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Three years ago, the fashion industry was left reeling after Karolina Kurkova, one of the most famous Angels from Victoria's Secret, walked the catwalk after an obvious weight gain. Not only did she pack on the pound back then, but she also went through menopause, it has emerged. The 27-year-old stunner made the... |
10 February 2012
13:51 GMT |
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Healthcare experts determined in previous studies that infants born with reduced weight tended to become obese later in life, a lot more so than their peers with a normal birth weight. A new research sheds light on the mechanisms underlying this correlation. Scientists discovered that the primary reason for which thi... |
10 March 2011
09:02 GMT |
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In a new scientific study, researchers show that inscription of the packages of food, that describe the amounts of carbohydrates these products contain, are misleading to customers. Companies producing these foods generally tend to advertise health benefits by employing claims such as that their products contain low ... |
7 September 2010
08:29 GMT |
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After a long love and hate relationship with diets, former model, actress and businesswoman Liz Hurley says she’s found the secret to a toned body: no breakfast. Nutritionists are far from happy about it. Having recently been targeted by the tabloid media for reportedly getting breast implants, Liz took to her ... |
26 August 2010
15:41 GMT |
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Fast food is becoming increasingly popular with British women, as also is alcohol, a new study comes to show. At the same time, pressure to look a certain way (i.e. standardized thin) means more and more women are cutting down on nutritious foods, which further puts their health at risk. What’s worse, the effec... |
1 June 2010
17:01 GMT |
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This past week, three gorgeous female stars came clean about the diets they resorted to to get in top shape or the tricks they often used to lose a few pounds quickly when need be. Jennifer Aniston recently lost a dress size with the help of the baby-food diet, Naomi Campbell admitted she went on a detox diet three t... |
10 May 2010
13:51 GMT |
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For several decades, anthropologists and other experts have been debating about the origins of the cognitive abilities that placed our species in a dominant position on the planet. Many scholars cite the famous Lascaux cave paintings as being among the first signs of higher brain powers, whereas others contest the cl... |
23 April 2010
10:04 GMT |
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Though we often hear that X or Y celebrity has gotten into amazing shape with the help of a fad diet, or that a friend of a friend of a friend also tried out a new diet and can vouch it works, the truth is dieting is not the way to go for sustainable weight loss. Nutritionists have often pointed out that diets come w... |
19 February 2010
16:21 GMT |
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Great looking hair is not only the result of using good haircare products, such as shampoos and treatments. Hair looks good when we’re healthy too, which implicitly means its appearance takes a turn for the worse when we’re not well. Stress is one of the main factors behind hair loss, with a new study cit... |
7 December 2009
14:41 GMT |
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Fad diets usually promise impressive results over short periods of time, which is why they’re so popular no matter how many warnings health experts issue concerning them. The downsides are that the results don’t stand the test of time and, secondly, that they imply restrictions many of us find it hard to ... |
24 November 2009
14:11 GMT |
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Countless women have made a habit out of going on a quick diet if they want to lose a couple of pounds in time for one event or another. These diets are usually based on limiting food intake to the point of having the slimmer subsist on one meal a day or, even worse, a handful of seeds or a few fruit. The problem wit... |
23 November 2009
16:31 GMT |
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Exercise is ideal if we want to improve our mood, tone our body and lead an overall healthier life. However, when it comes to shifting the extra pounds, it is fairly useless if not accompanied by a changed diet as well, a detail many of us overlook when we set out to lose weight, author, nutritionist and weight-loss ... |
22 September 2009
16:41 GMT |
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Summer, although the perfect season to gorge on fruit and veggies, often turns out to be quite the contrary to that. Summer means holidays and visiting exotic places with exotic foods, but also the season of barbecues, ice creams and nights out in town. It’s no wonder, then, that we have days when we feel compl... |
31 August 2009
15:11 GMT |
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In rural Indonesia, smoking is a fairly common habit and can be met at every corner. However, because the region is so impoverished, there is little money for buying cigarettes, and a new study has revealed that most men who smoke there take money out of their families' food budget in order to satisfy their own ... |
24 August 2009
20:01 GMT |
