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Seaweed and Weight Loss

Seaweed and Weight Loss

A link between seaweed and weight loss has been discovered by Japanese researchers. This may help in the fight against obesity. Scientists from Hokkaido University have isolated a pigment in brown kelp called fucoxanthin. Fucoxanthin has been proved effective in stimulating weight loss in rats. The rats lost up to 10% of their body weight during the trial. They lost fat mostly from ...

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Best Lower Abdominal Exercise

Best Lower Abdominal Exercise

What is the best lower abdominal exercise? Good question as there are a few to choose from, but only one that really targets these toughest to reach abs. And they can be hard to isolate and work effectively. Go to any gym and you’ll see all sorts of weird and wonderful contraptions that people strap themselves into. You’ll see people ...

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NV Diet Pill Review – Beauty and Weight Loss

NV diet pill review

Our NV diet pill review looks at a product that not only promises rapid weight loss but thicker hair, stronger nails and hair that shines, too. Really? The advertising blurb for NV diet pills claims that they’re, “…the world’s first rapid weight loss formula with beauty enhancing properties!” You’re promised a “slimmer, sleeker and more sultry body”. Sultry! Give me ...

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Best Way to Lose Weight Fast In 2017

best way to lose weight fast in 2017

What’s the best way to lose weight – crash diets, fat loss pills and ab blasters…Or something a little less drastic like, say, a healthy diet and exercise? Hmm, that choice shouldn’t be too difficult to make, now should it? The answer is simple – eat fewer calories than you burn off each day and do some exercise. Now where ...

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Wu Long Diet Tea Review

Wu Long Diet Tea Review

We thought a Wu Long diet tea review was long overdue after having seen our 99th ad for the stuff… The claims made for this “slimming tea” are outrageous! So does it work? “Lose 20lbs in 3 weeks”, “Drop a jeans size every 7 days”…. If I were the manufacturer I’d be somewhat concerned about a call from the FTC ...

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ProForm 730 Treadmill Review

ProForm 730 treadmill review

Our ProForm 730 treadmill review takes a look at one of ProForm’s low to mid-price contenders in the home exercise market – can it compete? You can’t fault ProForm, one of the leading names in exercise equipment for trying. They certainly pack the features into their treadmills! You really do get a lot for your money. At just under the ...

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Spirit XT800 Treadmill Review

Spirit XT800 Treadmill

Our Spirit XT800 treadmill review looks at the top of the range XT series treadmill from Spirit. It’s not cheap! So how does it compare to the competition? In a word – very well. Sorry, that’s two words… The $2,000-$3,000 price range is packed with some exceptionally good machines. In this price bracket you can stop thinking about the corners ...

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Spirit XT600 Treadmill Review

spirit xt600 treadmill

Our Spirit XT600 treadmill review runs the rule over a highly rated machine from the much lauded Spirit XT range – is the praise justified? There’s little doubt that the massive investment that parent company Dyaco has invested in the Spirit brand has paid off. Gone are the ugly treadmills of the past, in are the sleek, clean lines of ...

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Fit for Life Diet Review

Fit For Life diet review

Our Fit for Life Diet review takes a look at one of the more bizarre diets of the past 20 years, a bestseller based on some rather eccentric food combining – but will you lose weight? The Fit for Life Diet was all the rage for a while in the 80s and Harvey Diamond and his ex-wife Marilyn sold millions ...

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