“Losing weight fast is actually a simple process”, Hunter explained. He went on to say, “But simple is not necessarily easy. There is effort involved.”

The Registered Dietitian with over ten years of experience offers the following three weight loss keys to women for looking sexy in a Mini Skirt:

1) Exercise
Women can lose weight just by following a nutrition plan on its own but very few succeed at it and it takes much longer than when women eat properly and exercise as well. And not just getting on a treadmill for 30 minutes every other day. Though women can lose weight this way it is not the most efficient use of their time. Nor does it maximize the ability to burn calories. (more…)

Insisting that low-fat, low-cholesterol diets “are not and will never be safe,” Dr. Carlson sets out to correct this error with his expertise on low-carbohydrate dieting. Nine years of clinical experience treating patients suffering from obesity, diabetes, high blood pressure, and other common medical problems have provided him with the inspiration to impart millions of Americans with the knowledge they need to keep themselves healthy and, most importantly, alive.

In lay terms, Dr. Carlson provides biological arguments for why low-carb diets work while low-fat, low-protein diets cause millions of deaths each year - the equivalent of “genocide” in the author’s opinion. Genocide: How Your Doctor’s Dietary Ignorance Will Kill You could be a life changing book for the American population.

For more information or to request a free review copy, members of the press can contact the author at n3ulf007 @ aol.com. Genocide: How Your Doctor’s Dietary Ignorance Will Kill You is available for sale online at Amazon.com, BookSurge.com, and through additional wholesale and retail channels worldwide. (more…)

What should a consumer look for in a bariatric program? Here are five tips from Nick Nicholson, M.D., medical director of weight loss surgery program at Baylor Regional Medical Center at Plano, an American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery (ASMBS) Bariatric Surgery Center of Excellence®.

Take your time choosing a program.
Weight loss surgery is a not a magic bullet but requires life style changes to be effective. A good-quality program will tell you up front about the different options for weight loss surgery and the post-operative work – exercise and changes in diet – required for each option. Weight loss surgery is not an emergency, take time to thoughtfully consider at least two programs.

Be flexible.
Consult with a surgeon or surgeons who perform more than one type of weight loss surgery. As a consumer, you can select gastric bypass, adjustable gastric banding or the gastric sleeve procedure. “One procedure may be more effective for you than another, so explore all options,” urges Dr. Nicholson.

Numbers do matter.
Numerous studies have shown that complication rates from weight loss surgery are highly dependent on the surgeon’s prior experience. Because previous experience is tantamount to success, ask your surgeon how many of each proposed operations he or she has performed.

Chemistry matters.
In many general surgical cases, you have limited interaction with your surgeon. Not so with weight loss surgery. You may see your surgeon at least four or five times in the first year. Be sure that the surgeon and support staff is genuinely interested in you and your success.

Support matters, too.
To succeed, weight loss surgery requires hard work from you. What support can you expect post-surgery? Does the program offer support groups, psychological support, exercise or physical therapy? Are dietitians involved to help you develop better eating habits and food plans? “I frequently tell our patients that 90 percent of their long-term success is in their hands, not mine,” says Dr. Nicholson.

For more information about Baylor Regional Medical Center at Plano, visit http://www.BaylorHealth.com.

Participants in this informative teleseminar will hear firsthand, from Karas, why running and aerobics may not be as effective as people think. They will explore how the heart and body respond to stress and the relationship between interval training, building lean muscle and burning calories.

The Business Plan for the Body

Jim Karas is the Fitness Contributor on ABC’s “Good Morning America” show and author of New York Times bestseller “The Business Plan for the Body” and “Flip the Switch”. He is the creator of the Cardio Free Diet exercise programs and is a regular featured expert contributor on nationally syndicated news and entertainment shows including CNN, Entertainment Tonight and Access Hollywood.

Karas has worked with over 500 celebrity and personal training clients to produce results and individual success stories. This feat is crowned with the fact that Allure magazine named Jim Karas as one of the top personal trainers in the country and his work has been featured in Vogue, “O” The Oprah Magazine, Time, People, Men’s Health and Elle. (more…)

Conjugated linoleic acid (CLA), a compound naturally found in some meat and dairy products, can reduce body fat in some studies in humans. But a recent study in mice found that the hormone leptin adds an element of protection against side effects that can accompany fat loss with CLA.

Without leptin, fat loss occurs in mice eating a diet containing CLA, but the mice also become insulin resistant. When mice are fed CLA and given leptin, the same fat loss occurs but insulin resistance does not develop.

