The answer to this age old question is not a simple one. Why? Because it is all a matter of determining the real slimming pills from the fake.
So what can do you do? How can you find this answer?
One sure way is to look at their backing. Now we don't mean just their customer testimonials. No, we mean everything: their clinical trials, their medical backing and their media coverage.
The media for example would not readily support a slimming pill without believing in the credibility of its weight loss results first. If they did, not only would this open them up to endless letters of complaint if the slimming pill did not work, but also their own position as a reliable source would come under fire.
So you see, unless a newspaper thoroughly believes in the slimming pill themselves, they would never openly advertise a link. Not if there was a small chance it could back-fire on them.
The evidence
Proof of this approach can be seen in the Telegraph's recent feature on Proactol. Within their article based on slimmer's ‘top 5 tips for losing weight in 2008', they voted Proactol as their second choice.
Now considering that the Telegraph is acclaimed for containing the latest in news and scientific information, the fact they have mentioned Proactol numerous times within their article (all in a positive light) is just a further testament to how strongly they believe Proactol is one of the best slimming pills around.
But Proactol's presence within the media has not just been limited to the Telegraph. Proactol has also been featured in the Daily Mail, the New York Times and Florida Style Magazine. Each of which are considered to also be reliable sources for information.
Saying all this, the media is not the only way to determine whether a slimming pill is real or not – though it does set up a good precedent for making a decision.
There are other equally vital points you need to take into consideration when assessing a slimming pill - their clinical trials and their medical backing.
Something that Proactol can also easily prove.
Medically backed by the Medical Device Directive 93/42/EEC, Proactol has undergone 5 successful clinical trials and is clinically proven to help consumers:
• Reduce their fat intake by 28%
• Suppress their appetite
• Decrease their food cravings
• Lower their blood cholesterol
• Cut their calorie intake by 150 calories per main meal.
Add all these facts together and it is easy to see that Proactol is a slimming pill that works.
So whilst it may feel as though most slimming pills don't work, there are ones out there - such as Proactol – which can offer you real credible weight loss results. You just need to know where to look.
Learn more about Proactol here
Monday, March 23, 2009
British reality TV star Jade Goody dies of cancer
LONDON (AFP) – British reality television star Jade Goody, who won the nation's heart with her rags-to-riches success and her very public battle with cervical cancer, died Sunday aged 27.
Prime Minister Gordon Brown led the tributes to the mother-of-two, who lived her adult life in the spotlight but died in her sleep at home at 03:14 am (0314 GMT), with husband Jack Tweed and mother Jackiey Budden by her side.
"My beautiful daughter is at peace," Budden said. Goody's publicist Max Clifford added: "She was a very, very brave girl. And she faced her death in the way she faced her whole life -- full on, with a lot of courage."
said he was "deeply saddened" by Goody's death in Upshire, southeast England, and hailed the effect of the intense media coverage of her dying days in raising awareness of cancer among young people.
The months of publicity, fuelled by intense debate involving uneasy media commentators, reportedly led to a 20 percent rise in the number of young women taking the smear tests that can detect cervical cancer.
However, Goody maintained she only cashed-in on her circumstances -- including selling the rights to her February wedding for vast sums -- to guarantee financial independence for her two young sons.
An ex-dental nurse from south London with a troubled family background, Goody shot to celebrity with a loudmouthed appearance on the "Big Brother" reality television franchise when it appeared on British screens in 2002.
She capitalised by releasing an autobiography, perfume and exercise video, becoming a millionaire in the process.
But her career came close to ruin when she subjected Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty to racist bullying on a celebrity edition of the show in 2007, calling her "Shilpa Poppadom."
The two later made peace and Goody appeared on the Indian version of "Big Brother," hosted by .
Goody was forced to pull out after receiving her cancer diagnosis as the cameras rolled.
"She was a courageous woman both in life and death," Brown said in a statement.
"She will be remembered fondly by all who knew her and her family can be extremely proud of the work she has done to raise awareness of cervical cancer."
Harpal Kumar, chief executive of charity Cancer Research UK, said she had done a "great public service" as her "brave battle... encouraged thousands of women to seek advice on how to prevent the disease".
Shetty said she was "deeply saddened" by the news but "glad she is out of pain."
Goody married Tweed -- a 21-year-old aspiring footballers' agent jailed last year for attacking a 16-year-old with a golf club -- on February 22, nine days after he proposed in hospital following her terminal diagnosis.
Media rights for the lavish ceremony at a country house hotel north of London were reportedly sold for one million pounds (1.1 million euros, 1.4 million dollars).
Goody and sons Bobby, five, and Freddy, four -- who she had with ex-boyfriend and television presenter Jeff Brazier -- were christened on March 7, another event captured by a magazine.
