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Time for a little survey: Summer 2011 – so how’s your diet going?

If you are looking for a quick solution to losing weight as Spring approaches, you’ll probably start to pay attention to the emails you get in your mailbox touting the benefits of the latest fat burner pills. Should you buy them? You wonder… the deadline for losing a few pounds draws a little closer each…

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Cigarettes: the slow way to diet, the slow way to die!

One of the things that I keep noticing in Taiwan is how young females are starting smoking. My students tell me that many of their classmates begin smoking. And even on the street, I see more and more women smoking. It used to be that in Taiwan only the ‘ladies of the night’ would caren’t…

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Yoyos aren’t just for fun: But it’s bad if you do the yoyo diet!

Not only do dieters have to contend with never losing weight, fad diets, and an unhealthy diet, but it seems that if you are trying to cheat your weight to a thinner figure, you also have to consider the side effects of diet pills, and what they might do to your liver, especially. Of course,…

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Did you know most dieters never lose weight?

Actually, it’s an amazing claim that I found on one best diet supplements. And I suspect it’s true. I’m also wondering the reasons but I think they can be best summarized by these thee points: 1. unrealistic expectations: dieters are usually highly optimistic about how much weight can be lost. We usually overlook the fact…