You canât cure colds or the flu, but you can relieve the cough and sore throat that sometimes comes with them. Use cough drops or hard candy. Menthol and certain herbal cough drops can slightly numb and soothe your sore throat. But sucking on plain hard candy may work just as well. Try a teaspoon of honey.
The researchers showed that during weight loss, 84 percent of the fat that is lost turns into carbon dioxide and leaves the body through the lungs, whereas the remaining 16 percent becomes water, according to the study published today (Dec. 16) in a special Christmas issue of the medical journal BMJ.
In the meanwhile, here's an example to illustrate how muscle loss on a diet can cause droopy folds of flabby, loose skin. Let's say you start at a bodyweight of 115 pounds, in good toned shape with firm skin, but you gradually gain 100 pounds of body fat. You then go on some sort of crash weight-loss program or have bariatric surgery to quickly lose those 100 pounds. However, let's say not all of the weight you lose is body fat. Perhaps 20% of your lost weight is muscle. This is not unusual on a severe crash diet, and many people lose much more muscle than that on these diets. In fact, if you were to fast on just water, 60% of your weight loss would be muscle.