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We probably all know by now that, if something seems too good to be true, it probably is. After falling prey countless times to miracle weight-loss products and instant diets that promise fast results without us having to do anything in particular, skepticism towards the Sensa Tastant Crystals is more than understand... |
17 August 2009
14:31 GMT |
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We as a society have probably grown accustomed to looking at people who struggle with their weight and think, “They’ve brought it upon themselves,” because they did not exercise enough willpower. At the same time, we’re constantly being told that the obesity epidemics is about to reach a troub... |
3 August 2009
14:21 GMT |
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The people at Random Ideas, who are responsible for a good number of iPhone and Mac OS X applications, have released Edibles, for iPhone and iPod touch users. The five-dollar app lets them track calories, carbs or any single user-defined value, which Edibles then automatically deducts from configurable daily, weekly,... |
9 July 2009
09:44 GMT |
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Crash diets are not uncommon, no matter how much nutritionists and health experts warn of the health risks they entail in the long run and the almost certain weight re-gain once the slimmer comes off them. Still, nutritionist and author Dr. Susan Roberts says crash dieting can lead to greater weight loss without the ... |
1 June 2009
14:21 GMT |
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Even if we’re dieting and we’re steering clear from many foods that we’d indulge in otherwise, there is one golden rule we should always bear in mind: it’s best to eat more but smaller meals than stick to the three or two large meals a day. Experts say for Shape magazine that this is practical... |
28 May 2009
13:11 GMT |
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Whenever we decide to lose weight, even if just a couple of pounds, we arm ourselves with an entire arsenal of weapons, from patience and courage, resolutions not to fall off the bandwagon, to several dietary plans and workout equipment. Our approach to losing weight is like a revolution of sorts, and it’s prec... |
1 May 2009
08:01 GMT |
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This much talk about the obesity epidemic has also prompted heated discussions about the food we eat and its quality, as well as the kind of impact it has on our body and, ultimately, our health. Food author Michael Pollan was asked to speak for researchers at the CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) and ... |
24 March 2009
16:41 GMT |
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Diets can come extremely in handy in terms of losing weight, with the efficiency of some of them having already been put to the test in extensive studies. With all this, slimmers fail in their mission against the extra pounds, not on account of the diet they choose, but because they can’t seem to be able to sti... |
20 March 2009
06:50 GMT |
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Dieting can be hard, that much is for certain. One of the harshest things a dieter has to face in the fight to shed the pounds is the feeling of being deprived of the foods they like. A new research comes to show that indulging cravings can actually be the solution to making this sensation go away, while also making ... |
18 February 2009
06:07 GMT |
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Healthy habits are what makes our life as beautiful as it is, it has been claimed. Health experts and nutritionists, for instance, say that it’s the healthy eating habits that we have that make the restrictions we impose upon ourselves easier to bear. On this note, the morning cup of coffee many of us can&rsquo... |
13 January 2009
16:41 GMT |
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Around this time of the year, women’s (but not only) biggest problem is how to keep the weight off, while also being able to indulge at least in some of the holiday treats that seem to literally jump their way everywhere they go. While some choose not to touch absolutely anything holiday-specific, meaning starv... |
22 December 2008
16:21 GMT |
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Jon Brown has released BeFit 1.0, an easy-to-use Mac app that will help you track the caloric value of your meals. It's intuitive, functional and practical and lets you track your foods using limitless lists, multiple food groups, the Spotlight searching feature in OS X and more. You can even print out your food... |
29 August 2008
08:20 GMT |
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Most people would eat almost anything today, as long as it tastes good and it fills up their bellies, regardless of how healthy it is, the nutritional values or the bunch of chemicals they swallow up. No wonder that the US is currently facing a serious obesity epidemic - people suddenly forgot that food has a nutriti... |
3 July 2008
04:59 GMT |
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When it comes to using up excess calories, the rule is extremely simple: the more you exercise, the more calories you burn. However, there are a few things about calorie burning that most of us don't know - things that are bound to help us get a better understanding of the amount of effort we need to undertake i... |
23 June 2008
11:42 GMT |
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