Spicing up meals with seasonings and low-carbohydrate sweeteners can discourage dieters from eating excessive amounts of food. Flavouring your dishes will make you feel fuller and thus lower your calorie intake, suggests a new U.S. study that has found that boosting taste with spices may be a revolutionary way to promote a rapid loss of weight.

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Different types of surgical intervention have recently become a popular approach to treating overweight and obesity that is sweeping the industrialized world. Most kinds of weight loss surgery require invasive procedures, such as suturing together the stomach walls or installing into the digestive tract balloons or other objects to prevent patients from consuming large quantities of food. A recent invention in the fields of weight loss surgery requires cutting, or otherwise disrupting the vagus nerve, which carries biochemical signals between the brain and the gut and which is responsible for triggering hunger and stimulating appetite and the release of digestive juices.

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According to some experts, a new weight-loss supplement known as Lipozene, which is based on fibre-rich product glucomannan, can be not as effective as the manufacturer claims. Although the supplement has been developed by a reputable Obesity Research Institute, its alleged effectiveness can be based on thin evidence.

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