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Fact: Mother’s High-fat Diet Contributes To Obesity In Her Children
New research published online in The FASEB Journal suggests that pregnant women should think twice about high-fat foods. In a study from the University of... read more »
Middle School Freshens Up Students’ Diets With Fruits, Vegetables & Other Healthy Food
Last year, Elvis Cherry, a seventh-grade science teacher at H.G. Hill Middle School, plucked a carrot from the garden he grows outside of his classroom and popped... read more »
Low-Salt Diet May Lower Blood Pressure
Salt is essential not only to life, but to good health. The body’s salt:water ratio is critical to metabolism, and salt maintains the electrolyte balance inside... read more »
Want Looonger life? Eat a good diet and exercise
It seems all too simple, doesn’t it? Eat a healthy diet and exercise for a longer life. Although it may seem like textbook advice, a new report by the San... read more »
Hormone research seeks to mimic weight-loss surgery
WEIGHT-LOSS surgery is successful because it permanently changes hormone levels, boosting the “I am full” hormone and reducing the “I am hungry”... read more »
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Anticancer Diet by David Servan-Schreiber
By David Servan-Schreiber, MD, PhD, Author of Anticancer: A New Way of Life Diet is one of the major risk factors for cancer in Western societies. But it’s... read more »
Older People Who Diet Without Exercising Lose Valuable Muscle Mass
A group of sedentary and overweight older people placed on a four-month exercise program not only became more fit, but burned off more fat, compared to older sedentary... read more »
The Perfect Diet
Every so often a new diet is touted as the secret to good health, rapid weight loss and flatter abs. The truth is, however, the perfect diet is out there – a... read more »
The Atkins Diet is back… and this time it lets you eat bread and pasta
A few years ago, we couldn’t get enough of the Atkins Diet. Disciples filled up on red meat and cheese – and still lost weight. But following health scares,... read more »
Zone Diet Helps Heaviest Man Loose Over 1:3 Of His Weight
Manuel Uribe has recorded some success with losing weight with Zone Diet The world’s heaviest man a 43-year-old man from Mexico, is the heaviest people in... read more »
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American Dietetic Association Releases 2008 Nutrition Trends Survey
Increasing numbers of American adults are aware of the importance of nutrition and physical activity and are taking steps to eat a healthy diet and engage in exercise,... read more »
Which Diet Works Best?
Raw food? Weight Watchers? South Beach? Eating real food (whole grains, vegetables, lean protein) at regular intervals? If diet indecision has you still eating... read more »
10 Ways to Eliminate Sugar In Your Diet
How much sugar you eat every day? Do you know which foods turn to sugar in your digestive system? The main reason for diabetes setting in after age 40 is a direct... read more »
Forbes: How To Choose A Diet That Works
Americans are giving up on diets. While weight-loss programs and products are still an estimated $58 billion industry, the number of people dieting is dropping,... read more »
How to keep your blood pressure in check
Question: Can I ever stop taking medicine for high blood pressure to see if diet and lifestyle changes have brought my blood pressure back to normal? Answer: Hypertension... read more »
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Fiona McCade: Over-egging the crash diet
My husband has had his kilt since he was at university. Like all good kilts, the waist fastening allows plenty of room for growth, but not, however, quite as much... read more »
Food Writer Defends Goodness of Fat
It takes a contrarian to defend the goodness of fat at a time when obesity has turned into a global epidemic. In her new cookbook, “Fat: An Appreciation of... read more »
Hannah: Diary Of A Diet
IN front of me there is a piece of paper with 12 smoking guns on. At the top of the page are the words, «Eating triggers». Under each picture, and within... read more »
New Diet Books Put To The Test
We asked members of the Times Health Club to try out the current crop of new diet books. Here’s their verdict ANNIE L, 33, ESSEX Dieting Makes You Fat by Geoffrey... read more »
Celebrity Diet Secrets: Republican National Convention edition
Sarah Palin’s caribou diet Republican party vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin, who is also the governor of Alaska, revealed what sounds like a pretty... read more »
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