The new year always serves as a reminder to recalibrate goals for the upcoming calendar, whether that is focusing on healthy eating or incorporating more exercise into your routine. When most people hear the word exercise, its easy to associate it with running, biking, weight lifting or other strenuous activities as a means to stay healthy.

But, walking has health benefits of its own, especially when performed each day. We will discuss how walking can improve various aspects of your mental and physical health and if you really need to take 10,000 steps per day to experience benefits.

For people who dont like running or biking, a brisk walk each day can benefit your entire body, from your mood and memory down to your bones and joints. In fact, walking five to six miles a week can keep your joints strong and lubricated to help reduce arthritis symptoms.

You may not typically associate walking with weight loss, but it can be an important part of your weight loss journey when combined with a diet plan. From a mental health standpoint, walking everyday can also help reduce stress and improve your sleep patterns.

Any type of exercise is good for your heart health, and regular walking is a great way to manage heart disease, high blood pressure, high cholesterol or diabetes. Studies have also shown walking every day can lower your risk of weight gain and breast cancer and help boost immune system function.

The human body has dozens and dozens of obesity-promoting genes associated with body mass index that can lead to weight gain. Researchers at Harvard University found the effects of these genes were cut in half in people who walked at a moderate pace for an hour each day.

Years ago, the American Cancer Society published a study that found women who walked at least seven hours per week had a 14 percent lower risk of breast cancer compared to those who walked three hours or fewer per week.

Walking for 20 minutes a day, five days a week has also been linked to 43 percent fewer sick days compared to people who walked just once a week.

How many calories you burn while walking depends on your pace, weight and distance. For example, a 125-pound person wont burn as many calories as a 185-pound person. You will also burn more calories the faster you walk or the farther you walk.

Here are some examples, according to Harvard Health.

17-minute mile pace

15-minute mile

With the rise in popularity of pedometers, Apple Watches and FitBits, many Americans are focused on their step count more than ever before.

It used to be that 10,000 steps was the magic number to walk each day. That translates to 4 to 5 miles, depending on the person and the stride length. However, a study published in JAMA Network Open revealed just 7,000 steps a day had a 50% to 70% lower risk of premature death. The study was comprehensive, too, as it followed more than 2,000 people for an average of nearly 11 years.

Although this is only one study, some experts believe 10,000 steps was created solely as a marketing tool and a soft goal to set as opposed to a hard-and-fast rule.

Instead of focusing on step count, try to achieve 150 minutes of moderate activity a week, per recommendations from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Walking may seem like a simple task since we all do it each day, but there is a right way and a wrong way to walk.

To maximize your benefits, youll want to ensure you walk with a good posture and have an appropriate stride length too short will result in choppy steps, while too long can be more taxing on your feet and lower body.

Hold your head up straight over your shoulders, being sure not to tilt it down this means dont stare down at your phone when walking! Relax your shoulders, neck and back and keep them in a natural position.

With each step, swing your arms and slightly bend your elbows. You want your arms and hands relaxed, but not too relaxed to the point of dangling at your side. Engage your core as you walk. You can practice this by squeezing your abdominal muscles as if youre about to receive a gut punch. In terms of foot strike, roll your foot from heel to toe in a smooth fashion.

If you plan on walking several miles a day, its beneficial to invest in quality shoes that can provide arch support and cushion for your feet. Comfortable, but slightly loose-fitting clothing, works well for walking.

For walking beginners, start out slow with small goals and incrementally work your way up. Take a five-minute walk on your lunch break or when you get home from work. Even if its only a few blocks, everyone has to start somewhere! Sooner than later, two blocks will become two miles and your stamina and endurance will surprise you.

Youll notice the health benefits as you begin to increase your distance and duration. Once you can walk several miles at a time, focus on increasing your pace to lower the time it takes to walk a mile. The faster you walk, the better workout your heart receives.

Try to incorporate interval walking as you progress in your journey. As an example, walk your normal pace for five minutes followed by a faster pace for two to three minutes before returning to your base pace. The change in speed can burn more calories than your typical leisurely walk.

If you ever find your walking routine to be monotonous, change your environment up by walking at a park or a different neighborhood than your own. A walking route with rolling hills or an incline can provide you with a welcomed change of pace that will also increase your heart rate.

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Fasting has been in practice for several centuries, says Dr Michael Greger (MD) in his video titled "How to lower Blood Pressure naturally with lifestyle changes". He cites the case study of 18 obese patients who had been put through prolonged (60 days) therapeutic starvation in the 1970s to illustrate several clinical observations.

Dr Greger is a physician, New York Times bestsellingauthor, and internationally recognized speaker on nutrition, food safety, and public health issues. A founding member and Fellow of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine, Dr Greger is licensed as a general practitioner specializing in clinical nutrition.

One of the consistent side effects he says that the early researchers into the "fasting for weight loss studies" (water-only diets closely monitored by medical experts) was a fall in blood pressure. Dr Greger says that the studies showed how patients diagnosed with hypertension who were on fasting had to completely STOP taking blood pressure medicines or the pressure would drop to dangerously low levels.

Once you start taking food again, Dr Greger says, the blood pressure would go right back up BUT remarkably, NOT as high as they were before.

