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Multiple studies have shown that animals that consume large amounts of soy beans are likely to have a lower fertility rate. On the other hand, research regarding the impact of soy on humans revealed that the chemicals found in this plant have absolutely no effect on fertility. Now, a new study carried out at the Harv... |
24 July 2008
04:51 GMT |
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All of us with an interest in healthy eating can safely say that at the moment, we're facing a health information overload. Which is not necessarily a bad thing - on the contrary, especially since important information connected to various innovations and new research in the field of dieting and healthy eating c... |
25 June 2008
06:59 GMT |
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If any of you still believe that the whole "breakfast should be the biggest meal of the day" theory is false or outdated at best, think again: a recent study comes to confirm what has become the staple of countless weight loss diets in recent decades - namely the belief that a big breakfast followed by a moderately-s... |
18 June 2008
06:57 GMT |
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This is the third and final article on Dr. Servan-Schreiber and the principles of his anti-cancer diet. In the previous two posts, I was telling you about the basic principles behind his anti-cancer approach to lifestyle and eating and about the things he claims are extremely bad for our health. On that list he inclu... |
16 June 2008
09:51 GMT |
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The question of whether there really is such a thing as an anti-cancer diet has long been debated by everyone from scientists to adepts of an all-natural healthy lifestyle who firmly believe in the healing powers of natural products, herbs and other organic substances. Most of the times, the compromise in terms of wh... |
16 June 2008
08:34 GMT |
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It's hard to believe, but a few simple tests will help you confirm it: anyone can look a lot slimmer than they really are by using a few wardrobe tricks. This is not an encouragement to throw your healthy eating plan out the window and start relying on clothes to make you look slim.Remember that while clothes wo... |
13 June 2008
11:58 GMT |
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We all know by now that a diet rich in fast food meals and kebab takeaways, ice cream desserts two times a day and lots of sugary, fizzy drinks is bound to get anyone of us to pile on the pounds. However, the true mystery is that sometimes, we eat the right amounts and types of foods and we exercise regularly and sti... |
7 June 2008
05:35 GMT |
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As far as dieting goes, the French are probably one of the biggest lifestyle paradoxes around: they drink red wine regularly, have a high-fat diet and yet they have the lowest heart-attack rate in Europe and only 7% of the population is obese, compared to a staggering 23% in Britain, for example. The obvious question... |
2 June 2008
06:20 GMT |
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Most women living in modern societies feel the pressure associated with dieting, weight loss and keeping in shape. The truth is, aggressive advertising and contemporary beauty standards tell us that we have to be thin to be successful, which often prompts us to look at ourselves in the mirror very critically and crav... |
26 May 2008
07:56 GMT |
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Admit it - have you ever thought that apples and soup can actually go together? Well, it's time to reconsider all old prejudices you might have had and give apples a chance to make their way into your healthy, weight-conscious diet, by means of this delicious apple soup with potatoes and Brie cheese. It's a... |
19 May 2008
11:45 GMT |
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Don't let its name scare you - the three-apples-a-day diet involves a lot more than starving yourself by eating nothing else except three apples a day. This diet is in fact a long term weight loss solution developed by American dietitian going by the name of Tammi Flynn, who holds a Master's degree in Nutri... |
13 May 2008
10:56 GMT |
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Whenever we hear the words "diet" and "calories" in the same sentence, the first things that come to mind are a grueling struggle against hunger and that dazed feeling you're left with after you've been staring at your plate for far too long, trying to figure out exactly how many calories you have on your l... |
8 May 2008
09:46 GMT |
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Even if we're not all die-hard fans of Madonna's music or lifestyle, we can't help but look at her ultra-fit physique (minus the veiny hands, some would say) with a twinge of envy and wonder how she manages to keep herself so slim and yet so energetic. Some may argue that since she's such a versat... |
6 May 2008
04:38 GMT |
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Britney Spears has been in the news almost every day for the past year or so, ever since her previously picture-perfect life has taken a downward spiral and became the sometimes annoying, otherwise mildly entertaining circus we all know it to be. From a bitter divorce and a still-raging custody battle to a substance ... |
26 April 2008
03:13 GMT |
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Various researches have showed that a restrictive diet slows down the aging process. A new study carried out at the University of Washington and published in the Cell journal has taken a few further steps in explaining why that happens. The research made on yeast cells connected ribosomes, the protein-making organell... |
24 April 2008
04:22 GMT |
