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My Secrets on How to Lose Belly Fat

Wednesday, October 20th, 2010

how to lose belly fatAre you struggling with the belly fat? Are you going on vacation and don’t know how to lose belly fat fast? Here are my personal tips on how to lose belly fat.

My wedding day was coming up and I still had the belly I detested and struggled to get rid of for ages. The 4 things outlined below helped me to look the way I wanted on my wedding day.

Daily Diet: Turning Bad Fat into Good Fat to Fight Obesity

Sunday, October 30th, 2011

New hope for battling obesity has sprung from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine where researchers may have discovered a way of transforming bad, white fat in the body into brown fat that can burn off more calories and weight. Although the breakthrough findings are currently only applicable to rats, the research may pave the way for future treatment of obesity among humans. The results of the research can be found in the journal Cell Metabolism.

High-fat, low-carb diet may reverse kidney failure: study (AFP)

Monday, May 14th, 2012

WASHINGTON (AFP) – Kidney failure is a main complication of diabetes, but a lab study on mice showed that a high-fat, low-carbohydrate diet could reverse that in eight weeks, US researchers said Wednesday.

The extreme food plan is known as a ketogenic diet and is often used to treat children with drug-resistant epilepsy. It starves the body of carbs and sugars, thereby tricking the body into burning fat for fuel instead of glucose.

The diet is so restrictive it must be devised with an expert’s help. Meal options may include scrambled eggs with cream, a bacon and butter omelet, or lettuce doused in mayonnaise.

Fat Removed Via Liposuction Returns in All the Wrong Places

Monday, October 31st, 2011

For over three decades, thousands of women have turned to liposuction for removal of their unwanted lumps and bumps. The results of going “under the knife” have been seen as nothing short of miraculous in the quest for firmer backsides, slender thighs, and flat abdomens. But just when you think you’re rid of the unsightly fat once and for all, you may find that it has returned in some unexpected places.

According to a new study from the University of Colorado, non-obese patients who underwent liposuction for removal of fat deposits from thighs and lower abdomens found that new fat deposits began to appear elsewhere on their bodies. The details on the research can be found in the journal Obesity.

Low-fat diet may not increase diabetes risks (Reuters)

Monday, January 16th, 2012

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – While the low-fat diet craze led some doctors to worry that Americans would instead start eating too many carbohydrates, a new study suggests that eating low-fat doesn’t have to increase carbohydrate-fueled health risks.

Instead, if extra carbohydrates are part of a diet plan that includes more fruits, vegetables, and whole grains, the risk of diabetes – the biggest related health concern — could actually drop, at least in older women, according to the findings.

However, a low-fat, high-carbohydrate diet could create problems in people who already have diabetes, researchers caution.

Brown Fat Cells May One Day Help Combat Obesity (HealthDay)

Thursday, January 5th, 2012

SUNDAY, June 5 (HealthDay News) — The human body has two kinds of fat: the “bad” white kind that stores calories and the “good” brown kind that burns them. Now, researchers say that it is actually possible to make more brown fat to help people lose weight.

“We are now even more optimistic that brown fat could be used for treating obesity and diabetes,” study lead author Dr. Aaron Cypess, assistant professor at Harvard Medical School and the Joslin Diabetes Center in Boston, said in a news release from the Endocrine Society.

Brown Fat Cells May One Day Help Combat Obesity (HealthDay)

Sunday, January 8th, 2012

SUNDAY, June 5 (HealthDay News) — The human body has two kinds of fat: the “bad” white kind that stores calories and the “good” brown kind that burns them. Now, researchers say that it is actually possible to make more brown fat to help people lose weight.

“We are now even more optimistic that brown fat could be used for treating obesity and diabetes,” study lead author Dr. Aaron Cypess, assistant professor at Harvard Medical School and the Joslin Diabetes Center in Boston, said in a news release from the Endocrine Society.

A reversal on carbs

Wednesday, December 14th, 2011
Most people can count calories. Many have a clue about where fat lurks in their diets. However, fewer give carbohydrates much thought, or know why they should.

But a growing number of top nutritional scientists blame excessive carbohydrates — not fat — for America’s ills. They say cutting carbohydrates is the key to reversing obesity, heart disease, Type 2 diabetes and hypertension.

“Fat is not the problem,” says Dr. Walter Willett, chairman of the department of nutrition at the Harvard School of Public Health. “If Americans could eliminate sugary beverages, potatoes, white bread, pasta, white rice and sugary snacks, we would wipe out almost all the problems we have with weight and diabetes and other metabolic diseases.”

Improved Kidney Function Possible With High-Fat Diet

Tuesday, November 15th, 2011

In an age when obesity rates have reached epidemic proportions, a diet containing an extreme amount of fat may sound absurd. But in reality, a high-fat, low-carbohydrate food plan—or ketogenic diet—has been successfully used to rid or markedly reduce seizures in children with drug-resistant epilepsy. By starving the body of carbs and sugars it tricks the body into using fat stores instead of glucose for energy. And that same concept may soon lead to an effective treatment for another serious condition.

Weight Loss Triggered by Blocking 1 Fat-Absorption Gene (LiveScience.com)

Sunday, April 22nd, 2012

Scientists have identified a chain of chemical reactions that begins with one gene and prompts the body to absorb fat.

Finding a drug that interferes with this gene could allow people to decrease the amount of fat their bodies take in from the food they eat.

“In [the] early history of mammals and man, this was a crucial molecule because one had to absorb as much fat as possible and store it because food was very scarce,” said study researcher Bert O’Malley, of Baylor College of Medicine in Houston.