Use whatever name you like… abdominal fat… a spare tire… love handles… muffin top… a new study out of the Boston University School of Medicine that appears online in the Annals of Neurology has found that excess belly fat may actually cause your brain to shrink and increase your dementia risk.
We already know [...]
A recent University of Florida study suggests that losing weight quickly, rather than gradually as you’ve heard before, at least in the first stages of your weight loss plan might be vital to dropping those pounds over the long term.
This is the type of weight loss that viewers see on the TV show [...]
Lest you think carrying waist fat around the middle is strictly an American problem, a recent UK poll finds that 97% of respondents were unaware of the link between weight at the middle and increased risk of health dangers (diabetes, heart disease and cancer), even though 71% said they had just such [...]
Just ten years ago, the World Health Organization called obesity the most visible, but neglected, public health problem in the world. Today guidelines out of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) determine who is considered obese or overweight based on body mass index, a measurement that puts height and weight in [...]
It’s hard to imagine exercise at work as helping you keep fit, after all, we spend hours at our desks, and there are usually plenty of calorie laden snacks about to keep you from suffering mid afternoon hunger pangs.
Still, a Mayo Clinic expert suggests that the office may, in fact, be an [...]
When you think seaweed, some imagine the beach, while others mouths begin to water at the idea of eating seaweed in a serving of sushi, surely the last thing on your mind is treatments for obesity. A team from Newcastle University is sharing research that could change all that.
It seems that seaweed, or [...]
Important, though hardly welcome news for middle aged women who are exercising but not losing weight. A new U.S. study of 34,000 women that appears in the Journal of the American Medical Association finds the secret of how to stay slim – an hour a day of moderate exercise is what you [...]
Theories that associate DNA to weight have just gotten a major boost due to the discovery by European researchers of a genetic variation that almost guarantees a person will be obese.
The variation in question appears in 7 out of every 1,000 severely obese people, and may also be linked to mental retardation [...]
Sunday, February 28, 2010
Men looking for a way to slim down at the waistline might have an added, though unexpected, weapon. Tea. A study presented at the First International Congress on Abdominal Obesity finds that men who drink over 2 cups of tea a day have slimmer waistlines than those who drink coffee or nothing at all.
It’s not [...]
Thursday, February 11, 2010
Experts have been saying this for a long time – lasting weight loss has to include both diet and exercise, and now some new research offers proof to the point.
Add regular exercise to your plans to cut calories and you’ll find the combination of these two healthy habits leads to better results – not just [...]
