Obesity

Gastric Bypass Surgery Is No ‘Miracle Cure’

04/03/13

Gastric bypass surgery… it’s no joke, I tell you. Recently I told you about the extra 7kgs I gained in the past year. It turns out that by allowing a few bad habits to slip into my daily routine, I gained weight at a very slow and unnoticeable rate. When my doctor warned me about [...]

Obesity Deplete Vitamin D Levels

22/02/13

Vitamin D is the rising star of all vitamins and as more and more research is proving the negative health effects of having low vitamin D levels, it has become increasingly important to understand exactly why the sunshine vitamin is so important to all-round good health. A recent study, published in the peer-reviewed medical journal [...]

Diet: How I Gained A Stone In One Year…

19/02/13

It creeps up on you very quickly and before you know it, those extra couple of pounds you gain here and there become a stone… I mean we don’t always keep an eye on your diet? That’s just boring, right? However, if you allow those extra ‘innocent’ pounds to pile on and lose sight of [...]

Obesity: Britain Is The Fattest Country In Europe

05/02/13

There’s no way around it, the obesity crisis in the UK and US is a major health concern. Recently the UK’s National Health Service (NHS) reported that more than 7,000 adults in Britain are too fat to work. Bursting at the seams Britain is the fattest country in Europe, with one in four adults classed [...]