Most of us with normal thyroid function tend to think it’s pretty hard to lose weight. Imagine how people with a slow thyroid feel. People with a slow thyroid, or with hypothyroidism, have a really hard time losing weight and often times have a hard time trying to maintain a normal healthy weight because of this problem.

Your thyroid gland is actually a seemingly inconsequential gland that is located in the neck, which helps to regulate your metabolism. I

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As the body ages, our contours tend to lose the battle with gravity, and over the years the pounds seem to creep up without our noticing. For women in particular childbirth seems to cause weight to accumulate in places from where it simply will not budge (remember it is not possible to do spot reduction from any one place on the body).

Also, those of us who have had very significant weight loss find that the skin tends to hang down in loose unseemly folds.

For each of these instances a body shaper or body slimmer kind of product can help. Consider what a body shaper can help you with-

• It can smooth and flatten bulges, lumps and so on – the abdomen can appear flatter, the hips a smoother curve and the waist a lot trimmer. I

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Among the many fad diets that periodically do the rounds is the HCG diet, and like all fad diets it works beautifully for some people but can, at the same time, be dangerous. In this diet, the hCG hormone is injected into the dieter who then eats only 500 calories each day, for 40 days and in this way may achieve weight loss of up to 30 pounds a month.

This is supposed to help one lose stored fat in the body, without feeling the extreme hunger pangs that such a low calorie diet would otherwise cause.

This diet may have caught on in a big way in recent times, but it was way back in the 1950’s that it was discovered by British endocrinologist A.T.W. S

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For those keep fit conscious people having to tighten their belts in recent times, an expensive gym membership may have been one of the first casualties when it came to cutbacks. A more cost effective option is putting together a home gym – while the initial outlay is undoubtedly big, the long term cost benefits are huge.

With that in mind, here follow five ideal pieces of equipment for starting off your own home gym. Any one of the following options would be an ideal starting point, while a combination of several would be fantastic.

Exercise bike

Perfect for those who want to ease themselves in to keep fit with a familiar piece of equipment, exercise bikes are easy to operate but offer a great workout. T

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