Other benefits of fasting (apart from weight loss):

Natural approaches to lowering high blood pressure can work better than drugs because youre treating the underlying cause and can end up having only good side effects.Dr Greger cites the case of a woman who was afflicted so severely by Rheumatoid Arthritis that ALMOST every joint and bone in her body hurt. She decided to go on to medically supervised fasting. At that time, her blood pressure was in the range of 170/80 mm Hg and she was on medication for hypertension and arthritis. She weighed 106.6 kg.

The woman --then weaned off all medication -- lost 9.1 kg during the 8 weeks of dietary intervention before beginning the fast.

At the start of the fast, her weight stood at 94.5 kg and her blood pressure was 130/78 mm HG without medication.

Within 4 days of the fast, her arthritic pain decreased and her pressure dropped. After 24 days of fasting, the woman had lost 84.5 kg and her blood pressure had normalised to 110/80 mm Hg. She is on no medication and remains in remission.

Stick to healthier eating to retain gains made through fasting:The effect of fasting to lower blood pressure compared to medications, cutting down on alcohol, meat and salt, eating more fruits and vegetables, or eating completely plant-based is far stronger, it is apparent. But Dr Greger says that to retain the benefit would be easier for those who follow up the preliminary fast to long-term compliance with health-protective diets -- which unfortunately has little appeal to people accustomed to or meretriciously salty and greasy meals.

Re-sensitised nerves will help you say no to greasy, salty foods:A whole food plant-based diet can be used to help lock in the benefits of fasting to kickstart the reversal of high blood pressure. So what Dr Greger here is hinting at is much similar to the purification and detoxification rituals prescribed in Ayurveda. He speaks of how the water-only diet is a period of sensory deprivation for taste nerves. After just a week of water-only fasting, regular, normal, healthy food feels and tastes good again. It re-sensitises our taste buds so that we can eat things that taste great and with less guilt.

Disclaimer: Tips and suggestions mentioned in the article are for general information purposes only and should not be construed as professional medical advice. Always consult your doctor or a professional healthcare provider if you have any specific questions about any medical matter.

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HSA detected and seized Speedy Slim Capsules (Black) and Speedy Slim Capsules (Gold) following feedback from members of the public that there were unapproved slimming products being sold on Instagram.

These products made exaggerated claims such as target at breaking down stubborn extra fat, cut off starch absorption, and losing weight and clearing fat.

Theywere subsequentlyfound to contain very high levels of sibutramine, a prescription-only weight loss medicine that has been banned since 2010 due to an increased risk of heart attack and stroke.

Other serious adverse effects reported in the past by consumers who took products adulterated with sibutramine include insomnia and hallucinations.

In 2019, a consumer experienced extremely fast heart rate and became unconscious. She was resuscitated and suffered debilitating consequences, including requiring the implantation of a defibrillator (a medical device) to help her heart to function.

Those who have taken Speedy Slim Capsules are advised to stop consuming them immediately and consult a doctor if they feel unwell or are concerned about their health.

"There is no quick and easy way to lose weight," said HSA.

"Weight control should be achieved through a combination of balanced diet and appropriate exercise. Those who need help managing their weight should consult a doctor, dietitian or a healthcare professional."

It added that consumers should be wary of products that carry exaggerated claims or deliver unexpectedly quick results, such as fast weight loss or immediate pain relief. This is because they can contain potent ingredients that can seriously harm your health.

Consumers should also exercise caution when buying such products online or from well-meaning friends as they cannot be certain where and how these products were made and whether they have been adulterated with harmful ingredients.

All sellers and suppliers must stop selling these products immediately, added HSA.

The authority said it will not hesitate to take stern enforcement actions against anyone who sells and/or supplies products found to be adulterated with potent medicinal ingredients.

Sellers and suppliers can be prosecuted. If convicted, they can be jailed for up to 3 years and/or fined up to S$100,000.

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By , medical review by Updated December 5, 2021 Do you have trouble losing weight? Or would you like to lose faster? Youve come to the right place. Get ready for weight loss without hunger.

Our conventional ideas about weight loss eat less, move more require a lot of willpower. Counting calories, exercising for hours every day and trying to ignore your hunger? At DietDoctor, we believe thats needless suffering, and likely a waste of your time and precious energy.

Eventually people often give up. An excessive focus on counting calories has certainly not done much to reverse our current obesity epidemic. Fortunately there may be a better way.

The bottom line? Calories are not the only things that count in weight loss. Your weight is also hormonally regulated. If you reduce your hunger and the levels of your fat-storing hormone, insulin, youll likely have an easier time losing excess weight.

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Are you ready? Here we go. Start at the top of the list (most important) and go down as far as you need. Click on any tip to read all about it. Perhaps you only need the first piece of advice?

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This guide is written for adults with health issues, including obesity, that could benefit from losing weight.

We dont recommend counting calories, which is controversial. To learn more about the rationale for this, see our guide on restricting calories for weight loss.

Controversial topics related to a low-carb diet, and our take on them, include saturated fats, cholesterol, whole grains, red meat and whether the brain needs carbohydrates.

If you want to lose weight, consider starting by avoiding sugar and starch (like bread, pasta and potatoes). This is an old idea: for 150 years or more there have been a huge number of weight-loss diets based on eating fewer carbs. Whats new is that reviews of modern scientific studies have repeatedly shown that low carb is at least as good, if not better, than other approaches to diet.

Obviously, its still possible to lose weight on any diet just eat fewer calories than you burn, right? The problem with this simplistic advice is that it ignores the elephant in the room: hunger. Most people dont like to just eat less, as it may result in having to go hungry forever. Sooner or later, many will likely give up and eat without restriction, hence the prevalence of yo-yo dieting. While it should be possible to lose weight on any diet, some appear to make it easier and some to make it much harder.

