4th February, 2011 - Posted by admin - No Comments
London: The world is becoming a heavier place, especially in the West. Obesity rates worldwide have doubled in the last three decades even as blood pressure and cholesterol levels have dropped, according to three new studies. People in Pacific Island nations like American Samoa are the heaviest, one of the studies shows. Among developed countries, Americans are » Read More
8th December, 2010 - Posted by admin - No Comments
A study has suggested that if you want to lose weight you need to hang out with people who are healthy and skinny and not with the ones who are obese. The research conducted on 3,610 women aged between 18 and 46 showed that those who move in healthier circles are more likely to drop bad habits, » Read More
11th November, 2010 - Posted by admin - No Comments
NEW DELHI: India is now in the grip of an Obesity epidemic and the trend needs to be immediately arrested by taxing junk food, restricting food ads and making food labelling clearer, according to a study. The study that looked at the burden of overweight citizens in six countries — Brazil, China, India, Mexico, Russia and South » Read More
31st October, 2010 - Posted by admin - No Comments
Blame it on SRK’s six-pack-magic, Aamir’s eight-pack-charisma or Priyanka’s hot bikini bod, but flaunting the flattest tummy and a set of well toned abs is the latest dream for many youngsters. But, they usually tend to forget that it takes more than just basic crunches and crash dieting to carve a drool worthy, flat stomach. » Read More
5th October, 2010 - Posted by admin - No Comments
Pomegranate can help prevent cancer, is good for your health and can even boost your sex life. Now, scientists believe that Pomegranate juice has the power to reduce the fat around the stomach - the ’spare tyre’ in men or the ‘muffin top’ in women. After just one month, volunteers who consumed a bottle of pomegranate juice daily were » Read More
4th October, 2010 - Posted by admin - No Comments
Followed every Diet in the book, but love handles still giving you nightmares? Well, celeb dietician Anita Bean has come to your rescue with her new no-nonsense strategy for a proper diet that can help you shun fat forever. Anita, 46, has published Slim Secrets , which gives a safe diet based on scientific facts from her » Read More
23rd September, 2010 - Posted by admin - No Comments
Running might not be the ideal form of exercise, especially if you want to lose weight. Says Greg Brookes, a London-based personal trainer: “Lots of people start running to lose weight and it doesn’t always work - and this is why.” “Fat is one of our body’s favourite sources of energy,” says Brookes. “The more you run, » Read More
7th January, 2010 - Posted by admin - No Comments
Pregnant women who are overweight or obese should not gain more weight than they should, a Saint Louis University obstetrician has said. Recommendations by the Institute of Medicine (IOM) call for fat women to gain more weight than they should. The IOM, a non-governmental, independent, nonprofit organization, provides advice that is designed to improve health to » Read More
6th January, 2010 - Posted by admin - No Comments
They say being married is good for health, especially for men. But as far as women are concerned, it turns out that they’ve to pay a higher price for marriage - extra weight gain. That’s the conclusion of the Australian Longitudinal Study on Women’s Health, a 10-year study from the School of Human Movement Studies at » Read More
5th January, 2010 - Posted by admin - No Comments
The obese who lost some weight by eating less and exercising more bettered their cardiovascular health, says a new study. The results of this two-year study showed that weight loss led to improvement in four key measures of heart and vascular health. They included decreased thickness of heart muscle, improved pumping and relaxation functions of the » Read More