Revealed! Secret to losing 85 pounds

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Wonders of water

High cholesterol levels are an indicator of early drought management by the body. Cholesterol is a clay-like material that is poured in the gaps of some cell membranes to safeguard them against losing their vital water content to the osmotically more powerful blood circulating in their vicinity. Cholesterol, apart from being used to manufacture nerve cell membranes and hormones, is also used as a "shield" against water taxation of other vital cells that would normally exchange water through their cell membranes. (Full story)

Make your walking workout more fun

If you have been walking as a part of your workout routine for a while, you may start to get a little bored after a while, especially if you are walking the same route every day, or use a treadmill. Before you know it, you get bored with your walking workout and stop. The key to keep walking and working out is to make it more fun and mix things up. Here are some great tips to make your walking workout more fun. (Full story)

Is walking the best exercise?

One thing up front. I personally believe, based on experience and study, that walking has to be one of the finest exercises around. Whether you are interested in health, fitness, weight loss, or aging, there's not too many things that have such a beneficial effect as walking.

In fact, before we try to humble and belittle walking as an exercise, let's be noble and try to point out some of its good points.

As a general, all-purpose exercise, walking IS one of the best. (Full story)

Celebrity diet and fitness secrets

Ever wonder how celebrities like Jennifer Aniston stay in such great shape? They do it with the help of a workout regimen and a healthy eating plan. The good news is that with these diet and exercise tips, you'll be well on your way to your own great shape! (Full story)

10 celebrity health secrets for 10 days

What are your wishes this year? No matter what you wish, you can achieve it. The only thing that you need for that is your health. So, health should be the first wish for everyone. Do you want to become healthier this year? By making just one change a day – and taking a cue from celebrities – get on your way to a healthy 2008! (Full story)

Celebrity endorsements next marketing spin for fiber?

With half of America's consumers unclear on the health benefits of dietary fiber, a new survey reveals that celebrity endorsements may be the way forward for food manufacturers to promote their high-fiber products.

The research, published this week by the National Fiber Council (NFC), reveals that consumers are most likely to learn about fiber through the media, yet few people are aware which foods are good sources of this. (Full story)

Celebrity diet 'safe and effective'

The controversial Atkins diet, favoured by many celebrities, may be as safe and effective as low-calorie weight-loss plans, researchers say.

People on the Atkins diet are allowed unlimited amounts of proteins and fats but have to restrict their carbohydrate intake. (Full story)

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4 dangerous weight loss methods

Most of us know that shedding pounds the right way should be a gradual process and takes a lifetime commitment to health. But most of us don’t have the patience, and as a result, some people take extreme measures to become thin too quickly and too dangerously. While extreme dieters may lose weight, they can also lose their life. Stay away from four dangerous weight loss methods. (Full story)

8 weeks to a brand new body

Jorge Cruise outlines a revolutionary fitness program for busy people who want results but don’t want to live in the gym. Cruise’s motto? Burn fat, not time!

Cruise’s 12-Second Sequence program shows you how to achieve maximum results in the least amount of time – shrinking your waistline and boosting your metabolism by 20% with just two workouts a week for eight weeks.

Cruise’s secret? Work out smarter, not more. (Full story)

Health benefits of honey

The health benefits of honey - like all foods - depend on the quality of the honey. But in this case, the situation is even more extreme, because the pollen that collects on the bees' legs as they move from plant to plant is only as healthful and as diverse as those plants. In addition, the processing of honey often removes many of the phytonutrients found in raw honey as it exists in the hive.

Raw honey, for example, contains small amounts of the same resins found in propolis. Propolis, sometimes called "bee glue," is actually a complex mixture of resins and other substances that honeybees use to seal the hive and make it safe from bacteria and other micro-organisms. Honeybees make propolis by combining plant resins with their own secretions.

However, substances like road tar have also been found in propolis. Bee keepers sometimes use special screens around the inside of the hive boxes to trap propolis, since bees will spread this substance around the honeycomb and seal cracks with the anti-bacterial, anti-viral, and anti-fungal resins. The resins found in propolis only represent a small part of the phytonutrients found in propolis and honey, however.