The main advantage of the low-carb diet is that it may cause you to want to eat less. Even without counting calories, overweight people tend to eat fewer calories on low carb. Thus, calories count, but you dont need to count them.

A 2012 study also showed that people who had lost weight experienced far less reduction in total energy expenditure (the number of calories burned within a 24-hour period) when they followed a low-carb diet compared to a low-fat diet during weight maintenance a 300-calorie difference, in fact.

According to one of the Harvard professors behind the study, this advantagewould equal the number of calories typically burned in an hour of moderate-intensity physical activity. Imagine that: an entire bonus hour of exercise every day, without actually exercising.

Recently, an even larger and more carefully conducted study confirmed this metabolism-sparing effect, with different groups of people who had lost weight burning an average of between 200 and almost 500 extra calories per day on a low-carb maintenance diet compared to a high-carb or moderate-carb diet.

Bottom line: A low-carb diet can reduce your hunger, making it easier to eat less. And it might even increase your fat burning at rest. Study after study shows that low carb works for weight loss and that on average itimproves important health markers.

Why low carb can help you lose weight

How to lose weight with a low-carb diet

Do you want to know more about exactly what to eat on low carb, how to do it, potential problems and solutions and find lots of great recipes? Check out our keto for beginners guide. Alternatively, you can make low carb even simpler by signing up for our free two-week keto challenge.

Eating when hungry sounds simple:if youre not hungry, you probably dont need to eat yet.

When on a low-carb or keto diet you can trust your feelings of hunger and satiety again something many people following a low-fat or standard American diet cannot do. Feel free to eat as many or as few times per day as you feel is right for you.

Some people eat three times a day and occasionallysnackin between (note that frequent snacking could mean that youd benefit from adding protein, fibrous veggies, or extra fat calories to your meals, to increase satiety). However, theres some evidence that frequent snacking may not be wise when trying to lose weight.Some people only eat once or twice a day and never snack. Whatever works for you. Just eat when youre hungry, and dont eat when you arent.

It also helps that low-carb diets and higher protein diets tend to reduce hunger.

Studies demonstrate that people eating a very low-carb, ketogenic diet reduce their feelings of hunger and the amount of food they eat.

Multiple other studies demonstrate that adding protein to your diet markedly reduces hunger and food intake.

Our suggestion? Try a low-carb, higher protein approach and see what happens to your hunger levels.

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Remember: an effective low-carb diet for weight loss should be based primarily onwhole food.

Prioritize what humans have been eating for thousands or likely millions of years, e.g. meat, fish, vegetables, eggs, butter, olives, nuts etc.

If you want to lose weight, avoid special low-carb products that are full of carbs.This should be obvious, but creative marketers are doing all they can to fool you (and get your money). They will tell you that you can eat cookies, pasta, ice cream, bread and plenty of chocolate on a low-carb diet, as long as you buy their brand. Theyre often full of carbohydrates. Dont be fooled.

How about low-carb bread? Be careful: if its baked with grains its certainlynot low carb. But some companies still try to sell it to you as a low-carb option.

Low-carb chocolate is usually full of a kind of sugar alcohol maltitol that may actually be partially absorbed by the body, but which the manufacturer does not count as carbs. If the maltitol is absorbed, it is likely to raise blood sugar and insulin levels. The remaining carbs end up in the colon, potentially causing gas and diarrhea.

While low-carb chocolate made with erythritol or stevia is likely to be okay, you still have to consider that any sweeteners can maintain sugar cravings.

Two simple rules to avoid being tricked into purchasing unhealthy low carb products:

Focus on eating good quality, minimally processed real food. Ideally the food you buy shouldnt evenhave a list of ingredients (or it should be very short).

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Finally you may want to forget about the old everything in moderation diet motto.It isnt necessarily helpful advice for people who struggle with weight in fact, it may be exactly the opposite.

Dont eat everything in moderation. Eat as much healthy food as you can, whenever you are hungry. Eat as little unhealthy food as you can if possible, none at all.

Unnecessary snacking can be a problem on a low-carb diet too. Some things are easy to eat just because theyre tasty and readily available. Here are three common traps to watch out for on a low-carb or keto diet:

Do you have to eat breakfast? Research has confirmed that the answer is no. Dont eat if youre not hungry. And this goes for any meal.

On a strict low-carb diet the hunger and urge to eat tend to decrease significantly. If this happens, be happy! Dont fight it by eating food you dont want. Instead, wait for the hunger to return before you eat again. This will save you both time and money, while speeding up your weight loss.

Some people fear that they will lose control if they dont eat every three hours. The concern that this urge to binge will blow their diets completely leads them to obsessively snack all the time.

This constant snacking may be necessary in order to control the hunger and craving that may arise during a diet high in sugar and starchy carbs, but itsusually unnecessary on a low-carb diet. Hunger will only slowly return and you should have plenty of time to prepare food or grab a snack.

Bottom line: To lose weight in a sustainable way, eat when youre hungry but only when youre hungry.Forget the clock and listen to your body instead.

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5. Measure your progress wisely

Tracking successful weight loss is sometimes trickier than youd think. Focusing primarily on weight and stepping on the scale every day might be misleading, cause unnecessary anxiety, and undermine your motivation for no good reason.

