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Modern Birth Control Rarely Makes You Gain Weight

10 May 2017

The idea that birth control pills make the user gain weight has been floating around since the first appearance of contraceptive pills on the market in the 1950’s, but hasn’t been true for quite...

“Mild Cold Training” & Weight Loss

10 May 2017

Researchers from the University of Maastricht have proposed a new solution for the obesity epidemic. Instead of changing lifestyle habits or restricting calories, Dutch researchers suggest “mild...

Lipozene and Weight Loss

20 Mar 2017

The "active" ingredient in Lipozene is glucomannan, a form of dietary fiber that is extracted from the root of the konjac plant. Fiber, by definition, is any type of food component that cannot be...

Dr. Oz’s Questionable Wizardry

20 Mar 2017

Miracles are pretty rare events. Except on television’s “Dr. Oz Show,” where they appear with astonishing frequency. Oz of course doesn’t claim to raise the dead or part the Red Sea, but he does...

Konjac Con

20 Mar 2017

I just watched acommercial on TV for "Lipozene." What a miracle product this is! Magical weight loss with no side effects. Whoa...time to reign in the claims....

Oz’s Glow Dims

20 Mar 2017

Dr. Mehmet Oz was asked to testify in front of a U.S. Senate Transport, Commerce and Science subcommitte on fraudulent weight loss products. It is a subject he knows a fair bit about. After all he...

A "Short" Solution to Shedding the Pounds

20 Mar 2017

I had friends in University that wrestled. And I never really got it.  The jousting, the hold-‘em-down-till-they’re-finished-mentality. And the outfits. I won’t even get started on that one. But...

Konjac and Weight Loss

20 Mar 2017

It is unbelievable what people will believe. Especially when it comes to weight loss. No matter how many “magic” pills have come and gone, hope reigns eternal that the next one that comes around...

The Skinny on the HCG Weight Loss Scheme

20 Mar 2017

“Why be stout” queried a newspaper ad in 1927, “when all you have to do to bring back natural slimness is rub your body with Dr.

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