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The Top 10 Weight-loss Fallacies
By Steven Johnson · 13 years ago
There's nothing worse than putting in lots of time, effort, and money to try to lose weight and getting no results. With that in mind, read about these commons diet myths and fallacies to save ...
Body Mass Index and Diet Drugs
By Steven Johnson · 13 years ago
Your BMI is 30+. This is what it means when doctors say you are obese. Your goal? Break into the 18.5 to 24.9 range. That's the "normal weight range". But those are just numbers. How ...
Lose weight or lose your job?
By Steven Johnson · 13 years ago
Thanks to Steven Slater, flight-attendants are back in the news again. It's not clear at this point whether JetBlue will emerge from this with any credit. No matter how much it may pay its attendants, ...
Is Female Pattern Baldness Treatable?
By Steven Johnson · 13 years ago
For any person, man or woman, baldness is an embarrassing condition, and it can easily make you feel like you are losing control over your body. For women it can seem even more embarrassing, because ...
What Causes Male Pattern Baldness?
By Steven Johnson · 13 years ago
If you are suffering from male pattern baldness, it can be downright embarrassing. But believe it or not, baldness is a scientific problem just like any other problem with your body, and this means you ...
Male menopause
By Steven Johnson · 13 years ago
The pharmaceutical industry has been playing a game with us all and, as with all things cultural, the sociologists have a name for it - medicalization. This is the process of inventing a disease or ...
Now is the time to de-stress
By Steven Johnson · 13 years ago
Open any women's magazine (not that this is anything we would ever admit to doing, of course) and apart from all these incredibly thin women posing in the kind of clothes we could never afford ...
What happens as you grow old?
By Steven Johnson · 13 years ago
In popular culture, it's the women who are supposed to be the most obsessed by the way they look. Such is the pressure for social acceptance, many spend amazingly large sums of money on cosmetic ...
Hair loss in culture
By Steven Johnson · 13 years ago
At the dawn of time, we all had more hair and lacked the means to cut it. The only way the mass of hair reduced was through aging. Sadly, hair loss has always been the ...
Overcoming the Psychological Effects of Hair Loss
By Steven Johnson · 13 years ago
If you are suffering from male pattern baldness or hair loss, then you already know that the effects can be psychologically damaging. You may be, or are suffering from low self-esteem, decreased confidence, and are ...
Top 3 Hair Loss Myths Debunked
By Steven Johnson · 13 years ago
With every human condition comes a series of myths, old wives tales, or urban legends that make the condition appear worse if one is afflicted with it. Hair loss is no exception, and many myths ...
Why taking weight loss drugs?
By Steven Johnson · 13 years ago
This drug is designed for people who have serious problems with weight control and not for those trying to lose weight with cosmetic purpose. This medication is only for certain people and in helping them ...
Getting the best weight loss results
By Steven Johnson · 13 years ago
Having a lot of excessive weight can be really stressful. Besides the numerous health conditions associated with obesity, and the unpleasant exterior, it simply puts too much pressure on a person's body that's very hard ...
Staying motivated
By Steven Johnson · 13 years ago
When you first start thinking about losing weight, it's all kind of unreal and, somehow, it never feels as though it's going to be a problem. All you need do is diet and, as if ...
People giving up on health
By Steven Johnson · 13 years ago
Surveys are always interesting as a snapshot of what people claim to be thinking at any one time. Of course, some of us delight in giving all the wrong answers if someone is daft enough ...
The Truth Behind Hollywood Fad Diets
By Steven Johnson · 13 years ago
If you're considering one of the trendy diets, it's important to learn a bit about them first. First, find out if they work so you don't waste time, money, and go through an ordeal for ...
How to lose weight effectively?
By Steven Johnson · 13 years ago
When your BMI (Body Mass Index) has reached the value of 30 or more it's a serious cause for concern Such a value means that you're clinically obese and puts you in a high risk ...
Tips for weight loss
By Steven Johnson · 13 years ago
Well, you should now know exactly why you want to lose weight. Without a clear and convincing reason, you're never going to keep the motivation going when you start feeling hungry. It's a sad fact ...
The Most Popular Weight-loss Diets
By Steven Johnson · 13 years ago
Have you noticed that there are lots of dieters, but even more diets? That's because they are too difficult to stay on and, when you go off, the weight all comes back, plus some. The ...
Gaining better results in weight loss
By Steven Johnson · 13 years ago
Today the problem of obesity is becoming a matter of public health concern in most developed countries. Both adults and children turn into patients after being diagnosed with this condition. Statistical data indicate that only ...