The scale is not necessarily your friend. You may want to lose fat but the scale measures muscles, bone and internal organs as well. Gaining muscle is a good thing. Thus weight orBMIare imperfect ways to measure your progress. This is especially trueif youre just coming off a long period of semi-starvation (which may accompany calorie-counting), as your body may want to restore lost muscle. Starting weight training and gaining muscle can also hide your fat loss.

Losing fat and gaining muscle means great progress, but you may miss this if you only measure your weight. Thus its best to quantify body composition as you lose weight. You can do this with a DEXA scan, hydrostatic weights, plethysmography scales and others. But if these are not available, it is smart to also track the disappearance of your belly fat, by measuring yourwaist circumference.

I recommend aiming for good but its not always realistic. Young people can usually achieve this, but for some middle-aged or older people, it may be a major victory to get all the way to decent.

I suggest measuring your waist circumference and weight before starting your weight-loss journey and then perhaps once a week or once a month. Write the results down so that you can track your progress.If you want, you can measure more areas: around the buttocks, the chest, the arms, legs, etc.

Please note that your weight can fluctuate up and down several pounds from day to day, depending on fluid balance and digestive system contents. Dont worry about short-term changes, follow the long-term trend instead.

These markers are frequently improved on a low-carb diet, even before major weight loss. Re-checking these health markers after a few months can be great for your motivation astheyll usually showthat youre not just losing weight, youre gaining health too.

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It usually takes years or decades to gain a lot of weight. Trying to lose it all as quickly as possible by starving yourself does not necessarily work well in the long term; instead it may be a recipe for yo-yo dieting.

In addition, you need to set realistic expectations for health and weight loss goals. You can read more in our detailed guide on realistic expectations.

Its common to lose2-6 pounds (1-3 kg) within the first weekon a strict low-carb diet, and then on average aboutone pound (0.5 kg) per week as long as you have a lot of weight remaining to lose. This translates into about 50 pounds (23 kilos) per year. However, weight loss doesnt occur at this rate in everyone.

Every 5 pounds of fat loss roughly equals 1 inch lost around the waist (1 kilo = 1 cm).

Young males sometimes lose weight faster than this, perhaps twice as fast. Post-menopausal women may lose at a slower pace. People on a very strict low-carb diet may lose weight quicker, as well as those who exercise a lot (a bonus). And if you have an enormous amount of excess weight to lose, you could start out much faster although initially, some of the weight you lose will be due to water loss.

As you get closer to your ideal weight, the loss may slow down until you stabilize at a weight that your body feels is right. Very few people become underweight on a low-carb diet as long as they eat when hungry.

Are you coming off a period of semi-starvation (which can occur with calorie-counting)? Focus on your waist circumference and health markers (see tip #4) at first, as it sometimes takes several weeks before weight loss is apparent.

Expect weight-loss plateaus: months where nothing seems to happen on the scale. Everybody hits them. Stay calm. Keep doing what youre doing and eventually things should start happening again (if not, check out the other 17 tips).

More: Top 10 tips top break a weight loss stall

Losing a lot of weight long term and keeping it off will likely not happen unless youchange your habits forever. If you lose weight and then return to living exactly the way you did when you gained weight, dont be surprised when the excess weight returns. It normally will.

Maintaining weight loss usually requires long-term change and patience. As tempting as it may be, dont fall forone of these magical diet scams.

Forget quick fixes:If you lose some weight every month, eventually you may get rid of all your excess weight.Thats inevitable progress. Thats what you want.

PS: Long-term change is hardest in the beginning, especially during the first couple of weeks. Its like quitting smoking. Once you develop new habits it becomes easier and easier every week. Eventually it may come naturally.

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7. Avoid overeating fruit

This piece of advice is controversial, as fruit has an almost magical health aura today. While fruit does contain fiber, antioxidants, and important vitamins, it also contains a fair amount of sugar around 10% by weight (the rest is mostly water). Just taste an orange or a grape. Sweet, right?

Eating whole fruits in moderation especially ones that are low in sugar, like berries can absolutely be part of a healthy diet. The soluble fiber in fruit can help with short-term satiety; it also reacts with water in your gut to form a thick gel that helps delay and reduce the amount of sugar absorbed from that fruit. In fact, up to 30% of the sugar from fruit may not be absorbed.

Larger quantities of fruit, however, will deliver a significant sugar load to your intestines. Even if only 70% of that sugar is absorbed, 70% of a big number is still a big number. For example, five servings of fruit per day can be equivalent to the amount of sugar in 16 ounces (500 ml) of soda 52 grams of sugar!

Most people believe that fruit is natural, but todays fruits in the grocery store have very little in common with what fruits looked like before they were cultured. Modern domesticated fruits are larger, less bitter, and have thinner peels and smaller seeds. This makes them tastier and easier to eat and because of their increased size, they may provide more sugar per piece of fruit than their earlier counterparts.

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Beer contains rapidly digested carbsthat shut down fat burning. That may be why beer is sometimes referred to as liquid bread. Theres a good reason for the term beer belly.

Here aresmarter (lower-carb) alcoholic optionswhen trying to lose weight:

These drinks hardly contain any sugar or digestible carbohydrates so theyre better than beer. However, large amounts of alcohol might slow weight loss, so moderation is still a good idea.

