2007-02-10

About the diet: In The Saint-Tropez Diet, Dr. Pappas reveals the four simple principles to unlock your fat-burning receptors so that you can lose weight quickly, fight chronic diseases, and erase years of premature aging.

• Eat more foods containing large amounts of healthy unsaturated fats, especially omega-3 essential fatty acids.
• Eat foods rich in vitamin A together with foods containing omega-3 essential fatty acids.
• Eliminate foods with unhealthy ratios of omega-6 to omega-3 essential fatty acids.
• Eat plenty of fruits and vegetables to boost your consumption of vital nutraceuticals with antioxidant activity.

Benefits of the diet: The Saint-Tropez Diet is a mouth-watering, pleasure-loving, and life-enhancing eating plan that will teach you to cook and eat and love food. And the results? Steady and sensible weight loss, a noticeable increase in your energy levels, and the acquisition of powerful biological immunity boosters to ward off chronic diseases such as hypertension, high cholesterol, diabetes, and a host of heart-related disorders.

• Blends the best of French and Mediterranean cuisine for a diet that lets you have your cake and lose weight too
• Slows your aging process and fights heart disease, diabetes, and other chronic conditions
• Celebrates food and the enjoyment of life, increasing your energy and vitality

CLICK HERE TO PURCHASE YOUR VERY OWN COPY OF THE ST. TROPEZ DIET

2007-02-08

The FDA approved orlistat capsules — called “alli” — as an over-the-counter weight loss aid for overweight adults.

That makes alli the first FDA-approved over-the-counter weight loss pill. Orlistat is also sold in higher doses by prescription under the brand name Xenical

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2007-02-08

Singer Amy Winehouse has recently dropped to the very low weight of 98 pounds. She admits to having a problem but insists on working her problems out on her own.

“Someone tried to get me into a weight rehabilitation thing, but I’m the kind of person who can do it by myself,” she said. “I’m not in denial; I knew I had a problem, but it got to the point where it was like, ‘We want you to eat three solid meals a day,’ and I was like, ‘No girl under the age of 30 eats three meals a day. Girls eat two meals a day.”

She does NOT look healthy!!!

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2007-02-07

Tonight’s E! News featured a segment on Hollywood revenge diets so I decided to take some notes. The focus was on four recent heartbreak victims Reese Witherspoon, Drew Barrymore, Carmen Electra, and Kate Hudson.

Reese Dropped 10 pounds and went from a size 6 to a size 2 after her October breakup from Ryan Phillipe. Her diet consists of a high fiber muffin for breakfast, chicken salad for lunch, and salmon with veggies for dinner. When it comes to fitness Reese runs 3 miles each day and does yoga.

Drew Barrymore lost 20 pounds after her breakup with Fabrizio Moretti. She lost the weight eating cereal for breakfast, a chicken sandwich for lunch, and fish with veggies at dinner time. Drew says she does pig out sometimes but makes up for it by running 5 miles everyday and lifting weights 5 days a week.

Even Carmen Electra lost 10 pounds after her breakup with rocker Dave Navarro. She dropped the weight by avoiding all salt, oil and butter. Carmen also regularly participates in belly dancing, yoga and ballet classes to keep her body in tip top shape.

After Kate Hudson’s separating with husband Chris Robinson she toned up by dropping 10 pounds. Kate’s diet secrets include eating smaller portions and organic foods. She also stays in shape with stripper aerobics and running around after her 3 year old son Ryder.

Source: E! News

2007-02-07

Did you know that the average nursing mother burns 500 calories per day? That’s how Golden Globe winner Actress Rachel Weisz lost her baby weight “I don’t really have a magic potion or pill.”I do Pilates. Nursing burns a lot of calories, 500 calories a day. So, if I could help promote breast-feeding, that would be a good way.”

Not only is breast feeding a great way to drop that baby weight, but is also beneficial to your child’s health. Breast-fed children are significantly more likely to do well in measures of stereoscopic vision than are those who received formula during infancy, according to UK researchers. To read more about this new study CLICK HERE!

