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Healthy Eating Tips For Losing Weight
Follow these healthy eating tips and you could soon get closer to your weight loss goals. Losing weight isn’t rocket science, in fact it is surprisingly easy once you know how. 1. Eat more starchy foods – many people think that starchy foods like potatoes, rice and pasta are fattening but they do actually contain […]
Five Things Anyone Can Do To Stay Healthy
While there are many lifestyle choices a person can make to stay healthy, most experts agree that there are five main behaviors we can initiate in order to increase our chances of staying in optimum physical health. The beneficial tips presented in this article are by far not an all-inclusive list. In research studies all […]
8 Tips For A Healthy And Shining Skin
Tip 1: Drink Water Water has long been considered as the most efficient natural treatment or an almost free treatment for any skin condition because of its being alkaline, with pH 7.3. It prevents dehydration which is capable of producing sebum or oil from the sebaceous glands. Your skin needs water in order for it […]
Healthy lifestyle may buffer against stress-related cell aging
A new study from UC San Francisco is the first to show that while the impact of life’s stressors accumulate overtime and accelerate cellular aging, these negative effects may be reduced by maintaining a healthy diet, exercising and sleeping well. “The study participants who exercised, slept well and ate well had less telomere shortening than […]
Parents rank their obese children as ‘very healthy’
A University of California, San Diego School of Medicine-led study suggests that parents of obese children often do not recognize the potentially serious health consequences of childhood weight gain or the importance of daily physical activity in helping their child reach a healthy weight. The study is published online in the Journal of the Academy […]
Neighborhoods with healthy food options less likely to have overweight kids
Children with a greater number of healthy food outlets near their homes had a reduced likelihood of being overweight or obese, finds an Australian study published in American Journal of Health Promotion. Children who had access to at least one healthy food outlet within 800 meters (about half a mile) of their home had a […]
Explaining ‘healthy’ obesity
Up to one-quarter of individuals currently labeled as obese are actually metabolically healthy and do not have a high risk of developing type 2 diabetes. Though obesity is a major risk factor for diabetes, the two conditions aren’t always linked. A study published by Cell Press July 3rd in the journal Cell sheds light on […]
‘Healthy’ component of red wine, resveratrol, causes pancreatic abnormalities in fetuses
Here’s more evidence that pregnant women should be careful about what they eat and drink: A new research report appearing in the June 2014 issue of The FASEB Journal shows that when taken during pregnancy, resveratrol supplements led to developmental abnormalities in the fetal pancreas. This study has direct relevance to human health–Resveratrol is widely […]
3 Foods for Healthy Skin
June 2, 2014, 12:00AM PT in Fitnovatives Blog | Fresh, younger-looking skin is something everyone can appreciate. And with summer around the corner, many of us are turning our attention to what we put on our skin to protect it from the elements. However, what we put in our body can be just […]
People with low incomes less likely to use healthy weight loss strategies
Poorer people of all ages are less likely than wealthier ones to follow recommended strategies for weight loss, finds a recent study in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine. “We found that compared to persons of higher household incomes, both youths and adults of lower household incomes were less likely to use strategies that are […]