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9. Avoid non-caloric sweeteners

According to scientific studies,non-caloric sweeteners mayincrease appetite and maintain cravings for sweet food. And one recent independent study showed that switching drinks with non-caloric sweeteners to water helped women lose weight.

Study: Avoiding diet beverages helps women lose weight

This may be related to the increased insulin secretion seen with some non-caloric sweeteners. Maybe that is why something odd happened when I tested Pepsi Max.

If youre having trouble losing weight, I suggest that you avoid sweeteners. As a bonus, youll likely find it easier to enjoy the natural sweetness of real food, once youre no longer adapted to the overpowering sweetness of processed low-carb food products and diet sodas.

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If you want to lose weight, a simple bathroom scale may be key, research shows. Indeed, this study published in the journal Obesity found that daily self-weighing can produce clinically significant weight loss, while another published in the Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics concluded that: Weighing every day matters: daily weighing improves weight loss and adoption of weight control behaviors. And a recent study of more than 1,000 people over the course of a year from the American Heart Association found that people who never weighed themselves or only weighed once a week did not lose weight, while those that did it six to seven times a week had a significant weight loss. With that in mind, we asked doctors and nutritionists which bathroom scales they recommend.

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Not sure which scale to pick? The key is not necessarily the exact number [on the scale] but being able to track the change, says Young, about monitoring weight loss and weight gain. Ask yourself do you care if it connects to your phone or not? Everyone has different needs also depending on how tech savvy they are, she says, adding that this non-wifi option is one of the best. Its cheap, reliable, and accurate.

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The first thought of most people when they hear the words weight loss is great, fat deposits melt! However, we need to know that there are two types of weight loss, and these are intentional and unintentional. In this article, we are going to focus on unintentional.

Before you start looking forward to losing weight without making the slightest effort, ask yourself what it is and listen to your body because sudden weight loss that is not caused by a change in lifestyle is rarely a good sign.

This, of course, does not mean that you need to raise the alarm if you lose a few pounds, but if it is 10% of your total weight in 3-6 months, its time to take care of your health because your body tells you something.

Sudden weight loss is often accompanied by symptoms such as headaches, fatigue, insomnia, and appetite disorders because it can indicate some of the following disorders or diseases.

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Stress is a typical cause of unintentional weight loss and this is exactly the trigger for sudden weight loss in many people. In those moments, people do not care too much about their health because they are occupied with problems, they forget about the necessary intake of nutrients, which very quickly leaves a bad mark on your appearance, but also your body. What is important is that people understand that people who lose extra pounds this way will not look better, even though they may now have an ideal weight. On the contrary, he will look tired and sick, because the organism is exhausted.

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We often hear that people with diabetes are usually obese, but few know that sudden weight loss is one of the first indicators of this disease. Today, this disease is very widespread and even children often get it. According to Trendlor, it is possible to keep it under control by regular intake of some foods such as cinnamon, ginger, aloe vera, and so on. By keeping it under control, you will stop unwanted weight loss.

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The kidneys play a very important role in our body, indigestion, and metabolism. If their failure occurs, many health problems occur, and the first of the signs that occur is weight loss.

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We already know that the thyroid gland controls metabolism and that its improper work is indicated by an equally sudden loss, but also by weight gain. In addition to weight loss, other symptoms such as fatigue, insomnia, irritability, and difficulty regulating body temperature occur.

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Intestinal diseases are often first indicated by decreased appetite leading to weight loss, followed by nausea, bloating, and other symptoms. That is why it is important to consult a doctor in time because these may be diseases such as Crohns disease, celiac disease, colitis, and also chronic liver disease.

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Yes, and this also happens in moments when the body is not able to produce a sufficient amount of cortisol, that is, it does not react well to stress. The first of the symptoms that occur are weight loss, dizziness, and various infections.

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Depression is one of the most common causes of unwanted weight loss. In situations they do not know how to deal with, people often forget about basic living needs or feel that there is no point in eating. Those more serious cases are even so depressed that they feel they dont deserve to eat.

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Although this is a disease that usually occurs between 30 and 50 years of age, it is not excluded that it occurs earlier, even in children. Although at first, it is difficult to link weight loss with this disease that affects joint health, the connection is very present anti-inflammatory cyclones stimulate inflammation and thus increase the consumption and burning of calories and fat.

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In this case, we cannot say that it is a loss of appetite, but a fight against hunger caused by an unfounded fear of gaining weight. The causes are usually emotional and a person very quickly loses a realistic picture of himself, even when he suddenly loses 15-60% of his total weight.

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Various parasites lead to unwanted weight loss. These are usually those that are taken into the body through food, drink, and unclean hands. That is why there is a saying that hygiene is half of health.

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Scientific research has shown that unexplained weight loss of more than 10 kilograms indicates cancer of the pancreas, stomach, esophagus, or lungs. Very often, weight loss is the first indicator of this disease.

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Many resort to low-calorie diets with the desire to get rid of excess weight as soon as possible. Although they are effective in this regard, these diets are also very dangerous to human health, because too low a calorie intake prevents the body from performing basic biological functions. These diets are usually recommended for people whose body mass index is greater than 30, and even then, must be performed under a doctors supervision.

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Indigestion is one of the most common causes of sudden weight loss. What happens at that point is that the body does not break down food properly and thus does not provide the cells with nutrients. In addition to weight loss, there is also chronic fatigue, vomiting, diarrhea, nausea.

