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Is Weight Loss One Of The Advantages Of Eating Chocolate?

Tuesday, May 15, 2012

Weight loss as one of the advantages of eating chocolate sounds ridiculous doesn’t it? That is until you understand the science behind it. If you’re trying to lose weight (and who isn’t?) you might not have to ban chocolate from your diet. At least not dark chocolate…
A new study appearing in the Archives of Internal [...]

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Could Unroasted Coffee Beans Aid Weight Loss?

Tuesday, May 8, 2012

How’s this for intriguing news? An extract of green (unroasted) coffee beans, when taken as a daily supplement, can help you drop those pounds – so say the findings of a small study presented at the annual meeting of the American Chemical Society. The work included 16 patients (aged 22 to 26) who were either [...]

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Links Between Weight Gain And Lack Of Sleep

Tuesday, April 24, 2012

Yet another reason to get your sleep. A new study discovers a link between weight gain and lack of sleep, finding that if you’re sleep deprived you’ll eat more calories than usual, and this can cause you to gain weight rather quickly.
Researchers compared subjects who slept as much as they wanted to those who were [...]

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Eating Less To Lose Weight Made Easier

Thursday, April 5, 2012

Supersized portions are one of the culprits blamed for our ever expanding waistlines, and nowhere is this more evident than in restaurants. Experts are working to tap into the psychology of our eating behaviors to try and come up with ways to help people with eating less to lose weight, without leaving diners feeling cheated. [...]

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The Best And Quickest Way To Lose Weight Is Teamwork

Sunday, April 1, 2012

Going it alone, especially when it comes to weight loss, makes a tough task that much more difficult. A new study appearing in Obesity on the the best and quickest way to lose weight shows that those who lost at least 5% (an amount considered significant to improving health) of their initial body weight as [...]

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Is The Obesity Gene A Reality?

Thursday, March 29, 2012

When it comes to obesity, both genetics and environment are thought to play their parts. A new study appearing in the journal Nature suggests that a genetic mutation may give rise to a obesity gene that could be the reason some people are at higher risk of becoming obese when they eat the all too typical [...]

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Fructose In Foods To Blame For Obesity?

Sunday, March 25, 2012

We may want to blame fructose in foods for all those pounds we’re carrying, but a new review of the literature suggests we not be so quick to cast the blame on one thing and one thing alone.
The review, appearing in the Annals of Internal Medicine, finds that extra calories, not some unique property of [...]

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Benefits Of Exercise On The Heart

Thursday, March 22, 2012

We all know regular exercise is good for the body… now new research appearing in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology finds benefits of exercise on the heart could help hold off heart disease even if you’re carrying more weight than you should be.
Fitness level may, in fact, be more important than the [...]

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Counting Calories To Lose Weight Really Works

Thursday, March 8, 2012

We can all agree that losing excess weight is good for us… though we often disagree over which diet plan is the right one, the best way to drop those unwanted pounds. It seems that counting calories to lose weight is the best way.
Lots of times people take drastic measures to get results when all [...]

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Excess Weight A Cause Of Back Pain

Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Back pain is one of our modern world’s most common complaints. A recent study in the journal Arthritis & Rheumatism has found that more severe lumbar spinal disc degeneration is found in overweight and obese patients than in those of normal weight. In fact, too much weight may be a cause of back pain according [...]

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