weight loss

So you think you’ve just purchased the healthiest cracker in the world? Take a look closer - you may have been fooled by the manufacturer.

Look no further than the Beer Drinker’s Diet, the sports enthusiasts’ diet dream come true! For those watching their weight, beer is usually a no-no as it’s loaded with calories, but Bradley Cailor, the books author, claims he lost pounds drinking the frothy beverage.

"It's a mental thing, guys. Knowing that you're allowed to have fun makes it work for you,” said Cailor.

He goes on to say it’s not so much what you eat, as how you eat. The diet focuses on portion size and eating high calorie foods and beverages in moderation. This way participants in the diet keep from feeling deprived and can better stick to a healthy diet.

To have fun, Cailor leaves his beer drinking to the weekend and follows a healthy lifestyle during the week days that also includes working out regularly.

Someday soon, predicts Food Processing Magazine, your refrigerator will not only store food, it will choose it and restrict it, too. Within the next few years, computerized "smart" refrigerators, programmed with personal codes, will withhold goodies and snacks if they don't think certain people should have them.

British men are turning to cosmetic surgery to tackle the embarrassment of "man breasts" or "moobs," fuelling a near-doubling in the number of people sculpting their bodies through liposuction, says The Sunday Times of London. According to one theory, the condition, called gynaeomastia, may be caused by an excess of female hormones in tap water. Moobs can also be caused by obesity or weight gain.

Your friends are all doing it, so are some celebrities, so have you ever considered a detox diet? A detox diet (also called a cleansing diet) will remove toxins and poisons from your body, and can promote weight loss.

Cellulite is a problem for almost 90% of women out there. So you are not alone. Time to exercise it all away. The Cellubike is the newest thing in exercise equipment. Put the cream away, for long-term results target this problem head on…

U.S. sociologist Barry Glassner, author of the bestselling book The Culture of Fear, has written The Gospel of Food: Everything You Think You Know About Food Is Wrong. His words are a good reminder to you to get your hands out of the cookie jar!

Working out and having fun - isn’t that what it’s all about? Well rarely do people report having a great time sweating it out at the gym, but there is a new concept in weight loss that may have you and your kids dancing around the house as you shed pounds.

An adventurous group of humans in the UK decided to eat like apes, literally, and while doing so found there were many health benefits to the plant-based diet.

"For the latest get-skinny-quick gimmick, Hewlett-Packard would have you reach no further than the nearest Photosmart R967," says The Seattle Times. "Simply take a picture, view it, choose 'Slimming' from the Artistic Effects menu and watch as your subject shrinks. Sadly, the camera can't eliminate unsightly rolls or awkward pant creases; it just sort of sucks in the whole picture and elongates the image for an understated Modigliani effect."