Unexpected Weight Gain Sources
	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 still we put on weight. This is not only extremely frustrating, it's a downright killer to all the self-confid ... [read more >>]
	07 June 2008, 05:35GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Why Having Big Buttocks Is Good for Your Health
	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 and carried out at The Harvard Medical School. Subcutaneous fat seems to have opposite effects to visceral fat, t ... [read more >>]
	07 May 2008, 06:58GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The Analysis of Your Urine Tells Where You Are From
	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 journal Nature, made a "urine map" that could tell where a person comes from based on urine analyses. Th ... [read more >>]
	22 April 2008, 14:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Aerobics Prolongs Life by 12 Years
	No doubt, practicing a sport makes you look younger. But the effect is also present inside. A new research published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine shows that a person who goes to classes of aerobic fitness may cut down up to 12 years from his/her biological age. Jogging and other types of aerobic exercise appear to maintain high the body's oxygen consumption and the metabolism. Aerobic exercise was already con ... [read more >>]
	11 April 2008, 14:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The Secret for Big Muscles: Ibuprofen and Acetaminophen (Paracetamol)
	What is the connection between a cold and big muscles? Compared with a placebo drug, the daily-recommended dosages of ibuprofen and acetaminophen (paracetamol) have been found to induce a significant higher growth of quadriceps muscle mass and strength gained in three months of regular weight lifting, as revealed by a team from the Human Performance Laboratory, Ball State University, and presented at Experimental Biology 2008 in ... [read more >>]
	07 April 2008, 14:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Fat-Rich Diet of Pregnant Women Translates into Future Obese Adult Progeny
	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 pregnancy and lactation, had offspring who were fatter than those resulted after a normal diet. The harmful effects ... [read more >>]
	07 April 2008, 14:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The Secret of Arrested Human Animation Is in Rotten Eggs and Farts
	You might have seen the trick in SF movies: hibernating space navigators go to their target locations, located at distances of light years, while asleep, in an arrested animation, just like bacteria and tardigrades do. But an arrested metabolism could save lives not only in space, but on Earth too. ... [read more >>]
	28 March 2008, 18:21GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Red Meat Attacks the Heart
	You may be an avid carnivorous, looking continuously for proteins, calcium and iron in the food, but here comes some bad news for you: people eating two or more servings of red meat daily are much more vulnerable to heart disease and diabetes. This is the result of a research published in the journal "Circulation," which connected this diet habit with a 25% higher risk of experiencing a group of conditions called metabolic, comp ... [read more >>]
	06 February 2008, 05:46GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Top 5 Reasons Why You Should Breastfeed Instead of Using Formula Milk
	Today, in many western countries, less than 1% of women breastfeed exclusively for the first six months of the baby's life. In UK, the categories most prone to breastfeeding were found to be well educated, professional women, older than 30 and mothers for the first time. The fear of ending up with the saggy boobs, commodity, lack of time and other factors have contributed to this. But why breastfeeding instead of using formula milk? ... [read more >>]
	04 December 2007, 14:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

What's Your Metabolic Type?
	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 maximum efficiency everything from food. During our evolutionary stage of hunters-gatherers, this would have me ... [read more >>]
	24 November 2007, 04:53GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

9 Tips to Maintain Your Good Shape
	1. Mobilize the fats. Physical exercise and sports burn 2,000 calories extra weekly. Walking, footing, biking, climbing stairs, swimming... Walking daily for one hour you will consume those calories. 2. Regulate the insulin. Eat aliments that are rich in fibers, which require more chewing and keep constant the levels of sugar in the blood, satiating it for longer periods. 3. ‘Trick’ the feeling of hunger. Drink a lot of w ... [read more >>]
	19 November 2007, 13:41GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

How Are Sleep, Hunger and Thinness Connected?
	Lazy bone individuals are slimmer. It is known that people sleeping less are prone to be overweight or obese. But a new research published in the journal Genes and Development has also revealed how orexin, a hormone controlling sleep and hunger, works: it activates a protein, named HIF-1, previously known for its role on activating cancerous tumor growth. "The study is among the first to show how HIF-1 operates in healthy tissues rath ... [read more >>]
	15 November 2007, 05:35GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Vibrations Could Make You Lean!
	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 platform delivered extremely subtle, almost undetectable vibrations. These tremors could have imitated muscle move ... [read more >>]
	25 October 2007, 04:26GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The Right Grains Keep You Smart All Day
	The secret of being smart all day has been found: eat the right cereals for breakfast, like whole-grain barley or rye and your blood sugar will be constant all day, as a result of a mix of low GI (glycemic index) and indigestible sugars encountered in some grains. The research made at Lund University reveals that even people who have eaten a breakfast poor in GI displayed an improved concentration for the rest of the morning. High vari ... [read more >>]
	25 September 2007, 03:08GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Good Cholesterol Can be Boosted!
	Cholesterol may be dangerous, but it also has its good variant in the blood that decreases the risk of heart attack. If a new research made on mice has results that are also valid for humans, new therapies could boost the levels of the beneficial high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C) as a means of heart protection. "By and large, the medicines now available lower levels of the ‘bad’ low-density lipoprotein cholesterol [LDL- ... [read more >>]
	08 August 2007, 05:39GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Do Slimming Pills Really Make You Slim?
	The only magical formula to get slim is combining diet and exercising. But in the case of the persons that are prone to obesity, drugs and natural products can help, as long as they are taken under the medical control, as most of them have secondary effects. Orlistat is commercialized under the name of Xenical, and blocks an intestinal enzyme impeding the digestion of 32 % of the fats. But this is effective only in the case o ... [read more >>]
	28 July 2007, 06:19GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Light Soda Linked to Obesity and Heart Attack
	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 low levels of the artery-protecting HDL cholesterol. Still, a new research has found that drinking more than one soda daily, ... [read more >>]
	24 July 2007, 02:55GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia