Diet vs exercise

Drugs for losing weight

The problem of obesity has taken on epidemic proportions over the last few years. In 1998, a report by the UK’s National Institute for Clinical Excell...

Drugs for losing weight - What to do instead

What to do instead * Try metabolic typing. This dietary method is based on the idea that no single, universal diet is right for everyone because ea...

Losing Weight: Low-fat foods won’t help

If you want to lose weight, forget eating a low-fat diet. Low-fat foods, which achieve billions of dollars of sales every year, will help you lose so...

Heart disease heart disease: - Less of a killer without the drugs

Heart disease is already the leading cause of death in the USA and the UK, and forecasters reckon it will soon be the major killer in every developed...

Losing weight: How much exercise to do if you want to shed the pounds, and keep them off

Want to lose weight by exercising? Well, this is how much you need to do each week to start shedding those excess pounds.

Losing Weight: The pills don’t work, but still the drug companies push them

Can you lose weight just by popping a slimming pill? Needless to say, the drug companies think so, and they’re in the process of making the best-sell...