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Can Eating Takeaways Sabotage Your Weight Loss Diet?

By Eva Moffat · 17 years ago

Can Takeaways and Weight Loss Diets be together in the same sentence? Yes they can. You just have to be careful to choose food that is good for you and won't spoil your diet. Do ...

Old Wives Tales in Pregnancy - What Should You Believe? Part Two

By Eva Moffat · 17 years ago

You want to keep yourself looking beautiful even while you are pregnant. Can you carry on using the same beauty treatments that you used previously? Unwanted Hair What is unwanted hair? Hair that is growing ...

Help My Clothes Are Too Big Now

By Eva Moffat · 18 years ago

You are dieting successfully; you’ve found a waistline that you had forgotten you once had. That’s really good news, but now you have a dilemma. The big baggy clothes you bought to try and hide ...

How Being Narcoleptic Is Not Funny

By Eva Moffat · 18 years ago

I keep falling asleep, even first thing in the morning after eight hours sleep the night before. Being a perpetual student, I’m always trying to learn something, but the minute I pick up a book ...

Pregnant Women - Folic Acid To Be Added To Bread To Avoid Birth Defects

By Eva Moffat · 18 years ago

The Government is considering adding Folic Acid to all bread except wholemeal at the milling stage. Why Add Folic Acid To Bread? As bread is part of the staple diet of most people, adding Folic ...

Weight Loss Good Health and Fibre

By Eva Moffat · 18 years ago

What Is Fibre? Fibre is the part of the plant that we eat and cannot digest. But while it is still in our body it can do a great deal of good for us. There ...

Are You Making These Mistakes When Training Your Dog?

By Eva Moffat · 18 years ago

If you are training your dog yourself, are you sure you are not making these mistakes: · Confusing the dog by using different words for the same command. For example if you say down, you ...

Can Losing Weight Improve Your Sex Life?

By Eva Moffat · 18 years ago

If you are overweight / obese it is possible that you feel your sex life has gone forever. Your libido or sex drive as it is more commonly known has diminished, maybe so much so ...

Weight Loss - Speed Up Your Metabolism

By Eva Moffat · 18 years ago

Recently a young man asked me about losing weight. His question was, as he has quite a lot of weight to lose he wanted to lose it really quickly as in 20 Kgs per month. ...

Weight Loss - Don't Cut Out The Good Fat

By Eva Moffat · 18 years ago

When you are considering going on a weight loss diet, probably you have the mistaken idea that you have to eat less. This is not strictly true. Rather than eating less, it would be better ...

It All Starts With Good Nutrition

By Eva Moffat · 18 years ago

We all want to enjoy good health don’t we? But some of the food we allow to enter our bodies is definitely not in our best interest. Too much stodgy or fatty foods, that fill ...

Cinnamon Helps Diabetics

By Eva Moffat · 18 years ago

Cinnamon a spice found in many kitchens around the world especially at Christmas time. Although it is used by Jewish people at Rosh Hashona (the Jewish New Year that falls in September each year). It ...

Stress The Not So Silent Symptom

By Eva Moffat · 18 years ago

We have all heard the word ‘stress’ bandied about. Some alternative words or phrases are: · Uptight · Nervous Tension · Worrying Is being stressed a good thing or a bad thing? It has been ...

Why Our Tears Are Salty

By Eva Moffat · 18 years ago

Salt can be found in every cell in our bodies. In an adult human there is a total of about 250 grammes (a cupful). Is it any wonder our tears and sweat are salty. So ...

Think Zinc - An Essential Nutrient

By Eva Moffat · 18 years ago

Zinc is found in practically every cell in your body. There are about two grams of zinc where it is highly concentrated in the skin, hair, nails, eyes and testes. Sexually active men need one ...

Weight Loss and The Stress Factor

By Eva Moffat · 18 years ago

If you are overweight, you will be aware of this and you will feel that you are not very nice to look at and so your self-esteem will take a tumble. Adverts on the television ...