Archive for April 8th, 2010
Your Heart Truly Loves Chocolate!
A new study indicates that eating chocolate each day can be good for your heart. Â According to this study from the German Institute of Human Nutrition in Nuthetal, Germany, eating small amounts of chocolate can reduce your risk of a stroke or heart attack by 40%. To obtain their results, German scientists followed 20,000 people [...]
Posted: April 8th, 2010 under chocolate, Heart Health.
Tags: Benefits of chocolate, cacao, fighting stress, flavonols, lower blood pressure, lower risk of stroke
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Diet and Exercise Can Override the Genetic Disposition towards Obesity
A new European study whose results are published in the April edition of Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine states that exercising just one hour per day can help teenagers to override the effects of the “fatso” gene. There is no doubt that the obesity gene can make people gain weight.  One gene called the [...]
Posted: April 8th, 2010 under Exercise, Obesity.
Tags: benefits of exercise, fatso gene, FTO gene, Obesity
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