Nibbles: Energy-dense foods and diabetes, plus another obesity drug bites the...
More calories per bite may up diabetes risk Eating a diet full of energy-dense foods, those that have a higher number of calories per volume, may increase a person’s risk of developing diabetes....
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Young black men have higher blood pressure As early as their twenties, African American men have higher central blood pressure and stiffer blood vessels than white men of the same age, suggesting to...
View ArticleThe numbers game: Stats about steps, weight maintenance and drinking
You’re not wearing out shoe leather nearly fast enough Not if you want to put in the 10,000 steps per day that the fitness experts recommend. According to James Hill, who helped found America On The...
View ArticleNibbles: Weight-loss maintenance possible no matter the method used to lose,...
Maintenance harder for those who lost without surgery Whether people lose weight through surgery or on their own, they do equally well at maintaining their weight loss, according to a study from Brown...
View ArticleNibbles: Diet aids survival with breast cancer, the right fat measurement and...
Prudent diet may help women live longer While eating a diet rich in fruits, vegetables and whole grains didn’t necessarily prevent women with early stage breast cancer from later dying of the disease,...
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How much activity for weight control?
Guest contributor: Karen Collins, M.S., R.D., C.D.N. Karen Collins holds a B.S. degree from Purdue and an M.S. degree from Cornell, both in nutrition. When she’s not writing or speaking, she conducts a...
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Dr. J on maintaining your health and fitness
Contributor: “Dr. J” Dr. J offers his irreverent, slightly irrelevant, but possibly useful opinions on health and fitness. A Florida surgeon and fitness freak with a black belt in karate, he runs 50...
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Does more fiber mean more weight loss?
Guest contributor: Karen Collins, M.S., R.D., C.D.N. Karen Collins holds a B.S. degree from Purdue and an M.S. degree from Cornell, both in nutrition. When she’s not writing or speaking, she conducts a...
View ArticleNibbles: Unhealthy football players, sticks instead of carrots and lean times...
Many NFL players have high blood pressure You’d probably expect that a lot of the big guys who play in the NFL aren’t very healthy, and a study found that among the heaviest players, 91 percent had...
View ArticleWords of weight-loss wisdom, and why dieters backslide
There are hundreds of weigh-loss “rules,” but here are a few facts Dr. Robert Baron is the director of the Weight Management Program at the University of California, San Francisco, the U.C. system’s...
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Controlling Weight on Cruises and Taking Flaxseed to Reduce Blood Cholesterol
Guest contributor: Karen Collins, M.S., R.D., C.D.N. Karen Collins holds a B.S. degree from Purdue and an M.S. degree from Cornell, both in nutrition. When she’s not writing or speaking, she conducts a...
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The Importance and Role of Planning in Health and Fitness
Contributor: “Dr. J” Dr. J offers his irreverent, slightly irrelevant, but possibly useful opinions on health and fitness. A Florida surgeon and fitness freak with a black belt in karate, he runs 50...
View ArticlePoll Results: We’ll Do Anything to Stay Thin, as Long as It’s Irrelevant and...
Nutrisystem surveyed 1,001 American adults on the subject of losing — or at least not gaining — weight. The statistical results make for some fascinating reading. For example, when asked what they...
View ArticleBeetroot Juice and the Miracle Patch: A Report on the Latest Weight-Loss Aids
Beetroot Juice: Think of it as an Extra Gallon of Gas in your Tank Beyond what the name implies, I’m not sure what this is or where you might get some, but it’s evidently gaining in popularity among...
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Does the Water Diet Really Work? And the Best Diet for Keeping Lost Weight Lost
It’s the dieter’s version of “Starve a Cold and Feed a Fever.” Or is that “Feed a cold…?” (CC) FLICKR/BAKING_IN_PEARLSIt’s an almost timeless tip offered to persons trying to reduce their weight, a...
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We Only Care About Health Once a Year: Google Trends Unlocks the World’s...
Google Trends is an online tool that tracks search frequencies over several years; according to its handy graphs, we only care about health once a year. Gizmodo ran a piece yesterday about how search...
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The Numbers Game: The Case Against Dining Out, and Calculating Your Daily...
Home is Where the Heart Is. The Stomach, Unfortunately, Tends to Wander (CC) DieselDemon/Flickr Home cooking isn’t exactly a lost art, but it’s clearly in decline. The average American now takes,...
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Weighty Matters: Are You a Victim of Scale Stress Disorder (SSD)?
Contributor: “Dr. J” Dr. J offers his irreverent, slightly irrelevant, but possibly useful opinions on health and fitness. A Florida surgeon and fitness freak with a black belt in karate, he runs 50...
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The 10 Commandments of Weight Loss Maintenance
(CC) John Taylor/Flickr The National Weight Control Registry is an organization composed of some 10,000 participants, each of whom has lost at least 30 pounds and kept the lost weight off for at least...
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Obesity: Why It’s Easier to Stay Out Than to Get Out
Contributor: “Dr. J” Dr. J offers his irreverent, slightly irrelevant, but possibly useful opinions on health and fitness. A Florida surgeon and fitness freak with a black belt in karate, he runs 50...
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