Showing posts with label weight loss. Show all posts
Showing posts with label weight loss. Show all posts

Monday, March 28, 2011

Freezing Fat to Death




Harvard researchers found kids who sucked on popsickles lost facial fat. Plastic surgeons reasoned if they could manipulate temperature and have people lose fat in other places. And they have been successful.

The procedure uses extreme cold to kill fat white cells while energizing brown fat (fat that helps burn calories). Overtime the fat white cells enters the stage of apoptosis - cell suicide.

Wednesday, December 22, 2010

Write to Lose Weight




Research finds that people who write down everything they eat each day lose twice as much as those who don’t.

~1,700 participants were asked to follow a heart-healthy diet, attended weekly group sessions and did moderate exercise for 1/2 hour daily. After 6 months, ~2/3rd had lost at least 9lbs. Moreover, those who wrote down what they ate lost twice as much as others.