Moots, of the University of Liverpool, said: “There is no connection between dietary acids and what happens in the body.”
Spoilsport.
Vinegar – great with fish and chips, but can also help ease arthritis.
Well, that’s according to intrepid explorer Sir Ranulph Fiennes anyway, who swears by the stuff.
The 64-year-old adventurer got the first twinges of arthritis 20 years ago in his hands and hips, which he says was caused by too many expeditions spent sleeping in cold conditions.
But Fiennes insists he no longer suffers from the ailment, and says it’s all thanks to a vinegar recipe his mother passed down to him.
And the fact in 2003 he ran seven marathons in seven days and earlier this year tackled Everest, who are we to argue.
OK, the wonder cure – named Honeygar, which consists of four parts apple cider vinegar and one part raw honey – would be no good on chips (we think), but, according to Sir Fiennes, it worked wonders for his mother, who in her mid-80s was bedridden with arthritis.
Speaking to the Daily Mail newspaper, he said: “My sisters and I encouraged her to look into an alternative cure after she showed us the doctor’s X-ray, which highlighted the arthritic band in her back.”
So she looked into it, and found it in a library book which highlighted a natural cure for arthritis that included cider vinegar, honey and black molasses. The treatment also involved bathing in Epsom salt regularly.
He added: “My mother tried this method and after 18 months her condition started to improve, which was unusual in someone of her age.”
Indeed, it successfully held her pain at bay for the remaining six years of her life.
So it was only natural that when Sir Fiennes developed the same condition that he took a leaf out of his mother’s book.
In recent years he has relied upon Honeygar, which was developed by former nurse and fellow arthritis sufferer Margeret Hills, who died in 2003.
He said: “I didn’t give up impatiently as I would have done had I not seen the effects on my mother.
“It did take more than a year before the aches gradually grew less and less and eventually disappeared.
“From time to time I’ve lapsed for a while. After two or three months the arthritis begins slowly to return. It goes away - just as slowly - when I retake Honeygar daily again.”
So how does it work? Well, this is not just some old wife’s tale, it actually does have some science to back it up.
Essentially, Hills was convinced arthritis was caused by a build-up of uric acid. And the best way to neutralise that is malic acid, which is found in apple cider. Bingo!
So where can you get some? Well, the good news is Honeygar is available from all good health food shops ¬ and some bad ones too. You won’t even need a doctor’s prescription.
However, before you go rushing to the shops you should know that not everyone is convinced.
Consultant rheumatologist Professor Robert Moots, of the University of Liverpool, said: “There is no connection between dietary acids and what happens in the body.”
Spoilsport.
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