When you have health you have everything. That is why you need to take care of your body in every possible way. Try to get rid of bad habits such as cigarettes and alcohol, treat yourself to regular sleep, engage in some physical activity, and most importantly, take care of what you eat. Then when you achieve harmony with yourself and start listening to your body, you will lose weight, but in the right way, so that you stay healthy and satisfied.

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FORT MYERS, Fla., Dec. 29, 2021 /PRNewswire/ --4-Her Weight Loss Motivators app is the "first-of-its-kind" and provides effortless motivation for women to reach weight loss goals when used on an Android phone. (creative-cognitions.com/4-her-app)

Popular health and wellness apps monitor and track progress but struggle to motivate users long enough to help them to form healthy habits for the long term. Lacking sustained motivation, users may succumb to poor choices, thereby making new habit formation difficult. To address the problem, Creative Cognitions, LLC has created a scientifically-based approach of using personalized motivators to produce subconscious nudges (Cognitive Primes). Nudges include goals such as: eating more healthy food, making time for oneself, exercising more, substituting fruit and water for poor alternatives, and finding joy exercising with friends.

Our Smart1C2 technology process embeds new habit formation within the existing habit of using an Android phone. The Primes are delivered effortlessly, without distraction, each time that the person uses their phone.

Creative Cognitions, LLC approach provides the motivational bridge to carry the user's initial enthusiasm forward to form healthy habits and to attain their goals. As a result of using the 4-Her Weight Loss Motivators app, women will remain committed to their health and wellness, change their habits and achieve their goals.

To date, 86% of survey respondents report that the app is helping them to make better healthy choices. Here are a few comments from actual users who have been using the app for more than 30 days:

Barb-Fort Myers, FL: "It's like an inner conscience without any participation from me, or any guilt, just gentle and silent guidance."

Jen-Lambertville, NJ: "I have tried all kinds of apps for weight control. For me, this app is an effortless, nonintrusive approach. The result is that I am making better healthy choices and controlling my weight."

Alison- New Hope, PA: "As a result of this app, I am noticing I am eating much less and drinking more water."

About Creative Cognitions, LLC

Creative Cognitions, LLC is a company dedicated to advancing the science of effortless influence to guide better decision-making and more rapid habit-forming behaviors.

Creative Cognitions, LLC develops effortless behavior modification software using the science of Cognitive Primes. This personalized motivation is provided to individuals via their Android phone through the use of a secure infrastructure. The personalized Cognitive Priming technology uses Creative Cognitions, LLC proprietary technology Smart1C2.

Those wishing to learn more about Creative Cognitions, LLC and its Smart1C2 technology can do so at (https://creative-cognitions.com/). To download, see our family of apps on Google Play

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MINNEAPOLIS, Dec. 28, 2021 /PRNewswire/ --Healthy For Life Meals, a Minneapolis based, fresh meal service company, today announced the results of its inclusion in the National Institutes of Health-funded weight loss study BestFIT: a Personalized Weight Loss Study.

BestFIT is a 4-year clinical study sponsored by the HealthPartners Institute and with these collaborators: National Cancer Institute, University of Minnesota,Drexel University, University of Michigan, and University of Washington. This work was supported by grants from the National Cancer Institute and the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases.

The study of 468 participants occurred over a multi-year period, with the final results published in the December, 2021.

Study conclusions note that 7 out of 10 participants who ate Healthy For Life Meals achieved a clinically significant weight loss of 5% or greater.

"Obesity continues to be a significant and growing public health challenge," says Stephanie Sutton Keegan, Founder and CEO of Healthy For Life Meals. "What is surprising to many is that even just a 5% weight loss can significantly improve your health, including reducingyour risk of chronic diseases such as type 2 diabetes, hypertension, and certain types of cancer, as well as improving your overall quality of life."

"We're proud that the sponsors and collaborators of this study trusted the nutrition integrity of Healthy For Life Meals and chose to incorporate us into this important research," says Keegan.

With healthy, sustainable weight loss and accompanying health improvements as its mission, HFLMis committed to following the nutrition guidelines developed over decades of research by the American Heart Association, American Diabetes Association, Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, and National Academy of Sciences. With a focus on using fresh, clean, whole foods, Healthy For Life Meals provides fully prepared, complete meal plans that deliver optimal nutrition.

For over 20 years, HFLM has remained true to its mission of offering a solution to managing weight loss and other health-related challenges that is simple, sustainable, and based in science.

Healthy For Life Mealshas over thirty locations available for meal pickup throughout the Minneapolis/St Paul metro area, and offers delivery throughout 7 Midwest states: Minnesota, Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Wisconsin, including the metropolitan areas of Minneapolis and St. Paul, Chicago, Madison and Milwaukee.

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Ashby-De-La-Zouch, Dec. 29, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Losing weight and maintaining a healthy lifestyle is one of the most popular new years resolutions for people across the UK year-on-year.

Now, leadingprivate weight loss surgeryprovider Tonic Weight Loss Surgery have launched a new initiative that aims to help people achieve this resolution, transforming their bodies, health and their lives in 2022.

The initiative is centered around a new you in the new year. With this, they are encouraging those considering having surgery or looking at ways to lose weight to learn more about the benefits of weight loss surgery and aftercare, and how it has transformed the lives of so many across the country, giving them increased confidence, happiness, and motivation.