Other phytonutrients found both in honey and propolis have been shown to posssess cancer-preventing and anti-tumor properties. These substances include caffeic acid methyl caffeate, phenylethyl caffeate, and phenylethyl dimethylcaffeate. Researchers have discovered that these substances prevent colon cancer in animals by shutting down activity of two enzymes, phosphatidylinositol-specific phospholipase C and lipoxygenase. When raw honey is extensively processed and heated, the benefits of these phytonutrients are largely eliminated. (Full story)

Honey as a dressing for wounds, burns, and ulcers

The use of honey as a wound dressing material, an ancient remedy that has been rediscovered, is becoming of increasing interest as more reports of its effectiveness are published. The clinical observations recorded are that infection is rapidly cleared, inflammation, swelling and pain are quickly reduced, odour is reduced, sloughing of necrotic tissue is induced, granulation and epithelialisation are hastened, and healing occurs rapidly with minimal scarring.

The antimicrobial properties of honey prevent microbial growth in the moist healing environment created. Unlike other topical antiseptics, honey causes no tissue damage: in animal studies it has been demonstrated histologically that it actually promotes the healing process. It has a direct nutrient effect as well as drawing lymph out to the cells by osmosis. (Full story)

How Catherine Zeta-Jones got her killer curves

When she’s not onscreen, Zeta-Jones performs a wide variety of cardiovascular activities, including swimming, and also practices yoga. By keeping her body challenged and constantly changing her exercise routine, she’s able to maintain her fit, womanly body and looks better than ever at her age. (Full story)

10 Hollywood feel-good secrets

Look younger! Boost energy! De-stress! Thousands of products promise to make you look and feel like a Hollywood star. So what do the celebrities actually use? As it turns out, many A-list beauties forgo expensive pills and potions for old-fashioned natural remedies. Here, 10 stars share their secrets for staying healthy – naturally... (Full story)

Celebrities without makeup, gosh!

Ever wonder what pictures of your favorite celebrities look like without all that makeup? The truth is that anyone, and I mean anyone, can look great with the help of a team of hair stylists and makeup artists.

Everyone from Jennifer Lopez and Diana Ross to Jessica Simpson and Courtney Love need a little help to maintain those pretty faces. Even Courtney Love and former supermodel Rachel Hunter made the list.

Just in case you were disillusioned into believing that the stars wake up looking camera ready, check out this TMZ gallery of celebrities looking au natural and less than pleased to be facing the paparazzi cameras.

Celebrity diet and fitness secrets

Ever wonder how celebrities like Jennifer Aniston stay in such great shape? They do it with the help of a workout regimen and a healthy eating plan. The good news is that with these diet and exercise tips, you'll be well on your way to your own great shape! (Full story)

Angie shared simple rules for a healthy life

Angie is successfully raising two young daughters, starring in a hot new TV show with an 80-hour workweek, and maintaining a solid marriage to Jason Sehorn. Not to mention that she's doing it all with a very healthy sense of humor to boot.

In an interview for the December 2007 issue of Shape Magazine, Angie shared her simple rules for living a healthy life. (Full story)

The celebrity trainer approach to a more perfect body

CNN recently spoke with five celebrity trainers, who, without hesitation, say their star clients have to work just as hard as anyone else to achieve their weight loss and fitness goals. The main difference between training a celebrity and training any other client, they say, is scheduling. (Full story)

8 celebrity diet and fitness secrets

Celebrities always look fabulous. Whether appearing in telecasting or moving-picture shows or strutting down the red rug during moving-picture show prime ministers and awardings, they never lay off to fascinate us with their larger than life presence. The truth is, it takes a great deal of endeavor to look the style they do, and since the fans are their paycheck, they cannot afford to slack off when it come ups to taking aid of their physical visual aspects. Their bread and butter largely depends on how they look. Aside from the dress, the hair and the composition, celebrities have to take good aid of their physical structures.

So it is no surprise that these stars have their own secrets when it come ups to exercisings, staying tantrum and looking gorgeous. Their wellness docket can run from extreme exercisings to well-planned meals. Who doesn't want to cognize their secrets in staying absolutely sexy? (Full story)

Celebrity Diets: Fad or Fat-Busting?

Flip through the pages of any popular magazine or just turn on the TV: You won’t have to look hard to find yet another celebrity’s weight-loss transformation. We’re obsessed with the quick-fix diet, hoping the secrets of celebrities can transform our figures, too. But how healthy are those Hollywood diets? And how realistic are they when you don’t have a personal chef or trainer? (Full story)

17 celebrity slim-down secrets

Celebrities aren’t so different from the rest of us when it comes to holiday feasting. They indulge in a few too many treats and the pounds creep on. So how do they get their sleek physiques back after New Year’s? (Full story)