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The beauties of Rubens could have been sent to the Association of Anonymous Obese. And even Marylin Monroe would be a Miss Piggy compared to current fashion models. But regardless of race, culture and time, a relatively slim waist is that part of the woman body which has triggered the most and continuous interest in ... |
3 November 2007
05:08 GMT |
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"You snooze, you lose". Is that so? All vertebrates sleep, from fish to mammals, and birds even take naps while flying! Even some invertebrates, like insects, sleep. An animal deprived of sleep dies sooner than if it lacks food, because sleep is an imperative metabolic need.The stress induced by the urban life impair... |
31 October 2007
15:06 GMT |
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Would you like to pig out, not to work and still be thin? Good news: this could happen! A new research made in lab mice which spent 15 minutes daily on a vibrating platform found that they grew 28 % less fatty tissue than the group of control animals.But do not be fooled by waistband-jiggling vibration belts. The pla... |
25 October 2007
04:26 GMT |
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1.Cetaceans (whales and dolphins) appeared 50 million years ago (the oldest known whale being Pakicetus), having (as revealed by DNA) a common origin with the hippopotamus (!). 40 million years ago whales were divided into baleen whales and toothed whales. The oldest known baleen whale is Mamalodon (that lived 25 mi... |
17 October 2007
16:26 GMT |
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It is the fifth killer type of cancer for women, being diagnosed in 20,000 people annually in US alone, and 15,000 die of it in the same period. Women have 2 % chances of getting this cancer throughout their life. Moreover, the ovarian cancer is difficult detect in its early stages, when chances of being cured are hi... |
10 October 2007
05:50 GMT |
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Those who wake up early ... get fat! A new study reveals that children who don't sleep enough are more prone to grow obese when adults. It appears that less sleep impedes the body from synthesizing enough amounts of a hormone that inhibits the appetite. The Australian researchers at the University of Queensland ... |
24 September 2007
02:51 GMT |
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It may already sound weird for you when you hear about people whose diet is based on camel or reindeer or yak milk and the resulting diary products, but what about moose milk? A moose may be familiar to you if you live in a northern area, but more as stew and barbecue, not in your banana shake. In fact, people have b... |
21 September 2007
03:43 GMT |
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Most jobs contribute to our sedentary life, and this combined to a disordered feeding pattern, will make you fat. In fact, 50 % of the employees gain weight while at work. 20 % of them put on some extra 5 kilograms (12 pounds), and 10 % some 9 kilograms (20 pounds). The daily program won't let you go to the gym ... |
15 September 2007
08:49 GMT |
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A recent research has showed that skinny people can have a lot of visceral fat, the kind that is stored inside the abdomen, and which is the most dangerous, causing diabetes and other diseases. In 2005, Katherine M. Flegal, a researcher at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, made a statistical analysis of... |
15 September 2007
04:18 GMT |
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The issue is not all about being a big boy only. You can be big, fat and healthy, if you practice sports and an obese (inside) skinny couch potato. The question is not just "how much" but also "where".A recent research has shown that different ethnic groups tend to store fat exactly where it does induce more harm. Pe... |
3 September 2007
05:36 GMT |
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If a babe does not match your aesthetic principles, don't blame her for that, but put it on the play between her brain and her sexual hormones. And indeed, menopause can make women fat.A new research managed to solve how hormonal change during menopause could provoke higher appetite and weight gain in aging wome... |
31 August 2007
03:29 GMT |
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Quality food is more expensive, this is a fact. And quality food means a higher nutritive value (proteins, minerals and vitamins), while the cheap junk food is rich in starches and oils, caloric bombs that are deposited in abundant fatty layers. Now, a new research at the University of Washington showed a correlation... |
31 August 2007
02:45 GMT |
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Finally some Tekken 6 news. I was beginning to think Namco was dropping the PS3 exclusive. So what if the latest Tekken 6 news says there's a new, overweight character ridiculously named Bob, featuring the worst background in the history of the series' characters? At least we're reminded that the PS3 i... |
30 August 2007
11:30 GMT |
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The knife cannot solve everything and it is not the elixir of youth. A healthy life style is much cheaper and more effective. Bad habits make you grow old too soon. These, however, are the worst:1. Stress. People who are not able to get rid of it get older earlier. It decreases our immunity (thus infection resistance... |
22 August 2007
13:36 GMT |
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If you think you can help your little child become a fashion model, that's very risky. A new research showed that parents who eliminate all types of fats from their children's alimentation could cause serious health issues for their kids. It is well known fact that some amount of 'good' fats, like... |
20 August 2007
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A big bone means more than just a big hunk. And in fact, the way you look is shaped by your bones more than you would have thought. We already know that bones produce red and white blood cells, store calcium and help control blood pH. But that's more on the story: a new research shows that bones release a protei... |
10 August 2007
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It's cleat that breasts are rather a sexual 'mark' than having a clear breastfeeding purpose in humans. Because otherwise it's hard to explain 300,000 breast augmentations and reconstructions performed in the US only in 2006, a triple number compared to 1997: any woman wants to feel attractive. Bu... |
