If you’re bigger around the hips and butt than you’d like to be, there’s some good news for you.
It seems that fat that settles around your thighs and buttocks may be better for you than a spare tire around the middle according to experts from Oxford University. A new review of the data on body [...]
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
When it comes to looking older your skin is the feature that most reliably tells your age. A study by experts at Case Western Reserve Medical School in Cleveland using twin subjects finds that lifestyle choices, including smoking, being overweight, not using sunscreen, all take a toll on already sun damaged skin.
Twins were used because [...]
Resisting temptation isn’t easy for anyone… especially when you’ve gotten into the habit of indulging yourself, as many of us have.
But a new study by researchers out of the University of Texas at Austin looked for ways to help us to resist temptation and suggests the key to doing so is to exaggerate the threat.
So [...]
In recent years the focus of the diet world and many public health programs has been on overall weight loss and the body mass index – leaving visceral fat virtually unnoticed.
Yet visceral fat (fat around the organs) is a stronger predictor of early death than any other number… either BMI or the one that shows [...]
Thursday, January 14, 2010
No doubt you’ve heard all the “heart healthy” claims made by many foods and diet plans, yet a review conducted by Andrew Mente, Ph.D. of the Population Health Research Institute and colleagues shows only some of these plans back up those claims with strong evidence of actually lowering your heart disease risk.
Until this work, there [...]
Sunday, December 20, 2009
As we approach the time of year when resolutions are about losing weight… you might be interested in a well-kept secret to achieving this goal of really losing and keeping the weight off – That’s both affordable and natural.
Best of all, it’s no weight loss gimmick; it’s a way to eat that you can stick [...]
Tuesday, December 15, 2009
Amazingly both our small and large intestines are home for literally millions of microbes, bacteria and other fungi essential to digestion and keeping our bodies in good health.
Shifts in the microbial environment of the digestive tract, or bacteria in the gut, are worthy of more attention according to Washington University researchers, perhaps providing clues to [...]
Thursday, December 10, 2009
There’s some intriguing new research out of Boston University School of Medicine that suggests for some, losing weight might be just as tough as kicking hard-core drug or alcohol addiction. So how do you stop compulsive eating.
Science is fascinated by overeating, due in part to its link to evolution. Once food was hard to come [...]
Tuesday, December 8, 2009
The debate between low fat diet plan and low carb diets continues… and while both plans, when followed faithfully, can have you losing weight, a recent study out of Australia should help you make the choice between the two when it comes to how you’ll feel while following these eating plans.
The work, appearing in the [...]
Monday, November 30, 2009
You may have heard, from your mother or another well-meaning family member, that eating slowly is good for you.
Now new research appearing in The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism suggests that there is more than a bit of truth to this time honored wisdom
Wolfing down your food makes you far more likely to eat [...]
