Tag Archives : Weight Loss

A new weapon in the fight against fat is under way: a mobile application that makes the calorie count based on picture of the food on their plate. Although there are applications for this purpose, these programs require users to enter the type of food and caloric information. Since the software developed by NTT Communications, Japan, evaluates the [...]

Surprises never seem to cease, and here is yet another product that claims to help people reduce their weight. The Waff Bean Bag is a unique product that lets you sit on it, and helps you lose weight. Now of course you would want to know what the mechanism behind this claimed wonder product is. To be honest, I am not sure myself, and apparently it provides [...]

With today’s fast paced life and extremely imbalanced dietary habits, people are increasingly heading to the nearest gyms to ensure that, no matter what, they stay healthy and give their bodies a dose of exercise, that is too hard to find time for these days. However, one of the biggest dilemmas when it comes to exercising is the selection of [...]

The biggest social networking service on the internet, Facebook, which is one of the few websites that actually take user privacy to the letter is now cracking down hard on the fan pages that have been found to be spamming the affiliated links. Facebook regulators are fast blocking and deleting such pages, apparently in an effort to curb the spamming [...]

Those that are over weight probably already know the basic: to eat less and better and to practice exercises. Those are the presuppositions of every diet, but an option that guarantees better results always appears. Now it is the time of Twitter. The “Tweet What You Eat” diet combines other two simple ways to lose weight: the friends’ pressure [...]

How often have you come close to hitting the gym at home and shied away from that space guzzler called treadmill? Stuck between the eyesore and body fat, one is always having to compromise on either of the two to shed flab. But if Florida-based designer Jeff Smith has his way in the treadmill markets, having to drive down to gyms for just that machine [...]

HealthyWage is a new start up which was presented at the TechCrunch50 today. The company tries to incentivize people’s workout plans and if someone achieves the goal of losing a certain amount of weight, they would be given a reward at the end of the year. Users can post what they ate, and the portal would calculate protein, fat, carbohydrates [...]

If you thought growing fat is disgusting, here is something more disgusting than that: relaying and sharing your shame and disgust about growing fatter across the Internet. BodyTrace is a wireless scale which sends your weight to the Internet every time you check your own bodyweight. The machine costs $119 and a 3 month subscription costs $19.99. You [...]

Obesity has been a problem of the Western world and it is not a cosmetic problem but a serious health concern. Weight loss through pills and programs has been common among many people. These efforts, however, have been futile for some, and useless to many. Weight regain often follows these weight loss regimens, some at even heavier weight. Weight cycling [...]

Atkins Nutritionals has launched a new ad campaign for its once famous Atkins Diet. It seems online and print campaign is also an attempt to be “less clinical” and “more contemporary”. This also means the Atkins Diet is trying to make a ‘trendy’ comeback in the lives of diet conscious middle aged modern urban people. The Print ads in the [...]