What are the ways to lose weight?

It's an open secret that over recent decades we have become an extremely health conscious and keep-fit-orientated society with widespread preoccupation with healthy eating. It could hardly be otherwise as we all are under immense pressure to keep up with Hollywood's celebrities with their next to ideal hot figures. Besides no one can deny, that we still often go by people's appearance. And what do you think you see first looking at a person? Of course, it's the figure! A man with upright carriage or a slim graceful girl are much more attractive are much more attractive than with ones with a big belly, flabby skin and low self-esteem. As a consequence, we want to lose our excess weight as soon as possible and join those lucky dogs who have never been one pound overweight.

Once you have decided to have your fat ... [read more]

Different cultures' look on weight problems

Ha!? Of course, the bath-scales must be lying, - I was thinking to myself when after I went back from USA the first thing I decided to do was to check my weight. To put on weight more than 25 pounds for less than 5 months was absolutely impossible for me. At the same time I was fed us with the only one exclamation of every one who saw me Boo, you've become fatter! instead of Welcome! How on earth could it happen when it was considered that all the time I was working as hard as a cart-horse? Besides nobody ever in the States mentioned or even hinted that I was getting fatter, neither American colleagues nor Russian students I was living with. No doubt, I gained some weight and it had bothered nobody until I came back home. Was the real reason in so-called fast food ? I remembered my first sandwich. That was Chicken McGrill. I ordered it with Coca. I was eating and I caught myself at the thought that it was the most del ... [read more]

Healthy life madness

Today everybody went crazy about the healthy life. This thing is being hammered in our heads daily. Is it possible not to believe? Healthy food, healthy habits, a healthy nation... with healthy, beautiful bodies. It's the second thing everybody went crazy about. You have to be beautiful in order to be successful. It became a mania. Is it so safe to get one's weight down rashly? Is it it OK to cheat on the Mother Nature? If so, why for all the mammals it's a rule: the more well-fed an individual is, the healthier it is, the more likely it is to breed healthily? And only human beings are against all the rules the skinnier the woman is, the more attractive she looks.

The image of a walking skeleton is everywhere; in newspapers, on TV, in magazines. All the designers create their outfits for a skinny figure, for some ephemeral angel. But what sho ... [read more]

Thoughts on slimness

Today it has become popular and even fashionable to be healthy. Living a healthy life isn't something extraordinary anymore. On the contrary it has become real. The mass media propaganda fights with different kinds of all bad habits and strongly recommends you to live a healthy life. But now can one be healthy without being slim and slender? It's essential that you must be slim in order to achieve everything. And, of course, all the means of mass media offer you different ways to reach your goals.

There are one million and one way to loose weight, moreover, to loose it without going into great paths and sufferings. In the past have gone all the strict diets that could drive us to death from starvation, all the hours in a gym, without any sense, all the operations... Today you can choose and turn to other methods and ways to get free of these heavy bur ... [read more]