Is Stress Making You Fat?
The simple stress of everyday living could be the reason you’re carrying more weight than you should be. Coupled with a vigorous diet and exercise program, stress could be [...]
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Top 6 Weight Loss Mistakes
You think you eat right and stay active, but the pounds just don’t come off — or at least not as fast as you’d like them to. If the situation sounds familiar, [...]
Test Your Genes to Find Your Best Diet
Your genes can help tell you what to eat and influence how diet affects your health. Variants in some of our genes determine how we metabolize and utilize nutrients, a field [...]
9 Healthy Snacks That Prevent Overeating
Some experts say the whole concept of “healthy snacking” is an oxymoron. The human body, they argue, wasn’t built to accommodate the average American’s habit of [...]
Briefly Standing, or Being Active, Reduces Blood Sugar Across the Day
(Reuters Health) – For obese people who sit for most of the day, replacing some sitting time with standing, slow walking or slow cycling reduces average blood sugar [...]
How Not to Gain Weight on Vacation
Are extra pounds an inevitable consequence of a fun-filled vacation? They don’t have to be, according to Harley Pasternak, an exercise physiologist, nutritionist and [...]
Frequent Nut Consumption Associated with Less Inflammation
In a study of more than 5,000 people, investigators from Brigham and Women’s Hospital have found that greater intake of nuts was associated with lower levels of [...]
Exercise Results in Larger Brain Size and Lowered Dementia Risk
Using the landmark Framingham Heart Study to assess how physical activity affects the size of the brain and one’s risk for developing dementia, UCLA researchers found [...]
The 3 Body Types—and How They Affect Your Weight Loss
Most of us can slot our overall build into one of three general categories, or somatotypes, recognizing that there are a wide variety of shapes and sizes even within these [...]
8 Surprising Effects of Obesity
By now you’ve probably heard that obesity increases the risk of heart disease and diabetes. But you might not know that the extra weight can have other serious health [...]
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