Why Sports Drinks Don’t Improve Performance
From eight glasses of water a day to protein shakes, we’re bombarded with messages about we should drink and when, especially during exercise. But these drinking dogmas are [...]
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How Being Overweight May Affect Memory
Want to stay sharp well into old age? Keep an eye on your waistline, suggests a recent study from the University of Arizona. Having a higher body mass index (BMI) can [...]
Americans Blame Obesity on Willpower, Despite Evidence It’s Genetic
Americans believe that obesity is the biggest health threat in the nation today — bigger even than cancer. But though scientific research shows that diet and exercise are [...]
Can Eating Too Much Sugar Cause Type 2 Diabetes?
Olivia Yang was stunned when she learned she had type 2 diabetes six years ago, when she was 19. Her doctor was shocked, too. In fact, her physician tested her twice to be [...]
For Weight Loss, Water Beats Diet Soda
Diet sodas may undermine weight loss efforts, a new study suggests. Researchers put 81 overweight women with Type 2 diabetes on the same weight-control diet, except that half [...]
Fasting with Food
Earlier this year, I recommended intermittent fasting as a way of calming down our needy personalities. Jeremi, one of my readers and a PR executive from New York, was kind [...]
Why Cashew Milk Is Taking Over the Dairy Aisle
To spot a trend in 2016, all you have to do is see what’s happening on Pinterest. Case in point: The site has seen a 40 percent jump in users pinning, sharing, and [...]
5 Reasons to Drink Coffee for a Fit Body
Coffee is an Effective Pre-Workout Drink Look no further than your pantry or local coffee shop for an all natural stimulant and effective pre-workout drink. Studies have [...]
This Is Probably the Least You’ll Weigh All Year
Congratulations. If you are anything like the Americans in a study by a Cornell University professor, your weight will reach an annual low this week or the next. But don’t [...]
How Autophagy Could Lead to a Cure For Cancer & Spell the End For Diabetes
The 2016 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine recently went to Yoshinori Ohsumi for his discoveries into the mechanisms of autophagy. Also known as [...]
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