Her publicist Clifford said she wanted the christening so her sons "know about Jesus and hopefully in the years ahead they'll be able to keep in touch with (her) through Jesus."
Her funeral, to be held at her local church in the next 10 days, will again be a very public affair. Clifford said Goody had planned it herself and that it would be "very much a Jade Goody production."
Goody's body was taken out of her home shortly before 8:00 am (0800 GMT) as mourners started leaving floral tributes at the gates.
Phil Edgar-Jones, the man who selected her to appear on the Big Brother in 2002, suggested Goody was so popular because she represented millions of people in Britain who had had a difficult upbringing and no real education.
"She showed that an ordinary person with no particular talent, no particular life chances, could make something of herself," he told Channel Four News.
by Katherine Haddon Katherine Haddon
Prime Minister Gordon Brown led the tributes to the mother-of-two, who lived her adult life in the spotlight but died in her sleep at home at 03:14 am (0314 GMT), with husband Jack Tweed and mother Jackiey Budden by her side.
"My beautiful daughter is at peace," Budden said. Goody's publicist Max Clifford added: "She was a very, very brave girl. And she faced her death in the way she faced her whole life -- full on, with a lot of courage."
said he was "deeply saddened" by Goody's death in Upshire, southeast England, and hailed the effect of the intense media coverage of her dying days in raising awareness of cancer among young people.
The months of publicity, fuelled by intense debate involving uneasy media commentators, reportedly led to a 20 percent rise in the number of young women taking the smear tests that can detect cervical cancer.
However, Goody maintained she only cashed-in on her circumstances -- including selling the rights to her February wedding for vast sums -- to guarantee financial independence for her two young sons.
An ex-dental nurse from south London with a troubled family background, Goody shot to celebrity with a loudmouthed appearance on the "Big Brother" reality television franchise when it appeared on British screens in 2002.
She capitalised by releasing an autobiography, perfume and exercise video, becoming a millionaire in the process.
But her career came close to ruin when she subjected Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty to racist bullying on a celebrity edition of the show in 2007, calling her "Shilpa Poppadom."
The two later made peace and Goody appeared on the Indian version of "Big Brother," hosted by .
Goody was forced to pull out after receiving her cancer diagnosis as the cameras rolled.
"She was a courageous woman both in life and death," Brown said in a statement.
"She will be remembered fondly by all who knew her and her family can be extremely proud of the work she has done to raise awareness of cervical cancer."
Harpal Kumar, chief executive of charity Cancer Research UK, said she had done a "great public service" as her "brave battle... encouraged thousands of women to seek advice on how to prevent the disease".
Shetty said she was "deeply saddened" by the news but "glad she is out of pain."
Goody married Tweed -- a 21-year-old aspiring footballers' agent jailed last year for attacking a 16-year-old with a golf club -- on February 22, nine days after he proposed in hospital following her terminal diagnosis.
Media rights for the lavish ceremony at a country house hotel north of London were reportedly sold for one million pounds (1.1 million euros, 1.4 million dollars).
Goody and sons Bobby, five, and Freddy, four -- who she had with ex-boyfriend and television presenter Jeff Brazier -- were christened on March 7, another event captured by a magazine.
Her publicist Clifford said she wanted the christening so her sons "know about Jesus and hopefully in the years ahead they'll be able to keep in touch with (her) through Jesus."
Her funeral, to be held at her local church in the next 10 days, will again be a very public affair. Clifford said Goody had planned it herself and that it would be "very much a Jade Goody production."
Goody's body was taken out of her home shortly before 8:00 am (0800 GMT) as mourners started leaving floral tributes at the gates.
Phil Edgar-Jones, the man who selected her to appear on the Big Brother in 2002, suggested Goody was so popular because she represented millions of people in Britain who had had a difficult upbringing and no real education.
"She showed that an ordinary person with no particular talent, no particular life chances, could make something of herself," he told Channel Four News.
by Katherine Haddon Katherine Haddon
Sunday, March 22, 2009
Mothering Sunday: A Brief History
Mothering Sunday is a Christian festival celebrated throughout Europe. Secularly it is used as a celebration of motherhood, and is synonymous to Mother's Day as celebrated in other countries; the latter name is also increasingly used.
A religious festival celebrating motherhood has been existent in Europe since approximately 250 BC when the Romans honoured the mother goddess Cybele during mid-March. As the Roman Empire and Europe converted to Christianity, Mothering Sunday celebrations became part of the liturgical calendar as Laetare Sunday, the fourth Sunday in Lent to honour the Virgin Mary and the "mother church"[1].
During the sixteenth century, people returned to their mother church for a service to be held on Laetare Sunday. This was either a large local church, or more often the nearest Cathedral. Anyone who did this was commonly said to have gone "a-mothering", although whether this preceded the term Mothering Sunday is unclear. It was often the only time that whole families could gather together, if prevented by conflicting working hours.
