Just as there is a vast an profitable multinational pharmaceutical industry selling us cures for medical conditions they’ve yet to discover or invent so is their a huge market for people who want a quick fix to the problem of loosing weight. But by now we’re growing up and we realise that, like Santa Claus, heir’s no such thing. The simple truth is that if you ingest more calories (food energy) than you burn up you’ll store the difference in fat about your body.

Apart from making you look and feel better loosing weight has particularly good benefits in reducing hypertension. That fat you put on your body isn’t just hanging around your waist and hips it’s also lining and clogging up the arteries, veins and other blood vessels that supply vital oxygen and nutrient in the blood stream. The more this tubing is furred up then the harder the heart has to pump to force the blood through which increases the blood pressure also on a heart under strain though the extra exertion of carrying the extra weight around all the time.. And that fat isn’t dead; it needs its own blood supply