Don’t you just love tabloid headlines? This is from The Sun, from 17th January 2011. The story is about the successful weight loss of a group of overweight residents of Rotherham, as town that was declared as one of Britain’s most obese towns. The success started after a new NHS drop-in slimming centre was opened in Rotherham. Statistics for the town showed that 1 in 3 people were either very overweight of obese. Rotherham...
The BBC reported today that Parents ‘do not recognise obesity in their children’. This is a surprisingly common problem, and part of the reason why schools started sending letters to the parents of overweight children in 2005 as part of the National Child Measurement Programme. There is still an idea that anyone under the age of 16 can carry “puppy” fat an be healthy, and that as soon as a child reaches adulthood the weight will...
Fitness DVD’s have been around for years now. Many people mock them, but they are really a good way to exercise. Today’s fitness DVD’s provide energetic workout routines which are well structured and also provide goon instruction on how to perform the exercises. Generally they are pitched at more than one level too, from beginner (unfit), to moderate (been exercising for a couple of months) to fit (generally fit people that want to get...
Love them or hate them, the tabloids always get straight to the point. Today Emma Morton, the Sun’s Science Editor, asks “Why Are British Women So Fat?”. This is a question that nutritionists and health researchers have been asking for a few years now. What is the real cause of obesity? We all know that eating too much food and not exercising leads to obesity, but why are some people more likely to eat...
Just lauched this month, January 2011, is a new company that arranges pay as you go gym passes for a range of gyms and health clubs in and around London. The company in question is PayAsUGym. It was founded by a few friends who felt that there were no longer enough opportunities for people to gain access to high quality fitness equipment without agreeing to an annual membership at a health club. Currently the service covers...
National Obesity Week started yesterday (Monday 17th Jan 2011), and this year it is actually going to run until Sunday 30th January. Various councils have organised events around the UK to help raise awareness about the dangers of obesity and look at ways to help people to lose weight and get fit. World Record For The Largest Dance The www.nationalobesityforum.org.uk provides details of all the main events. One of the most exciting ones is...
Watch it while you can: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00ksh7c/10_Things_You_Need_to_Know_About_Losing_Weight/ Available on BBC iplayer until 11:34PM Thu, 13 Jan 2011. You can currently watch them here. This 1 hour documentary looks at some scientifically proven ways to lose weight and highlights the fact that people who think that they cannot lose weight are just eating too much food. One woman that was followed thought that eating healthy food would help her to lose weight, but she remained very obese. When...
Today the BBC shared some research by psychologist Richard Wiseman from the University of Hertfordshire, which provides some mind tricks to help you stay on your New year diet. There is nothing revolutionary here, just a few simple changes you can make that really do help you to control your eating. You can watch the video presentation here: www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-12068595 Use a Smaller Plate Using a smaller plate is the easiest way to control eating. If...
Over the years much research has been carried out on the socio-environmental factors that lead to weight gain and obesity. One of the main findings in the last 5 years has been that a mothers influence is very powerful on the eating habits of a girl or young woman. It seems that girls are more likely to pick up on the eating habits of their mothers. This may be one of the reasons why...
Today on Cook Yourself Thin Gizzi Erskine, a food writer and weight loss expert, helped a Jamaican lady to change her cooking habits to aid weight loss. Just by making a few changes to her diet she helped one person to cut weekly calories by 5000kcal and which should result in a 1.5 stone weight loss over 2 months when combined with just 16 minutes of exercise. How is the weight loss calculated? Generally a...
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