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Specialists commonly issue warnings about the high intake of fatty foods that can, and will ultimately lead to severe health and weight issues. The latest research in this sense comes to show that, indeed, where fat intake is concerned, most people have already consumed more fat than they need in a lifetime by the ti... |
28 April 2009
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As a rule, when working out, women usually focus on the parts of their body that they know they have problems with, like the back of the legs, where cellulite is more visible, the ab and the arms. Because of this, the so-called muffin top is somewhat neglected – but is not impossible to rid ourselves ... |
21 April 2009
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Following the intellectual property legal dispute between TomTom and Microsoft, the Linux Foundation, through the voice of Jim Zemlin, its executive director, opined that alternatives, even open-source equivalents to the Redmond company's FAT, enabled developers to renounce of using the proprietary file manageme... |
2 April 2009
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Crunches, diets and diet pills on their own cannot guarantee a flat belly, health experts and trainers have repeatedly warned. The secret to losing abdominal fat lies within finding the perfect combination of dieting and working out and, as a new study points out, in eating certain foods. Below are some of those that... |
31 March 2009
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All women striving to achieve a stick-thin figure can now stop torturing themselves with all kinds of diets and workout regimes. A new study has revealed, as reported by Fox news, that women with a pear-shaped figure, the likes of which singers Jennifer Lopez and Beyonce have made famous, are healthier than those wit... |
8 January 2009
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Mac OS X software developer danholt4mac has announced its acquiring Calories from its original makers, NSObjects. danholt4mac has an impressive portfolio of OS X apps, but apparently it wasn't complete without NSObjects' journaling app for daily nutrition activities.Calories will be developed from now on by... |
5 November 2008
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Partitioning your hard drive in order to accommodate all the stored files in an organized manner is definitely not a daily task for any user. The truth is that most of them generally do this operation at each acquisition of a hard drive, and then forget about it. This is normal behavior considering that the... |
30 September 2008
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Wii Fit battles against Grand Theft Auto IV in many countries for the No. 1 best seller spot: I say that just to let you know how big Wii Fit is (no pun intended). Now, even though most of us are very happy with the game, the balance board and the illusion that it will turn them into thin, healthy, shiny happy people... |
30 May 2008
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It seems that Nintendo's Wii Fit can be wrong every now and them and, what is even more disturbing for many people, it has adverse effects on users. At least that's the result of a young ten year-old girl who used the Wii Fit which told her that she was fat. Now, it wouldn't necessarily be a problem, s... |
7 May 2008
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We are told that an increased Body Mass Index (BMI) makes us prone to a large array of diseases. But, as it turns out, fat located under the skin, especially on the buttocks, seems to actually decrease the chances of developing type 2 diabetes, as signaled by a new research published in the Cell Metabolism journal an... |
7 May 2008
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Whether you look like Peter Doherty or Michael Moore, there is a fixed number of fat cells in your body since adolescence, as revealed by a new research published in the journal Nature and carried out at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden.This number of adipocytes (fat cells) seems to be achieved during teen years an... |
5 May 2008
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This could be the dream of any junk food lover and sport hating couch potato: becoming slim without decreasing food consumption. In a research published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, an Australian team has found a possible way of losing weight without limiting food intake, a breakthrough tha... |
29 April 2008
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The ordinary lard is more than familiar to most of us. However, mammals also have a different fatty tissue called brown fat, involved in generating heat. A new study made at New York Medical College and published in the journal BMC Biology has discovered why birds lack this tissue. In the end, birds are actually livi... |
24 April 2008
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When trans-fats were made for the first time, they were seen as the solution against artery clogging animal fats. Trans-fats or trans-fatty acids are made by solidifying oily fats by hydrogenization (adding hydrogen atoms into their molecule). Margarine was the best solution for replacing the harmful butter and lard.... |
17 April 2008
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Bad news. Having a big belly seems to mean that you'll have an even bigger one. A new research published in the FASEB Journal and carried out by a team led by Dr. Kaiping Yang at the Lawson Health Research Institute affiliated with the University of Western Ontario shows that abdominal fat tissue synthesizes a h... |
17 April 2008
