LOSING excess weight, reviewing your exercise programme, lowering your bad cholesterol, optimising your blood pressure and avoiding harmful supplements will certainly start you on the path towards a healthy new year.

Lose that excess weight

Successful weight loss programmes require a combination of dietary measures and exercise. There is no lack of dietary regimes that tout the effectiveness of their programmes to transform your body from a couch potato appearance into a finely chiselled athletic physique. Alas, the truth is that most people who enrol in such dietary weight loss programmes put back most of the kilograms that have been shed by the end of the second year. Like it or not, exercise is an integral part and a necessary component for successful weight loss.