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Scientists report in a new research paper that teens and young adults who are in the habit of attending religious functions at least once per week are 50 percent more likely to become fat by middle age. Those who do not attend these activities are at a decreased risk of suffering from obesity at the same age, add res... |
28 March 2011
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Being called 'obese' is worse than being called 'fat', and the way we qualify a heavy-weight person can influence the opinions we make on people, according to a new study carried out by the University of New south Wales.The research concluded that the term 'obese people' triggers more ne... |
13 December 2010
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For three years now, laser liposuction has been practiced in the United States with the approval of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The reason why most people request the procedure is that it eliminates some of the major drawbacks of conventional liposuction.For starters, the established way of removing exces... |
8 December 2010
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An Oxford University scientist carried out a review which concluded that there is not any credible evidence that eating more fruits and vegetables, reduces the risks of developing cancer, even if they are important elements of a healthy diet.Professor Tim Key of the Cancer Epidemiology Unit at Oxford University analy... |
1 December 2010
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Women looking to rid themselves of the tummy rolls after pregnancy or weight gain have a very strong ally in the Nip + Fab Tummy Fix lotion, which is definitely the toning product of the year, based on sales alone. As Marie Claire puts it, not only is the toning lotion getting raving reviews from those lucky women wh... |
18 October 2010
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Rapper Nicki Minaj is not only a force to be reckoned with on the music scene, she’s also reaping praises for her enviably curvy backside – which is precisely what is getting her now in the headlines. According to a report on Make Me Heal, people who know Nicki from way back have noticed that it’s n... |
8 October 2010
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Two new surgical procedures are bound to make women go crazy over them in the following years, surgeons in the UK believe: the Miami Thong Lift and the Brazilian Tummy Tuck. As the name of the former implies, it’s meant to give women the kind of backside that, until now, only the likes of Kim Kardashian and Jen... |
28 September 2010
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According to an announcement made by the US Food and Drug Administration, it would appear that the agency approved the use of a laser that is capable of removing excess fat from waists.The decision comes amid controversies over how the laser works. More specifically, many are fearing that the new fat-removing techniq... |
17 September 2010
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Grapefruits contain naringenin, which is an antioxidant derived from their bitter flavor, as well as from other citrus fruits, that causes the liver to break down fat and increase insulin sensitivity.Research carried out by a team from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), found... |
26 August 2010
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The discovery of a surprising interaction that helps break down fat could open the way to slowing down fat digestion and create food structures that trigger satiety.Scientists from the Institute of Food Research have conducted several experiments where they used protein layers to stabilize emulsions, thus slowing dow... |
19 August 2010
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It is a widely known fact that individuals who are obese tend to be more prone to developing a host of medical conditions, including diabetes and heart diseases. A new study comes to suggest that one of the reasons why this happens is because excess fat, especially around the abs, can hinder the action of the immune ... |
23 April 2010
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Hearing someone complaining about how they diet and do crunches like crazy but they still have some fat on the tummy is not that uncommon. If that be the case with you too, then know that it’s because you’re doing something wrong, FitSugar points out. The good news, though, is that, by paying attention to... |
25 March 2010
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A new scientific study, published in the March issue of the respected scientific journal Geology, proposes that the first organisms to colonize the lands on our planet may have had some help. The earliest microbe populations that lived in the world's water, alongside shore lines and elsewhere, could hypothetical... |
5 March 2010
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Microsoft has positioned exFAT as a key technology helping to drive new digital multimedia experiences for users, especially as device manufacturers create products designed to deliver more than just traditional content. Customers running Panasonic products in the future will be able to enjoy the added multimedia cap... |
27 February 2010
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According to a new scientific investigation, it would appear that small-sized migrating birds may actually be better off if they are a bit on the chubby side. Researchers say that a little extra fat may be very beneficial for the winged creatures, seeing how long-distance migrations tend to take a huge toll on their ... |
18 February 2010
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Women striving to become thinner so that they fit the current beauty standard imposed by stars like Victoria Beckham and Keira Knightley should consider their diet plans twice before getting through with it. A new study comes to confirm the findings of older research, namely that storage of fat on the body, especiall... |
13 January 2010
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The modern successor of the FAT system is currently available for licensing from Microsoft, through what a company representative referred to as a flexible licensing program. Companies worldwide can integrate the Extended File Allocation Table (exFAT) into their own products for a flat fee of as low as $300.000. How... |
11 December 2009
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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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