Category Archives: Weight Loss

Planning a Pregnancy? Consider a Mediterranean Diet

Posted on October 26, 2011 by Greg Asseff

Countless Americans and individuals around the world have adopted what nutritionists and marketers call a “Mediterranean style diet” – one that is rich in a variety of vegetables, fruits, whole grains, fish, healthy oils, and legumes – as a means of losing excess body weight or maintaining their current weight if it is at a healthy level.

Indeed, the Mediterranean diet is an excellent dietary lifestyle choice for individuals that are in the pursuit of weight loss, as it’s ideal for decreasing the overall total calories consumed per day while helping to ensure a well balanced intake of a variety of important vitamins and minerals. In addition, clinical evidence has even linked the Mediterranean diet to lowered risks of heart disease, diabetes, bone density loss, as well as other obesity type related illnesses, while improving brain function and health.

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FDA Issues Warning for 20 Natural Weight Loss Pills

Posted on October 20, 2011 by Greg Asseff

With the overweight and obesity statistics continuing to increase in the United States it’s no wonder there are so many weight loss products on the market today. There are a couple of general categories that the weight loss products can be divided into: weight loss products that decrease the individuals appetite and weight loss products that stimulate the individuals metabolism.

Weight loss products that decrease an individuals appetite are intended to lower the number of total calories consumed per day to a value that is lower than the total number of calories that their body burns per day. In contrast, metabolism stimulants are designed to increase the body’s metabolism and hence, create an environment where the increase in the total number of calories burned per day by the body exceeds the total number of calories consumed by the individual per day.

From this point, a further classification across both types of weight loss pills can be made between all natural, or organic, and non-organic. So, as is evident, it is important to take the time to research the various weight loss pills to determine which type of weight loss pill they are and if there are any known health risks or side effects associated with them.

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3 Fad Diets and Why They Don’t Work

Posted on October 19, 2011 by Greg Asseff

Fad diets appear in the fitness and health industry with stunning regularity, promising unprecedented weight loss results with a few “tricks” instead of actual effort. Of course, there’s a reason why fad diets don’t work and are ultimately referred to as “fads” – they provide temporary weight loss results at best, and they quickly fade from our collective memory as new fad diets arise, once again promising fast results based on “scientific” or “medical evidence.”

At FitnessHealth101, we believe that the keys to sustained good health and fitness are simple, and have remained constant for literally thousands of years: consuming a balanced, nutritious whole foods diet coupled with consistently engaging in a variety of physical activities, and getting plenty of sleep, rest and relaxation.

In other words, the best approach to obtaining, and maintaining, your optimum body weight is through healthy lifestyle choices. This being said, below are three fad weight loss diets that attempt to ignore or subvert several of these core nutritional principles, much to the eventual disappointment of individuals that are trying to safely and effectively loss weight:

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Want to Lose Weight? Don’t Forget Your Immune System

Posted on October 1, 2011 by Greg Asseff

You’ve finally done it. You purchased a membership at a fitness center, you’re watching what you eat, you’re actually enjoying exercise routines, and you’re finally getting accustomed to your new healthy lifestyle. Even better, you’re starting to fit into that pair of jeans that have been collecting dust in the closet for years. And then you get sick.

Your weight loss progress is halted for two weeks as you recover from your illness as you battle with your immune system health, and you come out feeling less motivated than ever, returning to your old eating habits and dreading your next session on the elliptical. In order to avoid this all-too-common scenario, you need the think of immune system health as a crucial pillar of your weight loss program, just as important as sticking to your exercise routine and paying attention to your diet.

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Children of Obese Mothers have Higher Asthma Risk

Posted on September 27, 2011 by Greg Asseff

We have all heard the statistics associated with the increases in the number of individuals that are either overweight or obese. In addition, most individuals also understand that being obese increases their personal risk of developing a wide variety of diseases and health disorders, including several types of cancer, heart disease, stroke, hypertension, high cholesterol, osteoarthritis, diabetes and more.

However, many women may not realize that obesity during their pregnancy can also increase the probability of their children contracting a variety of diseases at a very young age as well – including asthma. In fact, a recent Swedish study indicates that obese mothers have a significantly higher likelihood of birthing a child that will develop asthma when compared to mothers that were of a normal body weight.

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