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7 Tips To Help Your Kid Develop A Positive Self-image
Try these 7 tips to foster optimism and resilience in your overweight child: 1) Believe in your Children. Assure your children that you are on their side and that you expect then to be the best person that they can be, although you don’t expect them to be the best at anything. No one is […]
Weight training appears key to controlling belly fat
Healthy men who did twenty minutes of daily weight training had less of an increase in age-related abdominal fat compared with men who spent the same amount of time doing aerobic activities, according to a new study by Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) researchers and colleagues. Combining weight training and aerobic activity led to […]
When you lose weight, where does the fat go? Most of the mass is breathed out as carbon dioxide, study shows
Despite a worldwide obsession with diets and fitness regimes, many health professionals cannot correctly answer the question of where body fat goes when people lose weight, a UNSW Australia study shows. The most common misconception among doctors, dieticians and personal trainers is that the missing mass has been converted into energy or heat. “There is […]
Immune cells in brain respond to fat in diet, causing mice to eat
Immune cells perform a previously unsuspected role in the brain that may contribute to obesity, according to a new study by UC San Francisco researchers. When the researchers fed mice a diet high in saturated milk fats, microglia, a type of immune cell, underwent a population explosion in the brain region called the hypothalamus, which […]
7 Top Foods To Include In Your Kid’s Diet
Here is a list of the top 7 healthiest foods to feed your kid and why it’s so healthy: 1. Oatmeal: A fabulous breakfast food, full of B vitamins, iron, zinc and calcium. Old-fashioned oatmeal offers plenty of carbohydrate for quick energy and high fiber. Add berries and honey to make it a delicious perfect […]
Low carb, high fat diets may reduce seizures in tough-to-treat epilepsy
Diets high in fat and low in carbohydrates, such as the ketogenic or modified Atkins diet, may reduce seizures in adults with tough-to-treat epilepsy, according to a review of the research published in the October 29, 2014, online issue of Neurology®, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology. Epilepsy is a nervous system […]
Muscle Tactics Releases Highly Anticipated "science Of Abs" Fat Loss Program
Pompano Beach, FL (PRWEB) October 12, 2014 Having six pack abs is the goal for any guy who steps foot in the gym, but many men have trouble achieving that ripped physique and seem to store more body fat in their mid section. Most guys have a pre disposition to storing belly fat and having […]
Male and female brains aren’t equal when it comes to fat
Researchers have found that male and female brains respond in remarkably different ways to high-fat meals. Those differences in the brain lead to greater inflammation and increased health risks in males that indulge on fatty foods in comparison to females, a new study in mice shows. The findings reported in the Cell Press journal Cell […]
Hunger games: How the brain ‘browns’ fat to aid weight loss
Researchers at Yale School of Medicine have uncovered a molecular process in the brain known to control eating that transforms white fat into brown fat. This process impacts how much energy we burn and how much weight we can lose. The results are published in the Oct. 9 issue of the journal Cell. Obesity is […]
Fat chats: The good, the bad and the ugly comments
Cyberbullying and hurtful “fat jokes” are disturbingly prevalent in the social media environment, especially on Twitter, says Wen-ying Sylvia Chou of the National Institutes of Health in the US. Chou is lead author of a study in Springer’s journal Translational Behavioral Medicine which analyzed well over a million social media posts and comments about weight […]