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Low-fat diet results in more fat loss than low-carb diet in humans
Some of the most precise human data yet on whether cutting carbs or fat has the most benefits for losing body fat. Now, researchers show how, contrary to popular claims, restricting dietary fat can lead to greater body fat loss than carb restriction, even though a low-carb diet reduces insulin and increases fat burning.
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How To Choose A Safe Litterless Lunch Container For Your Kids - Within Your Hands
I recently reread an interesting article that I found in The Toronto Star, "Litterless lunch policies at schools making kids’ lunches...
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A Surefire Way to Stop Feeling Sorry for Yourself
You know those days when everything seems to go wrong? I had one of those days recently. Here's how I stopped feeling sorry for myself.
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Social 20-year-olds are more satisfied at 50
The quantity of social interactions a person has at 20—and the quality of friendships that person has at age 30—may increase well-being later in life.
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Is Running Meditation?
The way running inherently connects mind and body, along with the sport's neurochemical effects, serve as a wonderful and unique way to prime for meditation.
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How Meditation Heals Your Mind and Your Home
Do you crave some calming Zen in your home? Perhaps you should take up the art of meditation to heal not only your mind, but your home as well.
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Obese men have just a '1 in 210' chance of attaining a healthy body weight
Obese men have only a one in 210 chance of attaining a healthy body weight, according to new research that suggests diet and exercise strategies are not effective in combating the obesity epidemic.
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Effects of a moderate intake of beer on markers of hydration after exercise in the heat: a crossover study.
RESULTS: Body mass (BM) decreased (both ~ 2.4%) after exercise in both trials. After rehydration, BM and fat free mass significantly increased although BM did not return to baseline levels. Beer intake did not adversely affect any measured parameter. Fluid balance and urine excretion values did not differ between the rehydration strategies.
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Lifehacker - Tips and downloads for getting things done
Tips and downloads for getting things done
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We’re At The Tipping Point!
A couple of podcasters who interviewed me recently asked if I believe we’re at a tipping point. I do. I’m seeing a major shift in what the public at large considers a healthy diet, thanks largely to the Wisdom of Crowds effect. It seems that more and more people are rejecting the decades-old anti-fat message and embracing real food – fat and all.
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Fat is Back!
Fat is back. Quite a nice CNN headline: CNN: Fat is back: New guidelines give vilified nutrient a reprieve Forbes: Fat Makes A Comeback: Experts Say It’s Time To Stop Limiting Dietary Fats This comes after an article by a couple of top researchers in a the highly respected scientific journal JAMA. They urge the relevant …
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How mustard oil can make you more beautiful
Many people have heard of mustard, but not many know of mustard oil. It is one of those less known oils which has a lot to offer.
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The case for drinking whole milk
Once upon a time, Americans drank a lot of whole milk. But when the anti-fat movement of the 1980s took hold, no-fat or lower-fat milks saw their popularity rise along with the cream that would soon be skimmed off the top. For most people, creamy, nutritious, delicious whole milk, like the milkmen who used to deliver it, became a relic of the past.
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The science of women's curves
Women’s bodies are extraordinary—few other species have such a difference in body composition between males and females. Amanda Smith takes a look at why men’s and women’s bodies are so different, and asks why so many women have fraught relationships with their curves.
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Why Essential Oils Are Essential For Your Home
Are you aware of the power of essential oils? They can actually heal your home and help you live a greener life. Read out article to learn more.
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Is Scurvy The New Diabetes?
Right now, there’s about a cup of orange juice in my gut, sloshing around and mingling with my stomach acid as it delivers all the vitamin C that I require for the day. I’ve got some major bruises on my knees, and so once the essential nutrient hits my body’s internal transport system, the orange juice that I just drank will play an important role in wound healing, preventing future capillaries from bleeding too easily, and with any luck helping me perform enough sweet...
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The Invention That Could End Obesity
A Michigan surgeon invented an apparatus that he believes tricks the brain into thinking the stomach is full. His Full Sense Device could be a lifesaver for millions of obese Americans and raises questions about how hunger — our most basic human impulse — even works.
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6 Ingredients For Amazing Skin
Despite being the largest organ in the body, we often neglect our skin. As they say, "you are what you eat" and our complexion shows it.
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Diet and exercise alone are no cure for obesity, doctors say
A group of respected physicians has stepped forward to challenge the common assertion that obesity can be easily fixed by diet and exercise. For most of the nation's 79 million adults and 13 million kids who are obese, the "eat less, move more" treatment, as currently practiced, is a prescription for failure, these doctors say. In a commentary published Thursday in the journal Lancet Diabetes and Endocrinology, four weight-loss specialists set out to correct what they view...
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How Much Fat Do We Actually Need?
It is interesting to note just how few fats are essential to consume. What this means is that the body can manufacture every other fat necessary for human health. That means we don’t need to consume any other fats, no saturated fat, no cholesterol, etc. Our body can make all we need.
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