Medication and Health Focus – Optimal Health, Nutritional and Healthy Lifestyle

Changes in Metabolism Scientists have found that smokers generally weigh less than nonsmokers. Smoking may affect the amount and the types of food that people eat and how their body processes food, causing smokers to have a lower body weight. One of the physical reasons some people gain weight when they quit is because of changes in metabolism. Your metabolic rate is related to how your body burns calories. It regulates the processes by which your body gets its energy ...

The Pritikin principle or the Pritikin diet as it is known to all who tried to lose weight is a way of healthy living. The basic theory behind this system is that we are eating too many processed foods that are heavy in calories and easy and quick to digest, therefore leaving us hungry quickly and more prone to eat bigger quantities. This diet advocates going back to basics, to the way people used to eat in the past. It tries ...