Weight Loss Facts
- You don't have to drastically overeat to become fat. Consuming just 20 more calories than you need every day over ten years will lead you to put on an extra couple of stones. That's 28lbs for every 20 calories!
- The most the body can lose in actual fat in a week is around 2 lbs (about 1 kilo). To lose around 1lb or half a kilo requires a reduction of 3,500 calories per week.
- To burn 250 calories during exercise you would need to walk for 28 minutes, run for 8 minutes, swim for 13 minutes or ride a bicycle for 15 minutes.
- Fats supply twice the calories of protein-rich foods and twice the amount found in carbohydrate foods such as bread, pasta and potatoes. So if you get your fat intake under control, you'll automatically reduce ‘bad' calories.
- The average fat content of butter or margarine on one slice of bread is 8gms.
- The more fatty foods we eat, the more galanin (a hormone in the brain) we make. The more galanin we make, the more we crave fat. The good news is, that the less fat we eat, the less we crave it.
- Food processing has drastically changed the sort of fats that are eaten and the ways in which they have been treated. Diseases associated with fatty degeneration and excessive consumption of fats are now implicated in about four fifths of all deaths.
- Heart disease claims 140,000 lives in Britain each year and affects 1 in 4 men and 1 in 5 women.
- Check the labels. When you buy ‘fat-free' products, check the percentages. If a 100g product is 85% fat-free then 15gms is fat. At 9 calories per fat gram, that means the product has 135 calories of fat per 100g. The packet states the product has 300 calories per 100g and as 135 of these are fat calories, the fat content is actually 45% of the calories rather than 15% that the manufacturer would like you to believe. It's not easy to grab the maths but put simply, don't buy any foods containing more than 5% of fat per serving.
- 1 in 5 Americans now qualifies as obese and the UK is fast catching up. Bigger seats are having to be refitted in public places, with 20-22" wide seats replacing 18" wide seats that has been the industry standard size since 1932.
- NAAFA – what is it? The National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance – an association set up by Llewellyn Louderback in 1970 to fight against fat discrimination.
- Cellasene – a herbal cellulite treatment containing yellow sweet clover, grape seed and fish oils intended to encourage blood and oxygen flow to areas of the body affected by cellulite. Clinical trials have begun in the UK. We'll keep you posted when the results are through and if it works well, expect to see it become part of the slimsteady range.
- Many people don't realise that an attack of migraine can be caused by a drop in blood sugar levels brought about by a lack of food. Another reason why starvation diets really don't do you any good.
