Category Archives: Dieting?

Regular readers of this blog will know that I usually pay short shrift to diets and dedicate this area of the blog to poke a little gentle fun at the silliest of excesses in that respect. But maybe my recent … Continue reading →

Manchester doctor Raj Patel says detoxers abstaining from the booze this month should have started to feel the benefits by now. Listen to his audio clip if your New Year’s resolve is flagging.
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If, like me and countless thousands of others, the start of the New Year means the start of a “detox” then today’s news from more than 300 PhD and post-doctorate students working in science that it’s all bunkum, will have … Continue reading →

Come on, you didn’t really believe you’d lose weight wearing a pink coloured sticky patch did you? The internet advert for a slimming patch which claimed users could lose a stone (6.35kg) in two weeks has been banned, according to … Continue reading →

If you’re looking to lose weight, then the land of the large (perhaps that should be lard) may have something to offer at last. A nutrition book called “Eat This, Not That!” has become one of the hottest selling guides in US book stores.
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OK it’s confession time. After committing to paper (well blog posting) my intention to cut back a bit in the interest of flab reduction, I’ll come clean. After a few days I did fall off the wagon big style. I … Continue reading →

D Day arrived this weekend. I guess I’ve been ignoring the signs, wanting the truth to be different but Saturday morning proved to be the decisive moment.
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