We all know that even the best weight-loss plan can be beaten up by uncontrollable food cravings. How can we cope with them? Amanda Brown, a healthy lifestyle boffin from AllWomensTalk, offers an easy way to zip up those unhealthy yearnings for sweet and fatty treats. In order to nip food cravings and lose weight successfully, all we need is to avoid five particular products!

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Turmeric, a spicy vegetable extensively used in the Indian cuisine to prepare flavourful curries, can become a new weight loss remedy. Long known for its ability to heal wounds, facilitate digestion and combat inflammation, turmeric has recently been noted for its capacity to fight weight gain and prevent the development of type 2 diabetes. The results of this new study on turmeric have been presented at an annual meeting of the Endocrine Society in San Francisco.

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According to a research reported by Canadian Press, eating a large, nutrient-packed breakfast that provides a balanced ratio of proteins, fats and carbohydrates can be the best strategy to achieve successful weight loss. A big morning meal that can include eggs, cold cuts, wholemeal breads, healthy cereals, fruits, and even a piece of dark chocolate or a cup of steaming cocoa with milk, helps curb food cravings during the day and can significantly aid in shedding off unwanted pounds.

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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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