You may have read about Dubai offering their citizens gold for every kilogram of weight they lost. While this is a nice incentive to lose weight – for sure – this isn’t an option for everyone. We’re going to go over some other incentives to shed the pounds and get healthy. If you’re still not convinced that losing weight is important after reading, no one’s...
We all like to think that we make our own decisions based on our own beliefs and opinions. But, just how much do other people’s opinions affect our own? A new study in the Journal of Consumer Research says we aren’t quite as independent-minded as we think. Not only can others’ negative opinions of a product or service sway us from good to bad, but even from bad to worse (maybe...
Anorexia is not necessarily a gender thing. Er… what I mean is that this desire to lose weight (and look thinner) is not necessarily restricted to women. This was brought home in watching the movie ‘Seabiscuit’, with Tobey Maguire playing the role of a jockey. And man, they hardly eat anything! Even if they do, they vomit it out in the morning just before race time. It’s bizarre how much...
When one is seemingly obsessed with drugs and alcohol, out come the labels ‘addiction’, ‘substance abuse’ and so on and so forth but when an unrecognized illness that is known as orthorexia, when one is far too obsessed to eat only healthy foods to the point when one slips up, the person overcompensates by taking an extreme form of action such as fasting and so on and so...
Are you getting increasingly worried about your weight? Getting more and more desperate to lose those extra pounds and get back in shape? But all those magic weight loss products are turning out to be nothing but rip-offs? And taking out time for the exercise or low calorie diet preparation sounds next to impossible because of your hectic schedule? And you hardly find any energy in your system...
