Coca-Cola and Nestle seem to think so in a joint collaboration between the two giants, they say that their new products will help you lose weight. If you consume three cans per day of this said beverage, they say that you will burn between a 60 and 100 calories.

The key ingredient of this new drink is green tea which also claims to be an aid in weight loss. Studies were done at Nestlé’s research centre in Switzerland, where the following was noted that during the course of a day if you consume this drink, calorie burning was found to be in effect. If that isn’t enough to satisfy you John Hackett of Coca-Cola says this.

“Enviga is a great tasting beverage that invigorates your metabolism to gently burn calories, and it’s a positive step people can take as part of a balanced lifestyle — like taking the stairs.” So we can stop taking even that modest amount of exercise“

As regards the amount of people who were actually involved in the research is debatable some sources have said lower than 35 people were involved in the study. So would this be worthwhile in the long run, if you think about it probably not burning that amount calories, would be quite easy to lose by just doing some moderate exercise. Or failing that just eat a hundred calories less in your diet and do it that way.

Via http://www.upi.com

The pomegranate is well-deserved the title of the title of a superfood, one pomegranate contains 800 or so seeds, which all have vitamin C, some studies have been done revolving around pomegranate juice, 45 test subjects were given either pomegranate juice or a placebo, and monitored these people had ischemic heart disease, there blood flow was measured during and after exercise, the research found that the test subjects who had been given the juice had had better oxygen deficiency, than those who took the placebo.
Which means increased blood flow to the heart. Quite a few other studies have been done proving that pomegranate juice or eating pomegranate themselves, can reduce LDL cholesterol which is the bad sort.

Also other research suggests that pomegranates may be effective against prostate cancer, pomegranates have also a lot of antioxidant vitamins in them, so much so they have three more times the amount than these three other drinks red wine, green tea and orange juice the role antioxidants have in the body, is they protect the cell walls from free radicals, think of them as spring cleaning for your body, like a little army protecting your cells from damage if it wasn’t for the antioxidants then cell damage may occur which would lead to disease. Which in essence means eating foods with antioxidants in will protect your body from damage in the long-term.

Pomegranates contain the following vitamins vitamin C. which I have already mentioned they also contain vitamins A,E potassium and iron.

So here we have yet another all-round super food, if you don’t particularly want to have to open a pomegranate up, you could always go for some pomegranate juice instead.

One pomegranate contains 105 calories, which isn’t a great deal really when you think about it, so possibly one food that might be able to help in your weight loss programme as well as being a healthy option.

Hi there it’s Friday once again and time to jump on the scales and see where we are now, and even though, I haven’t done any real exercise over the past few weeks, I’ve now managed to drop down to 95 kilograms, or 15 stones, so things are still moving steadily on, about the only change I have made to my diet just recently, is having soup and opted for a vegetable one and then added more vegetables to it to add a bit more bulk to it, I’ve been adding mushrooms and tomatoes, due to the fact that these contain water anyway they make you feel more full, plus the soup is liquid-based that tends to make you feel full also.

So here’s how it looks see you soon.

The society that we live in these days is very much, got to have it now, got to get it done now I need it now. So could this be a reason that makes us overweight, think about this if you think back to how things used to be 10 to 15 years ago or more, things may have not been so hectic as they are now, fast-food restaurants may have not been in existence, the Internet, was very much in its infancy. So in reality there was no way of getting food fast at all, microwave ovens were around but they might not have been so many microwave ready meals, around at the time.
So let’s fast forward to where we are now, you get your microwave ready meal, put in the microwave bearing in mind that this might be full of sugar and fat and excess calories
set the timer for eight minutes say, your food is cooked within eight minutes and ready to eat hardly any time waiting in order to eat your food, now think about having three of those within one day, all full of sugar and fat and loaded with calories.

Where as if you think about it, how much is that eight minutes really saving you, in order to lose one pound of fat you need a deficit of approximately 500 calories per day times that by seven and you have the figure of 3500 calories approximately. So in order to lose this weight you now have to spend, time exercising three to four times per week say 30 minutes or more in order to lose the weight that you may have gained eating the food in the first place, now this food could come from anywhere, imagine this you’re sitting at home thinking about watching a movie there isn’t it much food in the house, so you pick up the phone and order a pizza, or some other take-away food either over the Internet or some other means so in reality, it’s very easy to get food within an instant you don’t even need to use a microwave if you don’t want to.

In fact why bother, when someone else can do it for you so by you can see how the foundations for some eating habits are laid down. But it doesn’t stop there it might take longer to prepare a meal using fresh food, but think about this if you haven’t had eaten all the food in the first place, none of this would have happened but the problem is, how long does it take to lose all that weight, if you’re thin you only need to do a reasonable amount of exercise in order to stay that way, it takes far more effort and time when you’re overweight to lose it than if you are not. So the way I see it impatience does cost in the long run.