Why diets don’t work?
It is a matter of fact that dieting doesn’t work. It never has , and it never will. The sheer number should prove this to you. How many diets have there been over the last twenty years? Fifty ?One hundred? Magazine readers are constantly plagued by the promise on the cover “to take off 5 kilos in two weeks” with tips or with one or another diet made up to sell magazines. If they really did work would there be a need for an unending chain of new ones ?
If you decide on taking a sauna bath then it would be advisable to strictly understand certain precautions on entering the sauna bath. This little understanding may prevent the possibility of an uncalled-for situation.
Yes. Communal use of Jacuzzis may result in what is called Folliculitis i.e. inflammation of hair follicles, eight to forty-eight hours after exposure. The condition can be very painful in people with sensitive skin.
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“I love to eat food-simply cannot diet. Can I not just do exercise and lose weight?”
No. You cannot exercise and lose weight. Exercise will not reduce you. According to Dr. O.P. Kapoor, Honorary Professor of Medicine J.J. Group of Hospitals Bombay ” Routine exercises do not lead to weight loss, only very heavy exercises lead to weight loss. But heavy exercises can prove dangerous in an obese person whose body is already over burdened with excess weight. Doctors constantly warn their obese patients against heavy exercise. Certainly there is no need for strenuous calisthenics. A moderate amount of exercise is both necessary and beneficial.
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Lipectomy is cutting away excess fat. Generally, as in liposuction, it is done in the abdominal, thigh, knee, ankle, arm and chin areas and wherever there are unsightly bulges. In lipectomy excess fat and over hanging skin are cut away.
I have heard of an operation that would remove excess fat and result in immediate weight reduction. What is it called ?
The operation you have heard of is a surgical procedure called Liposuction. Liposuction is a method by which the surgeon, loosens and removes fat from any area of the body using metal tubes connected to a suction machine. It was done by a fifty-five-year-old Parisian doctor, Dr. Genard Illouz in 1977.
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The word ‘aerobics’ is a fairly new and certainly fashionable one. But the kind of exercise it encompasses are nothing new at all.
Some overweight people often fall for the ‘Go for the burn’ or ‘Sweating the fat out!’ myth and ignorantly indulge in vigorous exercises often in the heat or with warm clothing,’ in the hope that this ‘melts’ the fat which then comes out as sweat from the skin pores. The medical fact is that physiologically this is impossible, as fat is fat and sweat is sweat and never the twain shall meet.
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Sodium restricted diets are low salt diets prescribed by doctors for patients who have high blood pressure and kidney ailments that lead to oedema (retention of water in the tissues).
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Often, an obese person is less alarmed by general body weight than by hips, waistline, thighs or arms that bulge where they shouldn’t. They are natural prospects for ‘spot reducing’ gadgets which promise to flatten the local bulges. Sauna belts, rollers, vibrators and many more are examples. Science has proved that two things are necessary to lose weight effectively, one: follow a medically oriented weight loss programme so that you burn up excess fat. Two : exercise those areas you specifically wish to reduce, tone and firm.