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As expected, urine differs in composition depending on what you eat or drink (that without even mentioning the way in which alcohol and coffee impact on it). Moreover, a new research carried out by a team led by Elaine Holmes, Professor of Chemical Biology at the Imperial College London (ICL) and published in the jou... |
22 April 2008
14:06 GMT |
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You pump thousands of vitamin pills into your body in order to live longer but, in fact, this only brings you one step closer to the verge of the grave. This is what the results of a meta-analysis of 67 studies made on 230,000 people are telling us.The study revealed not only that vitamin C does not have an apparent ... |
21 April 2008
04:14 GMT |
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You may look at the stars like J-Lo or Madonna and see how they manage to keep in good shape. Genetics may play a percentage on how we look, but beyond anything, it is about hard work. And specialists are attentive to the multi-million bottoms or thighs of the divas. Here are some advices given by them for keeping fi... |
18 April 2008
16:21 GMT |
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We could easily argue that Madonna's whole life is built around sex. Whether it's the singer's own sexuality, her not-so-private sex life or her public smooches with the likes of Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera, the singer has always found the ideal way of manipulating her image and her aura, up ... |
15 April 2008
10:42 GMT |
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Like mother, like son. What your mother ate while pregnant with you is reflected in how you look. So says a Brazilian team who published its research made on rats in the journal "Lipids in Health and Disease." Pregnant and lactating rat females nurtured on a diet of hydrogenated fat rich in trans fatty acids, during ... |
7 April 2008
14:06 GMT |
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Britney Spears lost 15 pounds in just four weeks. Now that's major celebrity magazine news - or would be - if it were true. The fact is, with the renewed positive public outlook on Brit and the prospect of a Spears comeback not as remote as it was a couple of months ago, everybody has been jumping on the "reform... |
3 April 2008
06:12 GMT |
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Mexican men know the secret of the chili. It's about folate, a vitamin abundant in liver, leafy green vegetables, citrus fruits, sunflower seeds and legumes (beans and their relatives). It may sound more familiar to you that women of child-bearing age must have proper levels of folate (vitamin B9) in their diet ... |
20 March 2008
14:06 GMT |
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Guinness World Records registered the Mexican Manuel Uribe as the world's fattest human: he had reached 560 kilos (1,244 pounds) in weight.Uribe, who lives in Monterrey (northern Mexico), has proudly announced Tuesday that he had dropped 230 kilograms (570 pounds), almost half his original weight, much rapidly t... |
14 February 2008
04:34 GMT |
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The Big Mac combination may be an insidious caloric bomb loaded with starches and oils, but a new research of the plants that people around the world eat has found it, if you can believe this, as a symbol of a varied diet brought by globalization!The team from the University of Calgary and Stellenbosch University in ... |
8 February 2008
06:00 GMT |
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Are you turned on by long-legged women? In this case, you really prefer healthier women. A complex British research, made at the Bristol University and published in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, has found that women with shorter legs display a higher vulnerability to liver disease. The study was c... |
19 December 2007
04:35 GMT |
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Remember that hot blonde bombshell, Sarah Harding? That's right - one of the hottest babes around and member of Girls Aloud, a merry gang of girls famous for their impressive figures and their music (not necessarily in that order), highly appreciated in the UK and not only over the past years. Well, Sarah has go... |
10 December 2007
05:39 GMT |
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The rotation diet is based on introducing in your daily menu various food categories every 4 days. The types of food are divided into four categories and into biological families. Each day you should eat food belonging to the same family or distinct families and groups, but you should not eat that again before four d... |
17 November 2007
06:56 GMT |
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Despite the fact that everybody believes it's easier to lose weight if you avoid eating meat and fish, because of the satiating power of the animal proteins, it is sure that ovo-lacto-vegetarian slimming can be as much or more effective than carnivorous diet. This diet allows the consume of a great variety and q... |
16 November 2007
15:51 GMT |
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The first rule to get slim is to have a varied and balanced diet, and to keep the body healthy physically and mentally. Eating should be a pleasant act satisfying the taste and other senses. Always choose the diet that is closer to your culinary preferences. Practice sports and do not propose yourself surrealist goal... |
16 November 2007
14:06 GMT |
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No sex, alcohol and other risk factors have been proven to cause a rapid development in prostate cancer, the ultimate blow that can 'ruin' a man's sex life. Too few recover after surgery without remaining impotent. Now, a research led at Duke Prostate Center and published in the online journal Prostate... |
14 November 2007
06:01 GMT |