6 August 2007
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What do doctors say? In order to lose weight a personalized diet is necessary (developed by an endocrinologist or a nutritional doctor) and also a lot of physical exercise. The nutritional advisor can cost you $ 250 per hour. You go to the restaurant with the personal advisor that will suggest you a turkey scallop wi... |
4 August 2007
06:39 GMT |
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The way you look is a combination of genetics, diet and sports. When all three are not right, the result is lousy. Giving up the habit of eating junk food and starting practicing sports is the nightmare of any couch potato. Here comes the salvation: some American doctors say a new technique called lipodissolve is a ... |
27 July 2007
14:11 GMT |
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Junk food is considered to be the cause for the fat epidemics: in just 25 years, the number of obese people boomed in the US from 15 % to 33 %. But nobody sticks fatty food in your mouth. At least not directly. However, mentally this happens quite often. And the main culprits are your obese friends. They can make you... |
26 July 2007
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For a self conscious couch potato, light variant of the sodas (the so-called sugar-free types) would be the solution against the sumo belly and all its accompanying metabolic syndrome issues, like diabetes and cardiovascular disease, high blood pressure, elevated levels of the blood triglycerides (saturated fats) and... |
24 July 2007
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Junk food produces dangerous effects on the people living in the US. At the current weight gain tendency, Rubensian models will be the norm by 2015, with 75 % of U.S. adults being overweight and 41% obese, warned a recent Johns Hopkins University meta-analysis released on Wednesday. The research team investigated 20... |
23 July 2007
14:06 GMT |
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The fact that obese people have fertility problems is a well-known fact. Obesity raises the risk for C-Section, impedes breastfeeding, while these children are more prone to high birth weight and childhood obesity and chronic disease. More than half of the overweight and obese women get excessive weight during pregna... |
23 July 2007
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Guinness World Records is going to register him. Mexican Manuel Uribe had reached 560 kilos (1,244 pounds) weight but has already lost 200 kilos (444 pounds) because of the Zone diet. Uribe wants to also break the record for drastic slimming. "I'm happy to be included in the Guinness World Records as the fattest... |
21 July 2007
04:32 GMT |
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"We eat for living, not live for eating". Indeed, we need food to ensure our daily survival, health and functioning. But there are, this is what psychologists say, at least other six reasons that make us get fatter and fatter. Fortunately, knowing and admitting them helps us in turning them ineffective. 1.Individuals... |
20 July 2007
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Big bellies have been seen for a long time now as the main cause for the metabolic syndrome, a group of conditions leading to heart attack: prediabetes, diabetes, high blood pressure, and high cholesterol. By using new powerful imaging technologies, a team of Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) at Yale University ... |
18 July 2007
07:32 GMT |
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In most people's opinion, Michael Moore is both controversial and talented. Nowadays, everyone seems to either hate him or adore his works, or at least that was the case a few years ago. All in all, his political satires and painful truths seem to get a little old for the public, as is his constant hunt for conv... |
13 July 2007
09:18 GMT |
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Any couch potato with high self-esteem will say his/her piggy shape is because he/she does not go to the gym. And the big muscles are just the result of hard effort and potentially everybody could display them if trained. Our body shape is the result of the combination of three tissues: muscular, bony and fatty. But ... |
4 July 2007
11:51 GMT |
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You may believe that you eat double because of the stress and you store a double quantity of fat. That's right, except for a little detail: you store four times more fat! That's because stress makes you not only eat more, but also store more from the same food amount, as revealed by a team from the Georgeto... |
2 July 2007
14:31 GMT |
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Camels are animals with a history. Some say that dromedary or Arabian camel (with one hump) could have been domesticated in southern Arabia between 6,000 to 3,400 years ago, while the larger and slower Bactrian camel (with two humps) in Central Asia about 3,500 years ago. In the ninth century BC, dromedaries were use... |
22 June 2007
15:31 GMT |
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Summer has come, and - oops?! - you have come out of the winter wrapped in "rolls" of fat. You push your body into diet and exercise to burn out all the blubber. Now, Danish researchers are trying to explain how fat oxidation occurs during exercise and physical activity. Their investigations show fat oxidation during... |
20 June 2007
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The orange skin that increases with each passing year is a sign of aging. If you're a woman, you have 90 % more probabilities to have cellulite than a man has. This is because cellulite is the product of a hormonal cocktail, fat, bad circulation, liquid retention, genetics and lifestyle. Depending on the predomi... |
18 June 2007
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No sugar food, no body fat. This is the principle of the high-fat, low-carbohydrate Atkins diet. But how does this work?Two new researches link this to a hormone that regulates fat burning when the body turns from carbohydrates to its own fat reserves for getting energy, a discovery crucial for treating metabolism co... |
7 June 2007
