In some cases, exercising can actually increase your weight due to the fact that muscle is more dense and heavy (weight) than fat. So by turning fat to muscle, your actual weight may increase. Although that likely is rare to be a bad thing. Almost always, muscle is better than fat.

I understand that a model/celebrity’s image is their livelihood, but what message does this send to girls growing up in this day and age? I try to make comments about Photoshop to my daughter as she reads Teen Vogue, and i think in the back of her mind she is aware that the images she’s looking at are not reality. However, in her everyday life, she tries to emulate “perfection,” and when she falls short (which we all do), she can get very upset, either with herself or with the product that she has saved up for weeks to buy (they are not cheap).

However, what most people do not realize is that many experts are starting to see diet has having a dramatically greater effect on weight than exercise. The reason: primarily because it takes so much exercise to burn energy (calories) whereas you can consume a large number of calories (not to mention the wrong kinds of calories like fatty foods) in a short period of time.

By 2010, more doctor fish spas started in China, Hainan, Belgium, South Korea, Netherlands, Hungary and Singapore. India, Thailand, Slovakia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Hong Kong and Philippines are other countries which came up with this concept. Romania and Bucharest also emerged with this technique of spa treatment.

There are several women in my personal life that refuse to leave their homes sans makeup. If they are not made-up and I ask them to go to the gas station up the street with me, I have to wait for them to paint their masks on. Just as we walk around wearing our emotional masks with smiles on our faces like everything is hunky-dory, I believe that makeup can also act as a mask. It makes us look “better” than we really are – we can hide the bags under our eyes that give away how tired we are and fill in the frown lines that have formed over the years from stress.

We knew there were scores of people out there thirsty for this information! They want to escape their excess weight, bad beauty and body and worries over their health and want to start living a life of freedom and happiness!

According to Cynthia Winston, assistant professor of psychology at Howard University in Washington, D.C., We really don’t know much about how blacks are influenced. Most of the research focuses on perceptions related to skin color. Foe most African-Americans, perception can be shaped by their environment. For example, an African-American woman growing up in an all-white neighborhood in Nebraska may be more likely than an African-American woman raised in inner-city Detroit to compare herself with white images of beauty.