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A Healthy Liver and Weight Loss

by Dr Sandra Cabot

The state of your liver will have a huge bearing upon how well you live, how long you will live and how you will look and feel. In this article Dr Cabot outlines the pathways used ...

A New Paradigm for Long-term Healthy Lifestyle Management

by Gina Pickersgill

The author emphasises the fact that ‘the experts’ fail to point out is that our answers come from within, not from external advice.  When we try to make a change, we may think ‘I’l...

Childhood Obesity and Food Advertisements†

by Claudia Louch

Worldwide, over 22 million children under five are severely overweight. In the UK there are around 1 million obese children under 16 years of age. These soaring rates in obesity ha...

Eat Fat

by Richard Klein

Fat has been a major issue for Richard Klein and his family for most of his life. This has been a negative as well as a positive factor. The fat we ponder serves to embody our hu...

Fat Loss, NOT Weight Loss

by Peter Smith

This article will attempt to explain why most of what we have believed in the past about weight loss and dieting is built on false foundations.

Genetic Predisposition to Obesity - an Ancestral Legacy

by Dr Peter Kay

Dr. Kay has developed a product, Homeovitality Super Weight-Loss product, and the article spells out exactly how this product was developed and how it helps in a weight-loss progra...

Juicing for Health

by Kerry Doyle

Kerry Doyle is qualified in Nutrition and Health and in Clinical and Holistic Aromatherapy. In this article she looks at the advantages of Juicing, the daily consumption of fresh f...

Miranda's Bowl of Porridge

by June Butlin

This regular column by June Butlin illustrates how the author tackled the long-term weight problems experienced by a middle-aged client.

Natural Weight-loss Supplements:

by Mark Brudnak, Ph.D. ND

As the problem of obesity continues to increase in the Western world, pharmaceutical companies have responded by developing weight-loss drugs that target certain biochemical pathwa...

Naturopathic Roadmap to Achieving Your Ideal Weight

by D Lee Waller

One out of three women and one out of four men are on a diet at any given time. Two-thirds of dieters regain the lost weight within one year and virtually all regain it within five ...

Nutritional Therapists: Food Police or Food Educators?

by Penny Crowther

The representation of nutritionists as 'food police' is an obstacle that the author highlights we must overcome. Another obstacle when following diets can be a low mood, stemming f...

Obstacles to Weight Loss

by Penny Crowther

Research shows that the population is getting fatter, and yet at the same time dieting has reached epidemic proportions. Nutritionist Penny Crowther sheds light on why this might b...

Peter Hall’s Weight Loss Using the ‘Get Slim Guaranteed’ Programme

by Graham W Price

Most people know what they need to do to lose weight …. eat less, eat healthily and exercise more. All weight loss articles, except this one, tend to be variations on this theme. I...

Susan's Story of Fat Loss

by June Butlin

Diet programmes rarely produce safe and effective methods of achieving fat loss. Indeed, America spends 36 billion dollars on weight loss programmes each year and it is a highly pr...

The Dieting Glut

by Jane Dunkeld, Ph.D.

Doctors have known about the risks to health of being overweight for centuries; Hippocrates (460-377 BC) noted that stout people were more likely to die suddenly and unexpectedly. ...

The Trouble with Binge Eating: Filling the Void

by Gina Pickersgill

The author is a former glamour model, has assisted Paul McKenna on his weight-loss courses, and runs a virtual healing sanctuary in Second Life. Having had to keep her weight down ...

Weight Loss Through Well-Being

by Paul Smith

The bare facts about dieting are well known – only around one in twenty attempts to lose weight will succeed. Yet this doesn't stop millions of people trying over and again to reac...

Weight Loss Using Chinese Medicine

by Attilio D\'Alberto

This article focuses on how Chinese remedies and therapies, such as Herbal medicine and Acupuncture help with weight loss, and offers some advice on diet and exercises such as fast...