what is you healthy weight?
Posted by healthy digger on Oct 23, 2007
A healthy weight is important to prevent health
problems like high blood pressure, heart disease, stroke,
diabetes, certain types of cancer, arthritis, and breathing
problems. Choose a lifestyle that combines healthy
eating with regular physical activity. By balancing the
calories you eat with physical activity, you can maintain
a healthy weight which is key to a healthy life.
Weight-loss pills: What can diet aids do for you?
Posted by healthy digger on Oct 23, 2007
“Why did your last diet fail?” asks the woman in the Relacore commercial, tilting her head sympathetically. Aw, she understands: It’s just so darn hard to lose weight. Well, you’re in luck, because Relacore is the self-proclaimed “number one belly-fat pill across America.” What a relief! You can forget about the treadmill and the Tasti D-Lite — all you really need to slim down is a handful of diet pills!
Pills that promise to make you thin have been big business ever since 1950s housewives got hooked on amphetamines. But now we’re seeing a swarm of new ones, from TrimSpa to Relacore to NV. Americans spent nearly $2 billion last year on weight-loss drugs and supplements, according to the pharmaceutical consulting company IMS Health and the Nutrition Business Journal. (To put it in perspective: That’s the same amount the government is proposing be set aside for wildlife conservation in 2007.) But can you really find thinness in a bottle? And how does this stuff affect your health? Here’s the dope on the five major kinds of weight-loss pills out there — and why you should examine those “before” and “after” shots with a more critical eye.
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