So though leptin is not essential to the fat loss, it has important protective effects to maintain insulin sensitivity, said Martha Belury, lead author of the study and associate professor of human nutrition at Ohio State University.

“Fat loss is not dependent on leptin but if we didn’t have leptin, CLA could have some short-term effects on insulin resistance,” Belury said. (more…)

Valtrex is used to treat infections caused by herpes viruses. Illnesses caused by herpes viruses include genital herpes, cold sores, shingles, and chicken pox. Take the full Valtrex prescription, even if you feel better and the symptoms improve. Valtrex may also be used for other purposes not listed in this medication guide.

Valaciclovir (INN) or valacyclovir (USAN) is an antiviral drug used in the management of herpes simplex and herpes zoster (shingles). Valtrex medication provides a proven way to reduce the risk of spreading genital herpes to a partner.It is a prodrug, being converted in vivo to aciclovir. It is marketed by GlaxoSmithKline under the trade name Valtrex or Zelitrex.

Valtrex medicine is offered in 500mg and 1gram tablets, the active ingredient being valacyclovir hydrochloride, with the inactive ingredients carnauba wax, colloidal silicon dioxide, crospovidone, FD&C Blue No. 2 Lake, hypromellose, magnesium stearate, microcrystalline cellulose, polyethylene glycol, polysorbate 80, povidone, and titanium dioxide

1. Don’t rush into the toughest diet you can find.
This is a common mistake. Many people decide in a moment of desperation to follow a super-strict diet and fail. Don’t rush into a diet that may be too strict for you. If you don’t have any dieting experience and are not 100 percent sure you can stick with the diet, then choose something else.

2. Don’t lose touch with reality.
You can’t realistically expect things to happen over night. When choosing your goal, start small, but be prepared to go far. If you hear someone saying that he lost a large number of pounds in a short time, don’t make it your goal to match his performance. Diet results are different from one person to another.

3. Don’t go to the gym too often
Another common mistake is to use the enthusiasm of the first days to hit the gym every day. This won’t help you at all. Your body needs time to heal and expand the muscle mass after each training session and going to the gym every day interferes with this natural process. Besides, a week of non-stop training could never offset ten or twenty years of couch potato lifestyle. (more…)

Recent research quoted by the Journal of the American Heart Association showed that a very good way of decreasing the risk of developing the metabolic syndrome is to perform moderate to higher levels of cardio fitness on a regular basis. The basic cardio exercise that anybody can perform is a half an hour of brisk walking five days per week. This is about as easy as it gets if you want to enjoy a moderate level of cadriorespiratory fitness in your life and keep away heart problems and diabetes.

While it’s true that the genetic make-up determines the individual fitness levels, regular cardio training can lower the risk of metabolic syndrome even in people who are predisposed to develop this condition. Naturally, the move vigorous the exercise, the higher the benefits. Walking is good if you’re not willing to try very hard. Swimming, biking, jogging or hiking are even better for you as the heart gets used to more effort and builds up endurance. Exercising also lowers cholesterol levels and helps burn fat. (more…)

Well, if you want to lose weight, you have to have a plan. You have to set some goals and pursue them. And you have to be patient. There is no such a thing as fast weight loss. You cannot take a pill and get rid of all the fat deposits in a matter of weeks or months. Your body just doesn’t work this way.

Here is a good plan with all the things you will have to do to lose weight safely and effective:

1. Exercise.
This is nothing new really, but exercise is probably the most important predictor of whether you will succeed at long term weight loss and weight loss maintenance. In order for exercise to be helpful in weight loss, you should strive for a minimum of five 30-minute sessions per week. The good news is that recent research has shown that three 10-minute sessions in a day are as good as one 30-minute session. (more…)

It’s absolutely important that our body gets the nutrients it needs to function effectively and efficiently. However in this modern time it has become more distinct that we tend to supercede health with convenience and instant gratification. In this fast paced world where career and education demands all our time, we learn to favor what’s quick and easy to obtain especially when it comes to food. We turn to fast foods and junk foods instead of the good old balance daily diet. The lack of balanced diet in addition to the daily stress of pollution depletes our body of nutrients. Is it any wonder why cancer and other chronic diseases became rampant during the turn of the century? It’s up to us to replace these nutrients. We can do this through healthy nutrition, or better yet, through healthy nutrition and proper supplementation.

For the average person, it’s difficult to get the proper amount of nutrients needed from food alone. Have you ever wondered how many people actually eat five to ten vegetables and fruits a day? (more…)