Understanding Emotions Improves Our Food Choices
Menus and advertising affect our emotions, and if we understand those emotions, we make better food choices, according to a new study in the Journal of Consumer Research.
Authors Blair Kidwell, David M. Hardesty, and Terry L. Childers (all University of Kentucky) examined the “emotional intelligence” of consumers, including obese people. They found that people who [...]
New Trimfizz is “The Champagne of Weight Loss Systems”
Power-Trition, one of America’s leading nutritional supplement companies, has introduced Trimfizz®. Labeled “The Champagne of Weight Loss Systems,” European-made Trimfizz® is an effervescent stick pack. It dissolves quickly in water to provide a tasty, citrus-flavored beverage. Because it is dissolved in water, its ingredients are absorbed four times more quickly than is the case with [...]
Levemir Demonstrates a Significant Weight Loss in Obese Patients
Data released at the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD) Annual Meeting concludes that Levemir® (insulin detemir [rDNA origin] injection) is a once-daily treatment for diabetes patients after demonstrating a 24-hour duration of action in both type 1 and type 2 diabetes.1,2 Results from two other studies announced today reveal that Levemir® can [...]
Most people get too much sodium in their diet
Most people use too much sodium (salt, sodium chloride). The upper limit on sodium comes from a panel of experts, and often different panels come up with different limits. One group sets the upper daily limit at 2,400 mg of sodium. Another would like people to use less, somewhere in the range of 1,200 mg [...]
Bariatric Surgery: Improves Health in a Cost Efficient Manner
Bariatric surgery has been said that it can pay for itself within a few years by helping to reduce insurance claims resulting from medical conditions that obese people can develop. While that might seem to be an overestimation, research shows that it is indeed correct, and that in most cases, surgical cost can be recovered [...]
Faith Helps Women to Lose Weight
They ate when they were stressed. They ate when they were lonely or frustrated. Then the guilt set in — for breaking the latest attempt at a diet, for losing the power struggle with a craving. It’s an unhealthy pattern familiar to the women below, and one to which many of us can relate.
So what [...]
Practical Guide to Weight Loss the Six Senses Way
We all want to lose a few pounds and look better than ever, but sometimes it just so difficult to achieve. Frustration and failure are easy to avoid if you have an effective and realistic plan of action. To help you reach your fat-fighting goal, Marteyne van Well, Spa Manager at Six Senses [...]
