Bread, sweets, meat, milk, eggs, cheese and even certain fruits and vegetables contain different amounts of fat. The fat we found in foods is extremely dangerous for your health due to their increased number of calories (9kcal/g) and not only. Read this article and found out which are the foods that contain lipids and endanger […]

Some researchers say that having a lot of sex helps women burn calories and lose weight, while others sustain firmly that having too much sex is actually making women gain weight. Fitness magazine asked 2,400 women if they would sacrifice a full year of sex to be skinny and 51 percent said yes, which means […]

Since 2000, more and more low-carb products have been Introduced on the market but what “low carb” really means? Do we have a low-carb or a high-carb diet? Should we cut back on carbs? The answer is ‘yes’, we should cut back on carbs especially if we want to lose weight. In one recent study […]

Children and young people are extremely susceptible to advertising and peer pressure. The manufacturers of different energy drinks are aware of that and paid serious amounts of money for clever marketing campaigns. Their target is young people and children who practice a sport, those who feel tired in the morning due to the after-effects of […]

Protein is an essential part of a healthy diet, helping the body to have less appetite for eating and to use energy to convert protein to carbohydrates in a process called gluconeogenesis. According to one study, overweight men and women who followed a low-fat, high-protein diet for six months lost nearly 4 kg more, on […]

If you decide to spend the New Year’s Eve with your partner, then you’ll probably organize a romantic dinner that will end in a night of passion. And if you want to be sure of this night’s success, try and introduce in your menu the following ingredients that will increase yours and your partner’s libido, […]

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced that in the U.S. the rates of all STIs (sexually transmissible infections), including HIV, have been increasing with an estimated 19 million new cases each year and in 2010 more than 1 million people have been found living with HIV. It seems that almost half of […]

2010 was the year of new diets embraced by celebrities and thus by commoners, promising effortless weight loss. And with the new year upon us, everyone will be tempted to try a magic diet to lose the extra kilos gained over the holidays. But beware of the following five diets because they are as tricky […]

World Health Organization decided that healthy women don’t need to do medical check-ups in order to start taking birth control pills, because the ovaries’ normal production of hormones varies from one month to another so the tests will only show that everything is alright.
A recent study shows that most European women between 15 and 49 […]

Reaching your goal weight is not easy and it’s not the end of your concerns. You know well that you may easily regain the pounds you’ve shed and that now it’s the beginning of a new battle: the battle of keeping your weight off for good. So it’s very important not to go back to […]