Weight management often depends on calculating metabolic rates, understanding fat biochemistry, and tailoring exercise programming for either muscle acquisition or structured fat reduction.
Something as common as sinusitis can cause burning sensations in your head. If you've been experiencing congestion, facial discomfort, malaise, low-grade fever and inner-ear pressure, you may have a sinus infection.
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Phentermine hydrochloride is a medication designed as a short-term appetite suppressant for weight loss. This medication is only a part of a weight-reduction program that includes dieting, exercising and counseling.
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Fruit smoothies and fresh-juice drinks provide some of the most nutritious options for dieters. A substantial smoothie is an easy way to have a fast meal loaded with vitamins and fiber.
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Unless plastic surgery is an option, spot reducing your tummy isn't possible and losing belly fat certainly won't happen overnight. Reducing fat from anywhere in your body requires a full-body weight-loss approach -- you can't choose what part of your body sheds the weight.
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Carrying extra weight in the waist area is detrimental to your health because of its proximity to the major organs. Losing this weight while maintaining your hips and butt takes a little precision. Exercise plays a major role, but you also have to make a few tweaks to your diet.
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No magical solution exists to address the small pouch of fat at the front of your lower abs. When you're dieting, you can't point to an area and simply will it to disappear. Your body loses weight in a pattern determined by genetics and hormones.
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Running, walking, bowling and eating and sleeping are all activities that burn calories. Everything you do, in fact, burns calories.
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If you think that hundreds of squats and lunges are going to result in slim, toned legs, you're in for an unpleasant surprise. Reducing fat from your legs requires that you take an approach that focuses on your entire body. When your body fat reduces, so will that jiggling, excess fat that's covering your leg muscles.
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Optifast and Slim-Fast are meal-replacement weight loss plans, substituting their products for at least two meals a day. Both programs offer shakes and bars, and Optifast adds soups to the menu. One major difference between the two is how they are administered.
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Often a vacation, school reunion or special party can sneak up on you, and even though you may have meant to improve your physique a month ago, you now only have two weeks. Losing weight in two weeks takes commitment and a desire to change your eating and exercise habits; however, it can be done.
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Weightlifting is a type of strength-training exercise that burns calories and fat and tones and builds muscle. While you can lose weight by lifting weights, this type of exercise tends to build muscle, which, depending on how much muscle mass you accumulate, can weigh more than fat.
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Doing yardwork may not be on your list of exercises to burn calories, but perhaps it should be. Depending on how much you weigh and the type of work you do, you can burn 240 to 448 calories per hour. In general, the more you weigh and the more vigorous the activity, the more calories you burn.
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An ileostomy is a surgical opening, or stoma, created to bypass the large intestine by attaching the end of the small intestine, or ileum, to the abdominal wall. As food makes its way down the digestive tract, it is excreted through this opening into a pouch rather than continuing on to the large intestine.
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On a cool day, a hot beverage at Starbucks is sometimes just what you want. But you may get more than you bargained for in terms of unhealthy ingredients.
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Weight loss is all about calories in, calories out, but beware of low-calorie diets that claim to give you extreme results fast. Diets that women consume fewer than 1,200 calories and men no more than 1,500 calories may ultimately do more harm than good.
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Large amounts of salt, or sodium, in a diet can increase blood pressure and put a person at risk for heart disease. According to the MayoClinic.com, the American Heart Association recommends that healthy people consume no more than 2,300 mg of sodium a day, which equates to about a teaspoon.
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When it comes to losing weight it's tempting to take shortcuts. But the truth is there are no easy and fast ways to lose weight. So-called sauna suits won't increase your fat loss. At best you will see a bit of weight loss from water loss; at worst a sauna suit can be dangerous and even deadly.
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For men and women who are looking to put on lean mass, the key is to combine resistance training with a high-calorie diet. The goal is to eat more than your body burns so you gain weight. This doesn't mean having a free-for-all diet where you eat a lot of pizza and burgers.
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You can measure your own waistline and hips to assess your health status and the success of a diet or fitness program. Girth measurements, such as these, are useful because they are a quick and easy way to get reliable body size information. Waistline and hip measurements, however, can be misleading.
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Phentermine is an appetite suppressant and stimulant. It works in much the same way as amphetamines. Phentermine affects the central nervous system. It is used along with exercise and a healthy diet to help obese people lose weight.
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