THE LATEST Slimming News FROM AMERICA

From Carol Hunt - Area Manager - courtesy of Morning TV

Americans are paying £1,400 per week to visit a new health centre in California called the Ashram. Anne Marie - the fitness guru - claims to do the most she can for a person in the shortest possible time. To achieve a weight loss and get people in shape, leaving them lean, mean and hungry.

She guarantees weight loss - usually 8 - 10lb in a week for a woman and 10 - 15lbs for a man. Sounds good to you?

Read on, the programme uses a brisk 15-20 miles jog to start the day, with minimal equipment and food. Fruit and nuts are supplied along with fruit juice and water. You are allowed to sit down to eat them!! But are soon up and about again at the aerobics session, followed by meditation and massage.

If exhaustion does not set in you can use the thigh master rubber exerciser - invented by Annie Marie to trim your thighs. Yes, that is the red and purple rubber thing you bought last year and didn't quite know what to do with it when it's between your knees.

But hold on - shortly to explode on to the British market is a small vinyl 'hedgehog' ball covered with bumps - a bit like the one your dog has probably got. What do you do with it? You sit on it, of course, and roll around so that it can massage your posterior. They don't actually say how much weight loss is achieved by this activity?

Well here at Super Slim we do realise there is a continuing 'open season' for silly solutions to the weight problem. But at around £200 per pound loss - the American way, we still think that we definitely have something better to offer and you become leaner and fitter the easy way and you definitely won't be hungry.