Below, we outline the new weight loss surgery initiative from Tonic Weight Loss Surgery, and dive deeper into why many people use surgery to start their journey into healthy living:

The new initiative from Tonic Weight Loss Surgery: transforming bodies and lives

Tonic Weight Loss Surgeryare considered to be a centre of excellence, providing weight loss surgery at private luxury clinics across the UK. Their surgeons are NHS Consultant Specialist Bariatric Surgeons with vast experience in the field of Bariatric Surgery, who dedicate themselves to understanding the weight loss goals of each individual and providing them with the surgery and aftercare they need to make long lasting change.

The initiative is lifting the lid on weight loss surgery for those who want to make losing weight and maintaining a healthy lifestyle a resolution in the new year. By sharing the stories of clients who have opted for surgery, their reasons behind the decision, and how it impacted their lives, and through providing clear, educational and thought-provoking information around the different types of weight loss procedures available, they hope to inspire people to be self-confident and make weight loss an achievable goal in 2022.

Aftercare and a commitment to healthy living is just as important as the surgery itself

At the core of the initiative is self-confidence and healthy living. By combining leading weight loss surgery with premium aftercare that can last anywhere between 2-5 years, not only are individuals benefitting in the short term, but they are being supported to make improvements to their lives for the long term.

The aftercare that Tonic Weight Loss Surgery provide is unique within the industry, boasting the following within their premium support package:

The level of aftercare provided is one of the fundamental reasons why Tonics weight loss surgery and support network is considered to be one of the most effective in the UK.

Why wait for the new year for the new you?

Many of those who reach out to Tonic Weight Loss Surgery have dealt with emotional and physical stress which led to becoming overweight. Feeling burdened by low confidence, a lack of motivation, toxic relationships with partners and family members, or work lives that limit exercise opportunities, each individual has their own reasons for wanting to make a positive change.

For those who have opted forweight loss surgery, a re-established sense of life and body confidence is just the tip of the iceberg. Many claim to feel like new people who can do things they could never have dreamed of before, that feel they have the motivation to continue to improve their quality of life and put past events behind them.

If your resolution is to lose weight and maintain a healthy lifestyle in 2022, the new weight loss initiative from Tonic Weight Loss Surgery is one thats worth learning more about.

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Tonic Weight Loss Surgery are a specialist private weight loss centre dedicated to giving back lives. They offer a wide range of Weight Loss Surgery procedures performed by leading Bariatric Surgeons at private clinics across the UK. Your options can be discussed with their experts to help you decide which would be the best procedure for you and your lifestyle. Learn more via the website:https://www.tonicweightlosssurgery.co.uk/

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My brain works the way it does today because I grew up as a chubby kid in the midst of an unforgiving 90s diet culture. I was on diets before I probably knew what dieting even meant, and I was hyper aware of my body size and the number on the scale before I was packing my own lunch. Unsurprisingly, this led to years of trying every diet on the internet, scouring the bookshelves at bookstores for the answers to my scale-related woes, and naturally, making a New Years resolution year after year to finally drop the weight I had been carrying all my life. Until one year, I didnt.

A New Years resolution to drop pounds isnt a goal thats unique to me. In a survey conducted by the market research specialists Ipsos, of those who planned a New Years resolution, 42% aimed to lose weight.

Pressure to lose weight may be on the forefront of peoples minds this time of year in part because of advertising and special sales from the entire weight loss industry, says Kristen Farrell-Turner, Ph.D., a psychologist and educator at Pritikin Longevity Center. This pressure also may stem in part from the reality that, for many people, the weeks from Thanksgiving until New Years Day generally involve increased caloric intake, unhealthy food, and alcohol. So people might see New Years resolutions as a way to undo the damage caused by the past few weeks.

Additionally, people often dont realize weight loss is more than just counting calories and going to the gym. Rachel Begun, M.S., R.D.N., leadership development coach and health nutrition expert says, When we want to make change for ourselves, we often have competing commitments or values that prevent us from making the very change we are trying to make.

For example, if a woman is trying to lose weight but baking and hosting friends is important to her, this may undermine the desire to lose weight. Taking away baking goes against how she shows people love, which is a priority value to her. You can begin to see how her very identity is wrapped up in the reason why its so difficult for her to lose weight, Begun explains.

When we arent able to achieve unrealistic goals we set for ourselves, it can have a major impact on our self-worth. If you view yourself as a failure, now believe that you cant make these changes, or hold yourself to unreasonable standards, your self-efficacy, self-esteem, mood, and other aspects of mental health and functioning may all suffer, Farrell-Turner adds.

I was always an avid home cook and meal planner, but during the pandemic, I really leaned into more complicated recipes to pass the time and keep myself busy. One night when flipping through one of my many cookbooks, I opened up Sababa: Fresh, Sunny Flavors From My Israeli Kitchen by Adeena Sussman, a chef you may know from her collaborations with model and cookbook author Chrissy Teigen. As I flipped through the photos of melted green cabbage, lentils with crispy leeks and fennel, and homemade hummus, I realized that I wanted to make everything on these stunning pages. And so the journey began.

I decided that instead of depriving myself with another year of January Whole30 (circa New Years 2019) or pressuring myself to exercise every day and shed weight during a global pandemic, I was going to do the exact opposite this year. I was going to eat. And I was going to eat well.

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In 2021, I broke up with dieting for good and instead chose to focus my efforts in the new year on something more fulfilling, creative, achievable, and downright delicious. I set out to cook through one of the cookbooks in my collectionand its changed the way I see New Years resolutions, dieting, and honestly, myself when it comes to how Ive treated my body for all these years.

