Everyone want to lose weight fast, for various reasons, and many use the modern electrotherapy ways that promise to get you there in no time. If you use such procedures, my suggestion is to go to a qualified nutritionist who knows how to counteract the metabolic effects of sudden weight loss. To understand why I’m making this recommendation, please read … Read More
How to feed a child born by a mother who gained too much weight during pregnancy?
“How to feed a child born from a mother who gained too much weight during pregnancy?” is a question that most don’t care about. But, in 2012, worldwide, 40 million children under 5 where officially classified as overweight or obese, and the 2025 forecast expects their number to almost double. (1) Also the prevalence of type I diabetes, and – … Read More
5 habits that help prevent breast cancer
Breast cancer is a multifactorial disease, thus to prevent it we should take into consideration both the many risk factors and the few protective factors that we can influence. At my fifth book launch – Breast cancer ain’t pink – I talked about these risk and protective factors, but the workshop recording you can see on YouTube is in Romanian … Read More
7 essential questions if you have water retention
If you’re retaining water, you’re probably part of the group of people with weight problems who want to lose weight yesterday. And, as you probably know, unlike starvation, dehydration produces incredible weight loss results in the short term. Whether it’s about slimming teas, drugs or supplements that “eliminate water retention” or ketogenic diets, nothing seems to be as effective as … Read More
Top 3 factors that contribute to holiday weight gain & what to do about them
If you’re tired enough of gaining (at least) 2 kg in each holiday (kilos that you will usually go back down only temporarily, if ever), if you get sick from your stomach only to the thought that you’ll need to get started again another diet just because you were in a simple holiday and if you’re frustrated because, no matter … Read More
Does drinking beer makes you gain weight?
Even though we are in the midst of a rainy summer, veiled with a few days of heat, many men asked me – some jokingly, some seriously – if the beer makes us gain weight. Now seriously: which foods are fattening and which ones are not fattening?! Women usually do not ask, they think they already know and go on … Read More
What is the metabolic difference between cola light and normal cola?
This article refers not only to cola light or to a specific brand in particular, but to the difference in metabolic impact between the consumption of cola light and soda drinks containing “sugars”. To start, let’s define exactly what is used to sweeten light or “sugar-free” soda drinks and what is used to sweeten normal or cola “with sugars”. “Normal” … Read More
International Breastfeeding Week: August, 1-7
The World Health Organization (WHO) declared the week of 1-7 August as the “World Week of Breastfeeding” – respected in over 170 countries to encourage mothers to offer this wonderful gift to their babies and to emphasise the importance of the „Innocenti“ statement, signed in August 1990 by the WHO, UNICEF and the Public Health Institutions in these countries. And … Read More
Why I do not recommend too much sport for weight loss?
Because a lot of people who want to lose weight as soon as possible, if they can yesterday, ask me why I do not recommend more sport, I would like to clarify the concept of sport for losing weight. Sport is very important in weight loss, but by sport we only maintain the results from our eating behaviour. Sedentariness is a … Read More