The Epistle for the fourth Sunday in Lent as set out in the Book of Common Prayer gives a special place to the theme of maternal love: Galatians 4:26 states that "Jerusalem which is above is free; which is Mother of us all."
The other names attributed to this festival include Simnel Sunday, Refreshment Sunday and Rose Sunday. Simnel Sunday is named after the practice of baking Simnel cakes to celebrate the reuniting of families during the austerity of Lent. Because there is traditionally a lightening of Lenten vows on this particular Sunday in celebration of the fellowship of family and church, the lesser-used label of Refreshment Sunday is also used, although rarely today.
Rose Sunday is sometimes used as an alternative title for Mothering Sunday as well, as is witnessed by the purple robes of Lent being replaced in some churches by rose-coloured ones. This title refers to the tradition of posies of flowers being collected and distributed at the service originally to all the mothers, but latterly to all women in the congregation. The 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia, however, asserts that "the Golden Rose, sent by the Popes to Catholic sovereigns, used to be blessed at this time, and for this reason the day was sometimes called 'Dominica de Rosa'.
This Sunday was also once known as "the Sunday of the Five Loaves", from the traditional Gospel reading for the day. Prior to the adoption of the modern "common" lectionaries, the Gospel reading for this Sunday in the Anglican, Roman Catholic, Western-Rite Orthodox, and Old Catholic churches was the story of the feeding of the five thousand (for instance, the Anglican Book of Common Prayer stipulates St John's Gospel 6:5-14).
Another tradition associated with Mothering Sunday is the practice of "clipping the church", whereby the congregation form a ring around their church building and, holding hands, embrace it.
For some Church of England churches, it is the only day in Lent when marriages can be celebrated.
In later times, Mothering Sunday became a day when domestic servants were given a day off to visit their mothers and other family members.
Mothering Sunday remains in the calendar of some Canadian Anglican churches, particularly those with strong English connections.
Happy Mothering Sunday to all Mothers.The big question is,have you bought your wife or mother a gift?
A religious festival celebrating motherhood has been existent in Europe since approximately 250 BC when the Romans honoured the mother goddess Cybele during mid-March. As the Roman Empire and Europe converted to Christianity, Mothering Sunday celebrations became part of the liturgical calendar as Laetare Sunday, the fourth Sunday in Lent to honour the Virgin Mary and the "mother church"[1].
During the sixteenth century, people returned to their mother church for a service to be held on Laetare Sunday. This was either a large local church, or more often the nearest Cathedral. Anyone who did this was commonly said to have gone "a-mothering", although whether this preceded the term Mothering Sunday is unclear. It was often the only time that whole families could gather together, if prevented by conflicting working hours.
The Epistle for the fourth Sunday in Lent as set out in the Book of Common Prayer gives a special place to the theme of maternal love: Galatians 4:26 states that "Jerusalem which is above is free; which is Mother of us all."
The other names attributed to this festival include Simnel Sunday, Refreshment Sunday and Rose Sunday. Simnel Sunday is named after the practice of baking Simnel cakes to celebrate the reuniting of families during the austerity of Lent. Because there is traditionally a lightening of Lenten vows on this particular Sunday in celebration of the fellowship of family and church, the lesser-used label of Refreshment Sunday is also used, although rarely today.
Rose Sunday is sometimes used as an alternative title for Mothering Sunday as well, as is witnessed by the purple robes of Lent being replaced in some churches by rose-coloured ones. This title refers to the tradition of posies of flowers being collected and distributed at the service originally to all the mothers, but latterly to all women in the congregation. The 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia, however, asserts that "the Golden Rose, sent by the Popes to Catholic sovereigns, used to be blessed at this time, and for this reason the day was sometimes called 'Dominica de Rosa'.
This Sunday was also once known as "the Sunday of the Five Loaves", from the traditional Gospel reading for the day. Prior to the adoption of the modern "common" lectionaries, the Gospel reading for this Sunday in the Anglican, Roman Catholic, Western-Rite Orthodox, and Old Catholic churches was the story of the feeding of the five thousand (for instance, the Anglican Book of Common Prayer stipulates St John's Gospel 6:5-14).
Another tradition associated with Mothering Sunday is the practice of "clipping the church", whereby the congregation form a ring around their church building and, holding hands, embrace it.
For some Church of England churches, it is the only day in Lent when marriages can be celebrated.
In later times, Mothering Sunday became a day when domestic servants were given a day off to visit their mothers and other family members.
Mothering Sunday remains in the calendar of some Canadian Anglican churches, particularly those with strong English connections.
Happy Mothering Sunday to all Mothers.The big question is,have you bought your wife or mother a gift?
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