16th December, 2008 - Posted by admin - No Comments
Sixty minutes of vigorous aerobic exercises on a treadmill is better than 90 minutes of weight-lifting in suppressing  appetite. Aerobics do so by modifying release of two key appetite hormones, ghrelin and peptide YY, while weight-lifting affects the level of only ghrelin, according to a new study. This line of research may eventually lead to more effective ways to use » Read More
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Kids who sleep less than 10 hours a night are likely to become overweight by age 6, a new study has found. The research team led by Universite de Montreal found that 30 per cent of children in the age group 6 months to six years have difficulties sleeping six consecutive hours — either because they » Read More
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Not eating enough is the major reason why we fall off the diet wagon. Here are some tips to bulk up your diet — not your figure Stock up on starchy carbs They get bad press but about one third of your diet should be made up of rice, beans and bread. Provided they aren’t smothered with » Read More
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NEW ORLEANS: Obese children as young as 10 had the arteries of 45-year-olds and other heart abnormalities that greatly raise their risk of heart  disease, say doctors who used ultrasound tests to take a peek inside. “As the old saying goes, you’re as old as your arteries are,” said Dr. Geetha Raghuveer of Children’s Hospital in Kansas City, » Read More
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Article published in Health.com states that   Two of the most common diseases in the United States — cancer and diabetes — are not often linked together in the public mind. But they may have a stronger link than most people think. Cancer patients who already have diabetes have a greater chance of dying of the » Read More