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Sun lovers and cheese eaters got it: they will live longer than others. A new research published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition found that vitamin D could act against aging and inflammation. The study made by a British-American team on over 2,100 female twin pairs aged 19-79 showed that higher vitamin ... |
9 November 2007
05:31 GMT |
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November is quickly moving on, and there's less than a month until the Spice Girls' reunion tour is set to kick off in Vancouver, Canada. It's somewhat natural, in this case, to see the girls come under more and more media attention in the past weeks, but the sad part is that - if we take a close look ... |
7 November 2007
06:30 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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Annually, about 500,000 women die of causes related to pregnancy and over 60 million women suffer from severe complications during pregnancy. 30 % of them will have lesions and infections for the rest of their life. Many women in the third world are trapped in a vicious circle of pregnancies, births and lack of care,... |
6 October 2007
05:50 GMT |
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The gods asked for their sacrifice in the Andes mountains, and now the Inca children represent one of the best naturally cold preserved mummies. DNA and isotope analyses made by a team led by Andrew Wilson of the University of Bradford in England on the hair samples taken from 4 Inca children mummies and small bags a... |
2 October 2007
05:11 GMT |
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The low-carbohydrate diets like the Atkins or the South Beach Diet may let you still eat and lose a great deal of weight in a short time, but there are dangers lurking, like regaining faster weight after giving up the diet and gout. Now, another tricky effect has been found: these diets make you dumber!A low-carbohyd... |
1 October 2007
07:16 GMT |
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Hair loss is more than a physical issue. For many people, it is a great fatality that even changes their character. They turn more introverted, avoid relations with the others, get low self esteem, and even depression. Men will think that the others see them as being less attractive and sometimes even less virile (pa... |
26 September 2007
14:07 GMT |
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People do many stupid things just to look thin. A new research found that teenage girls who are dieting are two times more prone to start smoking regularly as girls who are not dieting.The study made on 7,795 adolescents found that with boys, cigarette availability rather than weight loss is the main factor determini... |
7 September 2007
03:27 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
04:03 GMT |
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The western diets are very tricky: besides the health problems they produce (like heart, liver or kidney issues, or gout), they have also the yo-yo effect: subjects regain quickly the lost weight when they stop the diet, and even gain more. Less stress, more physical exercise and a healthy life style could help. The ... |
18 August 2007
07:03 GMT |
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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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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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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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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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It seems that in the case of women, fertility is not just an innate quality but also one adjusted by life conditions in early life. This conclusion was reached by a team at University College London which analyzed hormone levels in women who migrated to the UK from Bangladesh at various life stages. The researchers f... |
21 May 2007
04:37 GMT |
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Perhaps the biggest fear of those that quit smoking is that they might gain weight. But the hardest thing is the quitting process: it requires on average three to four attempts. But paying attention to what and when you eat could help you maintain the line. The withdrawal symptoms, including irritability, low moods, ... |
15 May 2007
19:11 GMT |
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Bringing on food means a short happy life. But if you want to live longer, you must cut off from your daily food intake: look at those Okinawa people ... But why eating less prolongs life is still a question without any answer for the researchers. Yet, a step closer towards solving the mystery could have been made b... |
4 May 2007
18:06 GMT |
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The mighty early human hunters could have relied on roots and tubers when meat or fruit were out of their reach, at least during the dry season. When a team investigated in 1999 the teeth of two ancestral hominids, Australopithecus aferensis and Paranthropus (Australopithecus) robustus, which lived in Eastern/Souther... |
2 May 2007
04:55 GMT |
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The source of the youngness is not located in Shangri-La, the mythical place on Himalaya where people never got old. The heaven of longevity is encountered in the Japanese island of Okinawa, which, besides detaining the record of longevity and centenaries of the world, is the only place on the planet where 80-90 year... |
28 April 2007
07:36 GMT |
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You know that diet beverages have that artificial chemical disgusting taste that feels bad in your mouth. Of course, it comes from the chemicals (read sweeteners) they put in. Is it so?A new research made at the University of Illinois reveals that, in fact, the bad taste of the light beverages is not given by the ad... |
28 April 2007
05:12 GMT |
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