PH Miracle Diet Basics
(Submitted by: Lisa Sequera)
The pH Miracle diet is the newest phenomenon to strike the dieting world. Health experts have noticed that popular diets seem to go in waves. While the 90s were marked by the low-fat diet craze, the last six to seven years have been focused on ... Read article
Dieting - 3 Easy Tips That Will Ensure The Success of Your Diet Goals
(Submitted by: James Hegarty)
There is no end to the amount of people who want to loose weight at any given time. It is a real desire among people because it is so easy to add those extra pounds. While it may be easy to add on that extra weight it much harder to get rid of. ... Read article
Important Information About a Green Tea Diet Plan
(Submitted by: Morgan Buchanan)
Everyone keeps telling us that green tea is one of those products that is really good for us. We often start to glaze over and lose interest since we just dont know why this is the case and they go into a long scientific spiel.Fairly ... Read article
The Three Day Diet - How Does It Work?
(Submitted by: Dean Iggo)
The come in several numbers and in different thoughts. The three day diet. It is dieters favorite term, their perfect option before a big event (i.e; dance, wedding, special event) and it is the easy way out of the usual standard of hard core ... Read article
The Atkins Diet Can Work for You - Here''s How
(Submitted by: Andy Bowen)
If you don't know what the Atkins Diet is, where have you been for the last 10 years? The Atkins Diet is a low carb diet developed over twenty years ago by Dr Robert Atkins, an American heart specialist. It is one of the most popular low carb ... Read article
Diet Horoscope - An Easy Diet Plan By Zodiac Signs
(Submitted by: Elaine Fung)
Diet Weight Loss program which Use Horoscope Zodiac Signs to Tell the Best Times to Lose the Most Weight with the Least EffortAstrologers themselves found that the planets, sun and moon exert certain physical stresses on the earth. ... Read article
What You Need To Know When Dieting
(Submitted by: David Fishman)
There is no better way to lose weight than to eat right and exercise regularly. Weight loss pills are not a good solution to the overweight problem, nor are they proposed as replacement for the conventional weight loss and management methods such ... Read article
Gout Diet
(Submitted by: Colleen Redman)
Can diet alone cure gout? It would seem so, since the cause of gout is related to faulty purine metabolism, then it would seem logical that cutting down, or out altogether foods high in purines, gout would be eliminated.The pain of gout ... Read article
What You Should Know Before Starting A Weight Loss Diet Plan
(Submitted by: Jed Baguio)
Before looking for weight loss diet plan. These tips that might help you take off a few pounds in a healthy way:- Consult a physician? A dietician can formulate a right weight loss diet plan for your health condition.- Water therapy ... Read article
Are You On A Diet?
(Submitted by: Beverley Clement)
You might tell me that is obvious I am overweight and need to lose the excess weight. Ah! But wait have you ever been on a diet before?I can imagine many of you saying yes I have been on and off diets for so long I cant remember when I ... Read article
Modern Imaging Unravels Causes Of Addictive Behaviour - A Possible Basis For New Therapies?
What can radiology contribute to the treatment of obesity (adipositas)? Evidently a great deal, as was made clear at the European Congress of Radiology (ECR 2007) at Austria Center Vienna. [click link for full article]
Obesity's Connection To Cardiovascular Disease Remains Poorly Understood
Obesity rates have escalated dramatically in the last several decades and the condition negatively affects health, but its connection to conditions such as cardiovascular disease (CVD) is complex and not fully understood. In the March issue of the Journal of Investigative Medicine experts say more research is needed to discover the links between obesity and CVD, with particular attention to biological differences between women and men. [click link for full article]
High BMI Associated With Lower Likelihood Of Being Discharged Home After Hospitalization For Stroke
Individuals with a higher body mass index (BMI) tend are less likely to be discharged directly home after hospitalization for an ischemic stroke, according to a report in the March issue of Archives of Neurology, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. An ischemic stroke occurs when the flow of blood to a part of the brain is blocked or reduced and sufficient amounts of oxygen cannot be delivered to brain tissue. [click link for full article]
Obesity At The Time Of Prostate-Cancer Diagnosis Dramatically Increases The Risk Of Dying From The Disease
Obese men who are diagnosed with prostate cancer have more than two-and-a-half times the risk of dying from the disease as compared to men of normal weight at the time of diagnosis, according to a study by researchers at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. The findings by senior author Alan Kristal, Dr.P.H., and colleagues appear online and will be published in the March 15 print edition of the journal Cancer. [click link for full article]
Splenda Buys Hundreds of Anti-Splenda Domains
The makers of Splenda have been busy. Busy enough to purchase over 211 domain names - such as SplendaKills.com, SplendaPoison.com, SplendaVictims.com. It is an elaborate and insidious ploy to prevent any negative information being written on-line....
Fruit Juice: Making Kids Fat?
Research from Australia has concluded that children who drink 2 cups of fruit juice or fruit drinks per day were more likely to be overweight or obese than those who did not. It seems that the more fruit juice consumed, the more chance of being overweight: "Children who drank more than three glasses of soft drink - three quarters...
Belly Fat May Drive Inflammatory Processes Associated With Disease
As scientists learn more about the key role of inflammation in diabetes, heart disease and other disorders, new research from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis suggests that fat in the belly may be an important promoter of that inflammation.Excess fat is known to be associated with disease, but now the researchers have confirmed that fat cells inside the abdomen are secreting molecules that increase inflammation. [click link for full article]
Potential Link Between Obesity And Environmental Chemicals
A team of researchers at the University of New Hampshire is investigating whether the increasing ubiquity of chemical flame retardants found in foam furniture, carpeting, microwaves and computers might be related to the climbing rate of obesity in the United States. [click link for full article]
In Obesity, Brain Becomes 'Unaware' Of Fat
Critical portions of the brain in those who are obese don't really know they are overweight, researchers have reported in the March issue of the journal Cell Metabolism, published by Cell Press. These findings in obese mice show that a sensor in the brain that normally detects a critical fat hormone - causing a cascade of events that keeps energy balance in check - fails to engage. Meanwhile, the rest of the metabolic pathway remains ready to respond. [click link for full article]
Plagued By Diet Disasters? A Visit To A Registered Dietician Could Help
Studies indicate more than one-third of adults are trying to lose weight, but few have long-term success. Many can't stick to diets and exercise routines and struggle to stay afloat in a sea of popular diets, fitness programs and foods with "healthy" claims.But weight-loss seekers have someone to turn to. [click link for full article]