When I explained my resolution to Caroline Adams Miller, M.A.P.P., speaker, educator, and author of Creating Your Best Life: The Ultimate Life Guide, she agreed that it was a really great practice for someone in my position. Its great goal setting training. Not all goals and dreams are about changing the world. A lot of time its about giving ourselves a set of skills and a sense of confidence, she told me. Theres a clear outcome, something to enjoy, and you can see success or failure.

Miller added that this particular goal was great for me because it was like an emotional reset, and though the goal involved cooking, it wasnt really about food or eating in a weight-loss mentality. For someone whos had a weight loss goal, it has made food your friend, she said. I wholeheartedly agreed.

Because Im just one person (who sometimes feeds my roommate, boyfriend, friends, and parents when theyre around), I figured an appropriate, achievable plan was to cook at least one recipe a week from the book. Some weeks I would make multiple recipes because I had the time, other weeks I gave myself wiggle room to make something super simple or skip a week if I was on vacation. As of writing this, Ive counted 55 recipes Ive made (including more loaves of honey and olive oil challah than I can count), with two more recipes left on my docket for the remainder of the year. And to keep myself accountable, I would share these all to my food-focused personal Instagram account, saving the photos to highlights and sometimes to the feed when my unforgiving apartment lighting allowed for a worthy shot.

It all began with what I still stand behind as my favorite meal that I cooked for myself and my boyfriend on New Years eve 2020. After much deliberation about what I would make to kick off the new year, and my new resolution, we settled on jeweled rice, sea bass baked in cardamom yogurt sauce with mint, sumac, and pine nuts, and citrus salad as per Sababas recommendation. That meal was a serious knockout spread, and Ive been cooking ridiculously delicious dishes ever since. Here are just some of the many lessons I learned throughout this last year of cooking my way through Sababa (this resolution could work with any cookbook you love!) and breaking up with weight loss goals.

Theres so much pressure during the new year to set goals that change us, but for once I set a goal just to enhance myself. Theres nothing wrong with setting goals to drop the weight, get that higher position at work, or run that marathon. But sometimes its a nice change to set a goal just for fun.

Miller says that there are a slew of different types of goals you can set for yourself, whether thats exploring a new career path, trying to write a book, or dancing at events without feeling self-conscience. When you pursue and achieve a goal thats important to you, it builds self-efficacy. You have the confidence to tackle other things in life, she says. When you build self-efficacy, you begin to test harder and harder goals and you begin to learn that you know youve been resilient in life before.

While cooking through Sababa, I experimented with ingredients I hadnt ever cooked with before, like cottage cheese (which I always thought I hated) in the broccoli cottage cheese pancakes. I also used ingredients I thought were too challenging, like sushi-grade tuna in the (seriously, drool-worthy) crudo with cherries. And I didnt even mention the thrill I got trying to preserve lemons for the first time (spoiler: do it) or making the Middle-eastern mango curry sauce called Amba from scratch and putting it on literally everything I cooked for weeks because it was just that good. This goal allowed me to learn so much about myself and cooking, and challenged me every week to achieve mini goals.

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Ive always been someone who cooks with in-season foods and shops at my local farmers market when I can, but I never truly understood how much impact the quality of my ingredients could make on a recipe. In a very (to me) tragic situation, where I was forced to buy apricots a little too late in the season off a street cart in New York City for a recipe, I had to toss a completely inedible tray of thyme roasted apricots with goat cheese. Ill never make that mistake again.

But on the flip side, a pot full of long-cooked romano beans with tomato and onion left me dreaming about an essentially three-ingredient recipe months later. I went to a farmers market in my city and chatted with the farmer about the best way to prepare and use the Romano beans (that I had never cooked with before, I might add), and I sliced up colorful heirloom tomatoes that were as lusciously juicy as they were candy sweet. The lesson was learned: no matter how great a recipe is, bad ingredients yield bad food. Great ingredients yield phenomenal food.

Additionally, I found that allowing myself the luxury of forgetting the calorie count and just eating good and real food, I began to slowly chip away at years of anxiety around foods I had never dealt with before (more on that next).

Throughout this process, I ate foods that had always been off-limits to me and nixed the guilt I had always associated with certain ingredients...and at the end of the day, I was happy. I made foods like roasted cherry tomatoes and labneh on pappardelle, homemade bagels, and I even made my very own cheesecake from scratch (easily my greatest accomplishment of the year). What I found is that by allowing myself to not set rigid rules and goals around the foods that I eat and the size of my body, I didnt feel the need to eat three pieces of cake. In fact, because I know how hard I worked on it, I savored it for days.

Suddenly food didnt have quite the same power over me, and I realized that all this time I had been putting pressure on myself to shrink my body to a size it just didnt want to be at. And though I still struggle with my body image (you dont lose 26 years of that headspace so easily), I definitely moved in the direction of becoming more comfortable with how I look and less stressed about the food on my plate.

Note: to supplement my experience, I also read the non-diet book Intuitive Eating, which outlines steps to take to rid yourself of diet culture and the emotional toll we take on to make our bodies smaller. Though this wasnt necessarily part of the New Years resolution, it was a great addition to my learning and I would highly recommend it.

Now, Ive shared my story with you and youre probably thinking, Ok, now what? If youre interested in making a New Years resolution that breaks away from weight loss, follow these expert tips for creating a game plan come January 1.

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