2007-02-07

A woman by the name of Janey Luna is suing Trimspa and Anna Nicole Smith. She took the supplement hoping to loose weight just like Anna but it did not work for her at all and now she is very angry. Monday, Luna filed suit in Los Angeles County Superior Court, alleging the advertising is “false or misleading.”

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2007-02-07

Walking is one of my favorite things to do! Try these methods to optimize you’re next walk…

PACE YOURSELF

– You’ll burn 170 calories per hour walking at a leisurely pace (2 mph), 238 calories per hour at a moderate pace (3 mph), and 272 calories per hour at a brisk pace (4 mph). All counts are based on a 150-pound person.

– If you like listening to music, choose fast-paced songs and step to the rhythm; it’ll help quicken your pace and burn more calories. For safety, wear earphones only when walking in a familiar area.

POSITION YOURSELF

Your head: Look straight ahead, not down at the ground.

Your arms: Relax your arms by your sides and swing them front to back, not out to the sides; your hands shouldn’t come up higher than your breastbone. On hills, bend your arms to 90 degrees for more pumping power.

Your hips and waist: Stand tall and keep your hips positioned directly above your feet. Don’t lean forward or back from the waist, even when going up hills (although it’s OK to sit back slightly when heading downhill, as long as you keep your weight over your feet).

Your legs: Stick with your natural stride length to help avoid shin pain, the most common complaint among walkers. To increase your speed, focus on taking quicker steps, not longer ones.

Your feet: Land on your heel first, then roll through to the ball of your foot.

Your shoes: Choose a walking shoe with a rugged tread and rounded heel. It should bend easily at the ball (not the arch) of your foot.

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2007-02-06

Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal on Monday announced an investigation into claims by Coca-Cola and Nestle that their new drink can burn calories and not “voodoo nutrition.”

Blumenthal’s investigation focuses on Enviga, a green-tea drink that contains caffeine, calcium and a green tea extract known as epigallocatechin gallate, or EGCG. Coke says EGCG speeds up metabolism and increases energy use, especially when combined with caffeine.
An Enviga Web site claims that the drink’s blend of green tea and caffeine burns more calories than it contains and can help drinkers maintain an ideal weight. According to a Nestle study, young people who drank three of the 12-ounce drinks a day burned an average of 106 calories.

Blumenthal demanded copies of all scientific studies, clinical trials, tests and papers that prove the calorie-burning claim by next week.

Unless there are credible scientific studies, claims “may be nothing more than voodoo nutrition,” Blumenthal said. “Promise of wondrous weight loss must be supported by science, not magic.”

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2007-02-05

Kate Bosworth has reportedly moved back in with her mum because her mum was so worried about Kate’s recent weight loss.

According to Look magazine, Kate’s mum Patricia was worried when she saw how thin her daughter had become and has made her promise to gain (and maintain) 10 pounds over the next six month.

A friend of the family’s told the magazine: “[Kate]’s pulled back from the social circuit and has been spending lots of time with her mum. They hang out and shop and Kate’s mum cooks for her.”

“Kate’s mum was appalled by her recent appearance. Kate tried to talk her way out of it, saying that the flu caused her to lose weight and that she had everything under control. But [Patricia] knew she’d lost weight since her split from Orlando Bloom.”

“That type of talk might work with friends, but the old saying – mum knows best – really is true.”

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2007-02-05

I just saw this segment on Inside Edition about the diet pills made famous by Anna Nicole Smith. Smith, the spokeswomen for Trimspa’s add campaign, claims that she lost 69 pounds in just 8 months of taking the diet pill. However, two other women who were previously featured in advertising for the company claim that they were never once over weight and never even took the pill. The women also claim that they never agreed to endorse the company. Anna Nicole still insists she lost the weight by taking Trimspa. The whole thing seemed super sketchy and I would not advise wasting your money on such a scandalous product. No pill in the world can replace healthy diet and exercise.