Tabouli, also spelled tabbouleh or tabouleh, is a popular Middle Eastern salad containing bulgur, tomato, spring onion, mint and parsley. Typically, olive oil and lemon juice are added as a seasoning.

Having a baby changes your body significantly, usually resulting in extra pounds. For women who want to lose the weight they gained during pregnancy, they may have heard that women who lose too much weight aren't able to breastfeed.

Losing fat, particularly in the abdomen, can be a challenging process that often requires significant changes in diet and exercise habits. Although some foods and beverages, such as green tea, may help speed this process by boosting metabolism, they are unlikely to cause a significant loss in belly fat when used alone.

Eating more salt will not help hyperthyroidism, and it can actually lead to more medical problems, such as high blood pressure. Salt does not play a role in hyperthyroidism and should be consumed within government dietary recommendations.

Oxcarbazepine, a medication available in generic form and as the brand Trileptal, is mainly prescribed for controlling seizures. Trileptal is classified as an anticonvulsant; it works by decreasing abnormal electrical activity in the brain. Both weight gain and weight loss are possible side effects of Trileptal.

A diet rich in vegetables enhances your health and can help you manage your weight, but you cannot subsist on vegetables alone. Even when your goal is fat loss, you need healthy dietary fat and lean protein to support optimal body functioning.

To lose weight, you need to consume fewer calories than you burn. How many times a week you should go to the gym to support your weight-loss goals depends on several factors, such as what you eat, what you do while you’re at the gym and your age, weight and gender. To lose and keep off weight, the U.S.

Weight gain and weight loss are gradual processes. Most people don’t become overweight in a short period of time, and although it’s possible to lose weight quickly through crash diets and relentless exercise, the safest and healthiest way to lose weight is slowly, over time.

You would think eating less would result in less stomach fat. Unfortunately, this isn’t necessarily so. Eating less food than your body needs results in malnutrition. This can be in the form of vitamin deficiencies, protein deficiency and/or carbohydrate deficiency. Ultimately, this leads to starvation of the body.

To lose weight, you need to burn more calories than you consume, says the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. An 18-year-old can do this in one of two ways: eating fewer calories or exercising more. The best -- and healthiest -- choice is a combination of both.

As women age, their metabolism slows down, which means fat tends to accumulate unless they are extremely active and eat a very low-calorie diet. After menopause, fat tends to accumulate around the middle, as opposed to the legs or arms.

Some varieties of lauki, also called bottle gourd or calabash gourd, can be used as a vegetable, but others have a bitter taste and may be dangerous -- or even lethal -- to consume.