Green tea can boost your health in some pretty amazing ways. First of all, you need to know that it comes well recommended. The Chinese have been drinking this beverage for thousands of years — giving it a long and proven history as a health remedy.
Modern research too has shown that drinking green tea is beneficial to your health.
Here’s a list of seven health benefits of this tried and true brew:
1. Weight loss
Drinking this beverage helps you feel full, so it can curb your appetite. It may also help you …

1. Sniff a banana, apple, or peppermint
You might feel silly, but it works. When Dr Alan R. Hirsch of the Smell & Taste Treatment and Research Foundation in Chicago tried this with 3,000 volunteers, he found that the more frequently people sniffed, the less hungry they were and the more weight they lost – an average of 30 lb each. One theory is that sniffing the food tricks the brain into thinking you’re actually eating it.
2. Hang a mirror opposite your seat at …

When Ramadan arrives during the monsoon season, the last thing on anyone’s mind is to sweat excessively. Strenuous activity is avoided and sloth seeps in our lives. As a result, those who are fasting try to tone down activity to a bare minimum to avoid depleting sugar levels or dehydration and overall lethargy during the daytime.
“We call this ‘lazy weather’,” says Zarak Khan, owner of Zarak’s Gym in Islamabad, an establishment he’s been running for the past six months. “Business does slow down a little during Ramadan. A lot of …

For a quick fix the cabbage soup diet is great, and is a good way to kick start healthier eating habits.
The results you get in terms of weight loss and waist loss are great motivators, but it can be disheartening when you start to eat normally again and the scales start to creep up again.
In terms of nutrition and calories, there are lots of key vitamins and minerals missing day to day, which is why it is best to limit this diet plan to the recommended seven days.
The cabbage soup …

Ingredients:
6 large spring onions
2 green peppers
1 or 2 cans of tomatoes
3 carrots
1 container of button mushrooms
1 bunch of celery
half a head of cabbage
1 or 2 cubes of bouillon (optional)
Season to taste with pepper, parsley, curry powder or garlic

How to make:

Sauté the spring onions and green pepper
Remove the outer layers off the cabbage, cut into bite size pieces and add to the pan.
Add the chopped mushrooms, celery and carrots and add the tomatoes.
For a spicy flavor add curry powder or cayenne …

For those of you brave enough, desperate enough or curious enough to want to put the cabbage soup diet plan to the test, here’s what to do:
Day One:

On day one limit yourself to eating cabbage soup and any fruit you want – except bananas. Wash down your grub with unsweetened teas, cranberry juice and water.
Day Two:

Day two should be dedicated to more cabbage soup and a range of vegetables. Whether you eat your veggies raw, cooked or combined, make sure you keep hunger at bay with veggies and where possible …

Ah, the cabbage soup – a speed slimmer’s best friend and your bowel’s worst nightmare.
Everyone’s heard of this cult diet, but losing weight by eating a staple diet of cabbage soup (which even smells unappealing before it leaves the other end) and a mixture of fruit and veg isn’t the most glamorous way to slim down.
Nonetheless, for special dresses and any event on your social calendar that requires you to look like a leaner version of yourself, then the cabbage soup diet does what it sets out to.
The cabbage soup …

Weight loss plans are big business in the modern world . Every day another ‘diet’ of one sort or another is mentioned in the media. Any women’s magazine will likely contain one per issue. Ironically these are often featured on a cover that also carries an image of a high-calorie dessert.
Clearly those weight loss plans don’t and won’t work for everyone. Otherwise why bother to produce yet another bizarre way of eating? That is part of the problem of course. Sustained weight loss involves a change of lifestyle. No diet …

When it comes to achieving weight loss, you see many people trying out many different things. Dieting happens to be one such thing. A lot of weight watchers end up spending a considerable amount of time and energy in devising various diet plans and meal plans for weight loss. However, there exist some who have little or no knowledge about the same, i.e. meal plans for losing weight. For the benefit of such people, presented ahead, are a few sample meal plans to lose weight and gain muscle.
Diet Meal Plans …

Just a few bad habits — watching TV, eating potato chips, having a sugary soda at lunch or staying up too late at night – can add up to a steady creep of pounds over the years.
Consultant Nutritionist from Pakistan, Ayesha Abbas, believes that apart from the inactive lifestyle and calorie-rich food intake of the general population of Pakistan, Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCO) is also an underlying cause of obesity in the country.
However, while most studies on diets focus on changes needed to help obese people lose weight, a …