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Obesity involves in most cases a lack of will. And the pandemic is rising. For most of these people eating less and healthier or exercising represent terrible ordeals. Taking a pill would be the ideal solution. There is already Xenical, a prescription-only anti-obesity drug. Its active chemical is Orlistat, a lipase ... |
16 April 2008
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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
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Overweight and obesity at middle age can cause more health problems than metabolic syndrome, the array of conditions like atherosclerosis, heart diseases, diabetes and high cholesterol, which in many cases lead to death. A new research published in the journal "Neurology" has connected the fact of having a large bell... |
27 March 2008
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Now, we have found the secret of the strong health of the Tibetan and Himalayan populations. It is in that woolly beast called yak. More precisely in its cheese. Cheese lovers have got a new target item, as a team of researchers from Nepal (a Himalayan state) and Canada has found that yak cheese has higher amounts of... |
18 March 2008
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Large women may pride on their huge breasts. But size is exactly the cause of their end. A new research published in the journal of "Clinical Cancer Research" shows that overweight or obese women with breast cancer experiencea more aggressive condition and have lower survival rates. "The more obese a patient is, the... |
14 March 2008
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For most westerners Japan is the country of sushi, samurai, aiki-do and sumo. The last one is a type of wrestling between fighters with enormous weights. Sumo is a ritual fight, and the combatants make prayers to the gods before wrestling. The aim of sumo is that the fighter must throw his adversary out of the circle... |
14 March 2008
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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
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Want a brake from your training program? Think twice! It could cost you more than you thought, as found by a new research from the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and published in the journal "Medicine & Science in Sports and Exercise." Weight gained during a rest period can be ... |
5 February 2008
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A hamburger loaded with fats and carbohydrates followed by a fat and sugar rich ice cream are the worst solutions for easing your hunger. In fact, an American team has found in a research published in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism that a high in protein meal seems to be the best solution for keep... |
30 January 2008
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The (European) walnut tree (Juglans regia) is native in a region stretching from the Balkans eastward to the Himalayas and southwest China. It is one of the oldest cultivated tree species. It forms a vigorous trunk of 18-25 m (60-83 ft) in height and over 1 m (3.3 m) in diameter. The tree grows slowly in its first ye... |
28 January 2008
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Big bellies (no matter if because of the beer or the junk food) represent a high risk of heart attacks and strokes. This was found by many researches, but no study could explain why the visceral fat boosts these health problems. This appears to be explained by a new research published in the journal "Circulation" and... |
23 January 2008
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Even if you cannot see them, there are billions of bugs swarming around you, on you and in you. An yogurt introduces billions of bacteria into your gut and the "probiotics" ones standing in your intestines are believed to alleviate many issues from bowel disease to allergies. A new research published in the Molecula... |
16 January 2008
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Well, we know that healthy food and fresh unpolluted air in the rural areas are the secret of the strong health in the case of people living in the country, but this discovery goes deeper: women living in urban areas have even unhealthy denser breasts, fact that turns them more prone to developing breast cancer, as f... |
27 November 2007
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You have to eat well to function well. To grow muscles you need proteins in your food. We stimulate our brain with various products, from caffeine to lecithin. But what about a cocktail making your brain grow?A MIT team has discovered that a cocktail made of 3 chemicals, normally found in the blood stream, boosts th... |
27 November 2007
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Metabolism is the process through which the body processes and burns the nutrients. Even the basal metabolism (when the person is resting) varies among different individuals. In the end, the balance between storing and burning defines the way we look. 1. Miserly type. It characterizes individuals that can store with ... |
24 November 2007
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Too much ice-cream, bacon and cheese means more than a big belly and bad cholesterol. Fat rich diets seem to also impair the body's internal clock, as found by a new research published in Cell Metabolism.The fatty diet on mice induced a rapid change in their normal activity patterns: the rodents ate more during ... |
7 November 2007
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A research published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences has found a gene that improves IQ in breastfed children. Having the FADS2 gene made children score, on average, 7 points more in IQ tests if they were breastfed. The study found breastfeeding had no effect on the IQ of children with a differe... |
6 November 2007
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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