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It's easy to see on a product pack its nutritional content, but can you know this when it's about meat? And especially the fat content?Now, New Zealand food industry use a breakthrough x-ray based technology to ensure that beef exported to make American beefburgers obeys the US fat content regulations. Thes... |
4 June 2007
03:35 GMT |
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It seems that what you mustn't eat when you try to lose weight is linked to your insulin levels. This is the conclusion of a research made on 73 obese young adults. "A major question in the field of obesity is, why can some people do well on conventional weight-loss diets, while others on the very same diets do ... |
28 May 2007
04:54 GMT |
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Bacteria in your guts are not just simple guests eating on your leftovers. Beside digestive conditions, these bugs induce more severe problems, like obesity and now they were found to influence how fat is digested and deposited in the liver. An imbalanced gut flora can affect this metabolic path and trigger diseases.... |
25 May 2007
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Could the natural way of your sleep and how much you sleep influence the way you look?It seems that they do, as researchers have discovered that a gene controlling the mammalian circadian clock seems to be implied in weight gain from fat-rich diets. Researchers led by Joseph Besharse of the Medical College of Wiscons... |
15 May 2007
04:46 GMT |
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You ingest a peanut and get fat while the skinny dude in front of you eats five hamburgers and stays just as slim as always...Well, I don't know if it's really "a peanut" that you eat, since quite often you fell like "devastating" a bag of potato chips or a huge chocolate bar and not an apple or an orange. ... |
12 May 2007
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If you think skinny means healthy, you're wrong. Many experts now believe that the internal fat around vital organs like the heart, liver or pancreas, which cannot be seen, is more dangerous than the obvious external fat that stores underneath the skin. "Being thin doesn't automatically mean you're not... |
11 May 2007
09:07 GMT |
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The beautiful blond women of Sweden are facing a huge problem: they are getting increasingly fatter. Swedish researchers are puzzled by an unusual situation: Swedish little girls are more predisposed to obesity than little boys are. A recent investigation made by a team at Sweden's Uppsala University revealed th... |
10 May 2007
06:42 GMT |
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We live in an era of obese children, in which a happy child is that one taken out weekly (at least) to the McDonald's. Not to mention what a disaster would be a birthday party not celebrated there... All this, while fast food chains mock on their clients with the worst food content...At an international obesity... |
24 April 2007
05:20 GMT |
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Fat food not only makes you look like a potato and ruins your health (from heart to vessel, brain, gut, liver and so on) but even pushes up your stress level. This is the result of a research made at the University of Calgary. The researchers discovered that even just one, high-fat meal increases you predisposition... |
23 April 2007
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Animal power comes with a new meaning as it stumbles with technology. And pigs will save the planet with in energy crisis. Oil company ConocoPhillips will collaborate with Tyson Foods, world's biggest meat producer, to produce bio-diesel from pork fat, but also cattle and chicken fat. This renewable fuel is thou... |
20 April 2007
06:58 GMT |
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With one more bite you have increased your waist size, while the skinny prick beside you engulfs hamburger after hamburger, ice-cream after ice-cream, and nothing... For long, a genetic component of the issue has been suspected, but now scientists come with the clearest evidence yet between genes and obesity, explai... |
19 April 2007
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No Cola or no bacon?Hard to say ...Staying out of junk food is the hardest drudgery. A team at Stanford University Medical School made a year-long research comparing four popular diets, from low-carb to low-fat, and the Atkins resulted to be the best. Thus, in the end, meat lovers laugh at vegetarians. The research i... |
12 April 2007
08:54 GMT |
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Less candies won't make you look like Kate Moss. Less food would better do ... Or at least less caloric ...A new complex research at the Jean Mayer US Department of Agriculture Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging (USDA HNRCA) at Tufts University discovered that calorie-restricted diets varying substantially... |
10 April 2007
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Nutrition is nowadays a global concern. Apart from the issues regarding the poverty in third world countries and the struggle to end world hunger, food has become much of a problem for most high-developed countries, as they face problems with obesity. While others are desperate for food, an overwhelming percent of pe... |
4 April 2007
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A new Australian research on schoolchildren who consume fruit juices and fruit drinks showed they are more prone to be overweight or obese than those who don't. The Deakin researchers investigated a sample of 2184 children, 4 to 12 years old from the Barwon South Western region. The team discovered that children... |
30 March 2007
06:28 GMT |
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What you eat may be biased by what you earn, personal opinions and practices. But a team at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health has shown that race and gender also affect people's food choices. All these factors are also influenced by environmental factors, like reliance on fast food, food adver... |
27 March 2007
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Humans and mammals possess two types of fatty tissue: white and brown. The white fat tissue is what we see as "fat", that influences body shape and most people are bothered about. The brown tissue, on the other hand, is a fat tissue whose role is that of burning fat, so that the energy from fats is released as heat i... |
15 March 2007
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