by wildcherry on Monday, December 22nd, 2008 | Health, News | 7 Comments

Which diet is right for you?

It’s the time of the year that we eat more than usual. By new year the most common new year’s resolution would be too loose weight or go on diet. So for those of you who’s thinking to go on diet please read this article carefully.

The government is warning people against taking 28 types of weight loss pills, and it is urging anyone who has taken them to be checked by a health care professional.

The tainted products contain potentially dangerous undeclared ingredients, the Food and Drug Administration found, including prescription drugs in levels much higher than the maximum recommended dosages.

The brands are Fatloss Slimming, 2 Day Diet, 3x Slimming Power, Japan Lingzhi 24 Hours Diet, 5x Imelda Perfect Slimming, 3 Day Diet, 7 Day Herbal Slim, 8 Factor Diet, 7 Diet Day/Night Formula, 999 Fitness Essence, Extrim Plus, GMP, Imelda Perfect Slim, Lida DaiDaihua, Miaozi Slim Capsules, Perfect Slim, Perfect Slim 5x, Phyto Shape, ProSlim Plus, Royal Slimming Formula, Slim 3 in 1, Slim Express 360, Slimtech, Somotrim, Superslim, TripleSlim, Zhen de Shou and Venom Hyperdrive 3.0.

Many of the products are marketed as “dietary supplements” and claim to be “natural” or contain only “herbal” ingredients. But the FDA said some of the pills include sibutramine, a controlled substance; rimonabant, a drug not approved for marketing in the U.S.; phenytoin, an anti-seizure medication; and phenolphthalein, a suspected carcinogen.
Sibutramine can cause high blood pressure, seizures, tachycardia, palpitations, heart attack or stroke. It can also interact negatively with other medications that patients may be taking. Rimonabant, which was evaluated but not approved for marketing in the U.S., has been associated with increased risk of depression and suicidal thoughts.

The FDA is seeking product recalls and may take further enforcement steps such as warning letters, seizures, injunctions or criminal charges.
Health care professionals and consumers should report serious side effects or other problems with the products to the FDA’s MedWatch Adverse Event Reporting program.

Visit http://www.fda.gov/cder/consumerinfo/weight_loss_products.htm for more information.

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by wildcherry on Friday, October 10th, 2008 | Health, News | 5 Comments

We have all heard people talking about how easy it is for individual with high metabolisms to shed extra pounds. Of course we then determine that since we can’t lose weight we probably have a slow metabolism.

Metabolism, or metabolic rate is how fast your body burns calories by going about your daily routines. Of course everyone has a different metabolism and it’s the reason some can eat pretty much anything they want and never gain an ounce, while others gain weight if they even look at a fudge brownie.

Good news is you can exert control over your metabolic rate and speed it up.

Here are three tips to crank up the metabolic heat.

1. Eat smaller meals and eat more often - Your body will adjust to using the more frequent meals as fuel and not store them as body fat.
2. Drink more water - A German study showed that drinking 500ml of water increased the resting metabolic rate of the test subjects by 30%! This effect reached a maximum around 30-40 minutes after drinking the water.
3. Supplements - Maybe - Studies recently showed that vitamin C has influence on metabolism

Source:Low Carb Tracker

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