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Weight Loss Diet: Healthy Eating, Losing Fat and Calories
Losing weight: Diet is the practice of eating in a regulated fashion to achieve a long-term objective. The most common objective is loss of excess body fat. Weight-loss diets restrict the intake of specific foods to reduce body weight. What works to reduce body weight for one person will not necessarily work for another, due to metabolic differences and lifestyle factors. There are lot of quick weight loss products available, but not all of them are efficient. The studies have shown that the best ways to lose weight are keeping a food diary or having a weight loss surgery.
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More evidence links longer lives to calorie restriction diest sphere.com :: 2010-01-06
The potential for calorie-restriction diets to lengthen lifespans has been pondered for decades. Now research is offering the first solid evidence that eating less might lead to longer human lifespans. Biologists at the University of Alabama at Birmingham grew different human cells, and then fed them different amounts of glucose. Healthy cells on a low-glucose diet lived longer than expected, and precancerous cells died off in mass quantities. The implications of the study - the first to examine life span using human cells, not lab animals - could be profound as more and more data suggests that calorie restriction might be a means to longer life and a reduction of age-related illnesses.
A new weight-loss plan: Getting paid to shed pounds time.com :: 2010-01-06
Financial rewards are the latest wellness craze, motivating Americans who are overweight to skip their potato chips. A few years ago, in an effort to cut overall health care costs, companies started dangling gift cards and even cash prizes to employees who shed extra pounds. Now an independent website is offering to pay anyone who drops a certain amount of weight in a year. Since HealthyWage.com launched in October 2009, 5000 persons have signed up for the site, which gets corporate sponsors to give a cash reward to overweight users who during a specified time period move from an unhealthy to a healthy body mass index (BMI).
Caloric restriction slows aging in monkeys: prevents diabetes, cancer, heart disease technologyreview.com :: 2009-08-12
A 20-year study involving rhesus monkeys has offered the first strong evidence that caloric restriction slows the aging process in primates. A diet that's nutritionally sufficient but provides 30% fewer calories than normal has been shown to extend life span and delay the age-related diseases in other animals. But because studies on primates take much longer, the benefits had not yet been proved to extend to them. Now researchers report that in rhesus monkeys, caloric restriction decreases risk of the most common age-related conditions (diabetes, cancer, heart disease, and brain atrophy) by a third.
How high carbohydrate foods raise risk for heart problems sciencedaily.com :: 2009-08-12
Doctors have known for decades that too much carbohydrate-filled foods like white bread and corn flakes can be damaging to cardiac health. New research reveals how these high carb foods increase the risk for heart problems. "Looking inside" the arteries of students eating a variety of foods, Dr. Michael Shechter saw what happens inside the body when the wrong foods for a healthy heart are eaten. Foods with a high glycemic index widened brachial arteries for several hours. When arteries are aggravated over time, a sudden enlargement of the artery wall can cause a number of negative health effects.
Top 10 weight loss supplements huffingtonpost.com :: 2009-08-12
(1) Alpha Lipoic Acid (ALA), "the universal antioxidant," is an antioxidant and anti-inflammatory found inside of the energy producing portion of the cell known as the mitochondria. Alpha lipoic acid enhances ability to metabolize food into energy. --- (2) DMAE (dimethylaminoethanol) is a naturally occurring nutritional substance with powerful anti-inflammatory properties, found in fish. DMAE is important in the production of neurotransmitters. Taking DMAE as a supplement boosts cognitive functions and increases skin firmness and muscle tone - important for anyone on a weight loss or anti-aging program.
10 things you should know about fat sun-sentinel.com :: 2009-07-03
People who do 5-10 minutes of cardio aren't burning fat, they're just burning sugars. Body may not get into the fat-burning system for 25 minutes --- We need some dietary fat: It helps satisfy us when we eat and is crucial for basic body metabolism and disease prevention. --- Fat-free or reduced-fat may not be best: For example peanut butter is a great source of healthy fat, but when you buy reduced-fat peanut butter, fat often is replaced with sugar or unhealthy fillers. --- Body needs 20%-30% of daily calories to come from fat: The key is what kind of fat. Unsaturated fats are the healthier option: Olive and canola oils, olives, nuts, avocados, salmon, tuna, sardines.
2-9 liters of cola per day leads to muscle weakness foodconsumer.org :: 2009-07-03
The results of a study published in the International Journal of Clinical Practice add another health risk from cola beverages to an ever growing list: hypokalemia. It's a condition resulting from dropping potassium levels. It produces a negative reaction in the muscles: symptoms range from mild muscle weakness to paralysis. The link between the condition and cola intake is so direct that just dropping the cola beverages and giving the patient either oral or IV potassium leads to full recovery. Dr. Moses Elisaf's team reviewed cases of muscle weakness that were directly related to drinking of 2-9 liters of cola per day.
Emotional eating examiner.com :: 2009-05-04
WebMd defines emotional overating as "the practice of consuming large quanites of food - usually comfort or junk foods - in response to feelings instead of hunger". Emotional eating is one way to cope with stress and difficult issues. Not a good way - And it's one of the biggest reasons why people overeat. Nutritionist Andrea Wenger Hess explains: "Food never solves the problem, and usually it just contributes to a cycle of guilt, low self-esteem and overeating. Get to the root of the problem. Food is meant for physical nourishment, not for emotional comfort, reward or punishment."
Survey reveals: Many not aware of alcohol calories bbc.co.uk :: 2009-05-04
40% did not know a glass of wine has the same calories (120) as a slice of cake. The survey of 2,000 persons in UK was carried out as part of the government's drive to control people's drinking habits. The campaign also stresses that a heavy drinking session is usually followed by an unhealthy breakfast. A regular beer drinker, who drinks 5 pints a week or 250 over the course of a year, packs away the same number of calories as someone eating 221 doughnuts. While the average wine drinker consumed 2,000 calories each month - Over the course of a year, that is the equivalent of eating 38 roast beef dinners.
Research: White tea may fight obesity telegraph.co.uk :: 2009-05-04
A rarefied white tea used by the Chinese since the days of the Ming Dynasty could play a key role in fighting obesity, new research has revealed. Naturally occurring chemicals in white tea (made by plucking the youngest buds of the tea plant) are capable of breaking down fat cells and preventing new ones from forming. White tea has previously been linked to stronger bones, lowering blood pressure and decreasing the risk of some cancers. The new research, published in the journal Nutrition and Metabolism, claims that anti-fat properties can be added to that list.