The most effective way to lose weight and keep it off is to make weight loss a natural and fun part of the life you already live. You don’t have to run a marathon or live on cabbage soup for weeks on end or give up all the things you enjoy; you just need to make a number of small but significant changes that when put together add up to big benefits. In other words you adopt the habits that naturally slim people have and make them part of your daily routine:

1. Choose satisfied over stuffed

Naturally slim people don’t tend to eat everything on their plate. They’ve managed to get over the ‘waste not, want not,’ barrier to weight loss. They finish eating when they feel satisfied not stuffed. People with weight problems tend to mistakenly equate the sensation of fullness with satisfaction and feel deprived if they stop short or they simply eat every thing on their plate because the habit has been ingrained in them from childhood or school days.

Small change: The next time you sit down to a meal …

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It is well known that green leafy vegetables such as cabbage, cauliflower, kale and broccoli are healthy foods. But did you know that these vegetables may help keep bones strong? And this isn’t merely because some of them contain calcium, but because they are fantastic sources of vitamin K.

Until recently, vitamin K has been most well known as a fat soluble vitamin that plays an important role in blood clotting. However, researchers have also found that circulating vitamin K blood levels are often low in patients with osteoporosis. While a deficiency of vitamin K is considered rare by conventional medicine, a 2006 study by University of Michigan School of Nursing researchers has found that many women in early menopause may not have enough of the vitamin in their bodies. The study suggests that the generally accepted level of vitamin K in healthy women is inadequate to maintain bone health just at the onset of menopause.

Vitamin K is an integral part of bone mineralisation. According to a study that appeared in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition in 1999, Vitamin K is needed to make a protein that’s essential for bone formation. In the great majority of people, beneficial intestinal bacteria make much of the vitamin K needed for this purpose, which is why you hear so little about this vitamin. But to get enough K, especially to keep bones strong, you also need to …

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Aromatherapy is growing more and more popular and for a good reason. It’s simple and non-invasive. You use essential oils, which are distilled and purified from various plants. Aromatherapy is simple to use at home and very safe. Just remember never to take essential oils internally.

Aromatherapy can help alleviate the emotional stresses associated with infertility and especially when going through fertility treatment.

Work carried out by Dr. Gary Schwartz, Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry at Yale University, found that the aromas of some essential oils by themselves affect the nervous system and even reduce blood pressure. The scent of spice apple, for example, was found to reduce blood pressure by an average of three to five points in healthy volunteers. Infertility problems can create enormous emotional stresses and certainly aromatherapy is an excellent therapy to help counter such stress and induce relaxation. Stress does in itself affect your hormones and insulin balance, and extreme stress can delay or even stop your periods.

The therapeutic massage combined with …

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