Archive for 'Obesity'
High BPA, Low GPA?
Research: Kids with High Blood Pressure Score Low in Cognitive Function Tests – Bad News for Grade Point Average? Children everywhere seem to be doing, becoming or experiencing things earlier in life than when I was a kid. They’re having sex at a younger age, involved with drugs at a younger age, drinking at a [...]
Posted: March 4th, 2009 under High Blood Pressure, Obesity.
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Fat: A Brown and White Issue: Efficiency of Calorie Burning Depends on It’s Color
To judge a person by his or her color is both wrong and reprehensible. But to judge food by its color? Both good and acceptable. We all know that brown rice is better than white rice; the white meat is healthier than the dark meat, brown (wheat) bread is preferable to white bread; and brown [...]
Posted: September 2nd, 2008 under Obesity.
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Why a Champion Could Use a Revampin’: Phelps’ Diet Needs Work – For His and Other Kids’ Sake
With all that’s been said and reported about Olympic champion Michael Phelps and the eight gold medals he won at the Beijing games, the notion that a champion needs “revamping” is probably viewed as a fool’s notion. But if you’ve heard or read about what Phelps’ diet is like, the need for a revamping is [...]
Posted: September 2nd, 2008 under Obesity.
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“Gene” Made Me Do It: Could ‘FTO’ Gene Be Reason Why We Overeat?
We tend to ascribe the prevalence of obesity to people’s inability to express self-control over their eating habits. But new research reveals that some people carry a gene that actually makes it more difficult to tell whether or not they’re full, causing someone to eat more than they need. The gene is referred to as [...]
Posted: August 1st, 2008 under Obesity.
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Can Red Wine Control Obesity?
Researchers from the University of Ulm in Germany have taken what we already know about red wine and tested it on a different platform. Resveratrol is a compound found in grapes and red wine and has been apart of many different studies in the past. Within this study, Resveratrol has been found to reduce fat [...]
Posted: June 17th, 2008 under Obesity.
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Study: Among Obese, Cancer Risk Increases
More Reasons to Keep Trim Let’s face it, when it comes to working out and eating right, most of us do it because we want to appeal to the opposite sex. Sure, it might be a vain reason, but in the words of Jerry Seinfeld and George Costanza, “Not that there’s anything wrong with that.” [...]
Posted: February 17th, 2008 under Cancer, Obesity.
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