obesity

Green Tea Extract and Weight Loss

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A fascinating new study adds to the growing body of literature showing that green tea can impact weight gain and be an important tool in the fight against obesity. In the current study, published in Obesity, obese mice that were fed a weight-gaining diet put on significantly less weight when they were supplemented with green [...]

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Vitamin D Delays Progression of Diabetes

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Guest article by John Cannell, MD, president of the Vitamin D Council Diabetes mellitus type 2, or adult-onset diabetes, is epidemic, according to the CDC. It is a disease of high blood sugar with insulin resistance or insulin deficiency. Insulin resistance is what it sounds like. The cells are resistant to the action of insulin, [...]

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Toxins Made From Sugar Linked to Aging and Diabetes

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Toxins Made From Sugar by Craig Weatherby (The following is a guest article from health reporter Craig Weatherby, who writes the Vital Choice newsletter. Vital Choice is our favorite source for the highest quality wild salmon in the world. Check them out here.) Cooking foods that contain sugars and protein at high temperatures results in [...]

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Eat Breakfast to Lose Weight

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How important is breakfast, really? We’ve all heard the saying, “Breakfast is the most important meal of the day”, but is it really? A new study published in the Journal of Nutrition seems to answer that question with a resounding “yes”. People who regularly skip breakfast have a higher risk of obesity, and regularly eating [...]

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Too Much Sugar Increases Risk for Heart Disease

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Adults who consume high levels of sugar have significantly elevated levels of several risk factors for heart disease, according to a new study by a team of researchers at the University of California, Davis, and in Japan. The study results suggest that U.S. dietary guidelines for sugar may be lax and should be reconsidered, the [...]

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Are You a Food Addict?

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(This excellent article on food addiction was written by Kevin Helliker and was originally published in the Wall Street Journal.) A new study suggests that people who struggle to say no to chocolate, french fries or other junk food suffer from something more insidious than lack of willpower: They may actually have an addiction. Using [...]

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Obesity or Smoking? Guess Which One Threatens Most

When we reach the point where obesity threatens life expectancy more than smoking, we are in serious trouble. That’s what researchers writing for the New England Journal of Medicine say. They did some fancy statistical footwork and looked at how many years the average person is likely to gain in life expectancy from declining smoking [...]

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Sodas and Obesity – Here’s The Proof!

Despite periodic disclaimers from the American Beverage Association, there isn’t a health professional worth his salt who doesn’t believe soda drinking is linked to obesity. Now researchers have provided proof. Researchers from the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research (CHPR) and the California Center for Public Health Advocacy (CCPHA) found that adults who drink a [...]

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Let’s Stop Dying, OK?

Researchers from the Harvard School of Public Health, the University of Toronto and the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington have just published the most comprehensive study ever done about how diet, lifestyle and…

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