Category: Weight Loss
Upbeat cardio session burns more fat
According to the textbooks, in terms of the energy you burn it makes little difference whether you walk or run. It's the distance that determines how [...]
Do your cardio after weight training and burn more fat
If you do weight training and cardio, you probably do your cardio after the weight training. This order of doing things is beneficial, as this way rou [...]
Weight loss with cardio requires four sessions a week
Weight loss is often most successful if you eat a little less but really increase the amount of exercise you get. It's better to burn calories than no [...]
Caffeine more effective slimming component than green tea or tyrosine
A modest dose of caffeine raises the body's energy expenditure more than do doses of typical metabolic boosters such as green tea extract or tyrosine. [...]
Caffeine + quercetin + exercise = enhanced fat loss
Supplements containing quercetin [structural formula shown below] may well increase fat burning during training, especially when combined with good ol [...]
Superior weight-loss diet: high protein plus capsaicin supplements
If weight loss is your aim, nothing works better than a diet with relatively large amounts of protein. At least, that's what we always thought. But si [...]
Capsaicin keeps metabolic rate high during weight loss diet
You can probably speed up a weight loss diet a little by consuming a gram of chilli powder at meals. According to a human study that Dutch nutritionis [...]
Lose fat faster with 2g choline per day
A supplement containing 2g choline per day speeds up weight loss on a low-calorie diet. Sports scientists at Zagazig University in Egypt came to this [...]
Raspberry ketone: lose weight and strengthen your bones at the same time
Raspberry ketone, a compound found in weight loss supplements, may also make bones stronger, according to an in-vitro study that researchers at Ehime [...]
An hour more sleep reduces fat percentage by three percent
Your fat percentage decreases by 2.8 percent for each hour a day more sleep you get, researchers at the University of Bristol calculated. The research [...]
More arginine – more muscles, less fat
Give rats L-arginine [structural formula shown below] in their food and they become slimmer and more muscular. Even if you feed them more calories the [...]
Fish oil capsules reduce fat rolls
If you give women 3 g of fish oil daily in capsule form, the fat around their middle shrinks. Researchers at Inserm in France discovered this when the [...]
Aloe vera as a slimming supplement
Too fat? Take two aloe vera capsules at breakfast and another two with lunch. Do that for two months and guess what? You lose almost a kilo of fat and [...]
Animal study: acerola inhibits growth of fat tissue
Bodybuilders are always on the look out for strategies that will help minimise the growth of fat reserves while they're on a high-calorie diet. An ani [...]
Study shows fat only shifts with intensive cardio
If you want to lose weight by doing cardio training, you won't achieve much if you train at such a low level that you can keep on chatting while exerc [...]