Medicines can double your chances of quitting – although this is still a 20 per cent success rate at 12 months, rather than 10 percent.
There are few types of pharmaceutical products to help you quit, for example, nicotine replacement therapy.
But it has to be dark, and it takes only a small amount to help.
Dr. Laura Svetkey, director of Duke University’s Hypertension Center stressed that the study results should not be viewed as license to gorge on chocolate. “I would be as happy as the next person if I got to eat more chocolate,” she said, but cautioned that weight gain from eating large amounts of dark chocolate would counteract any benefits on blood pressure.
What is obesity?
Obesity is a heavy accumulation of fat in the body’s fat cells to such a serious degree that it rapidly increases the risk of obesity-associated diseases and mortality.
Successful Weight Loss: Top 10 Tips On What Works & Why
09 Jul
Posted by Inna Korshunova as Weight Loss
For many people weight loss is a chronic endeavor. All too often the shedding of pounds is a temporary event followed by a steady regain of lost weight. Most popular diets are unsuccessful in the long run because they fail to address the multi-faceted nature of what successful, permanent weight loss entails. Luckily, research has revealed many invaluable strategies which can help increase your odds of permanent weight loss.
Many smokers are worried they will put on weight if they stop smoking, but in reality only a small number put on more than a few pounds.
Exercise plays a key role in treating diabetes, particularly in Type 2.Type 2 diabetes is becoming increasingly common and appears to be related to the growing number of people who are overweight.
You will soon notice changes in your physical wellbeing when you quit smoking.Within a day or so of quitting your body gets rid of all the poisonous carbon monoxide gas found in cigarette smoke. As a result, oxygen levels in your blood increase and this will improve the appearance of your complexion.
Smoking also constricts blood vessels, so your blood will begin to flow more easily. If you have poor circulation, this means your fingers and toes won’t feel the cold as much.
Your sleep will improve once you are over the initial withdrawal symptoms. Your sense of taste and smell will improve quickly – so much so you may start to be irritated by others’ smoke and the way it clings to your clothes and hair.
A visitor from a far-off planet observing the way we behave could easily assume that dieting is a very good idea. We do it all the time.Dieting is so popular that in the past 10 years it’s estimated that around 70 per cent of the adult female population and 30 per cent of all adult males have been on one.
It doesn’t seem to matter whether it’s the Atkins diet or liquid diets, people will try almost anything in their frantic desire to shed a few pounds.
Unfortunately, the results are usually the same. Although diets do produce results in the short term, very few dieters maintain their weight loss, no matter which diet they try.
Diet Success Stories: Real Life Strategies For Sustainable Weight Loss
07 Jul
Posted by Inna Korshunova as Weight Loss
Everybody knows someone who has lost a substantial amount of weight. But how much of that weight did they actually keep off? Here are three real-life anecdotes from “successful losers†who maintained their weight loss for 6 months or more.
Although there are differences in treatment for Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes, the dietary advice for managing both types is the same.
Much has been written on what type of diet is best for diabetes, to the extent that it can all seem a bit daunting.
Although a carbohydrate-controlled diet used to be suggested, there is now no special diabetes diet.
Instead your diet should be based on the same principles of healthy eating that everyone should follow.
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