Archive for January, 2007

Healthy Eating and Diet Tips: Part 1

Healthy Eating and Diet Tips: Part 1With the best of intentions, many of us kick-start the new year with a diet. Not long after, many of us serve ourselves mega-doses of self-recrimination as we give it up.

It’s not our fault. Many experts—dietitians, nutritionists and doctors—agree that diets just don’t work.

They set up a cycle of deprivation and frustration that can lead to yo-yo dieting, binge eating and weight gain instead of weight loss. (more…)

Coffee Detox

Coffee DetoxMost of the time detox diets are not necessary and can even be harmful. Drinking coffee, while not part of a typical detox diet, may actually help “detox� your liver from alcohol.

Though coffee isn’t a reliable hangover cure, it may help heavy drinkers anyway by protecting (more…)

Tyra Banks: Weight Gain, Fat and a Picture

Tyra Banks: Weight Gain, Fat and PicturesSo what is the truth behind Tyra’s recent weight gain? Did it really happen?

Are the rumors true? Did she really gain 40 pounds? Does she care either way?

In “You Call This Fat?â€? (People magazine, Feb, 2007), Tyra Banks talks about gaining weight, addresses her (more…)

Oxia: Energy Boost in a Can

Oxia: Energy Boost in a CanAccording to Oxygen magazine, Hollywood A-listers have a new addiction. No, it is not a stronger version of Clenbuterol or some peculiar workout routine.

What is it? “It is called Oxia, and it is the world’s smallest personal oxygen dispenser.

Celebs who just cannot get enough of their personal (more…)

BOSU Ball Exercises

BOSU Ball ExercisesAs promised in BOSU Ball, here are some BOSU ball exercises for you to try.

Plank (abs)

Begin with the flat side of the BOSU facing up. Make a fist with both hands and rest your forearms on top of the BOSU so that your thumbs are facing up. (more…)