UK Government Advised to Change Alcohol Guidelines
Aug 8, 2009 Author: Mary | Filed under: Diet-Blog
Experts have advised the UK Government to change the guidelines for safe drinking: currently 2-3 units per day for women, and 3-4 units per day for men.
Liver specialist, Dr Nick Sheron (Alcohol Health Alliance UK), says the old guidelines were based on sound research, which stated a weekly limit of 21 units per week for men, and 14 units per week for women, and emphasised the need for alcohol-free days.
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Slide Into Debt Could Bring Wider Waistline
Aug 8, 2009 Author: Mary | Filed under: MedicineNet
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FRIDAY, Aug. 7 (HealthDay News) — Obesity rates may increase along with rising financial debt, German researchers suggest.In their study, Eva Munster and her colleagues at the University of Mainz tracked the weight of more than 9,000 people.They found that while 11% of those who were not in debt were classified as obese, a full quarter of those who were in debt met the medical criteria for obesity.Writing in the early online edition of BMC Public Health, the researchers say they took into account the income of the participants, and the link between debt and obesity “was …
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Digestive Hormone Helps Regulate Your Blood Sugar
Aug 8, 2009 Author: Susan | Filed under: Wellness Resources
New research shows that a digestive hormone known as Cholecystokinin (CCK) actually signals to your brain in a way that your brain signals to your liver to stop releasing sugar into your blood – regardless of insulin levels.
CCK is typically elevated following a meal higher in protein or fat, giving a full signal. However, this research shows a new problem called CCK resistance (like insulin resistance), meaning that if you overeat fat and raise CCK too much, then this nifty way of lowering blood sugar is disrupted.
This research is interesting because it shows that something happening in your gut is directly regulating your blood sugar. This is a similar finding to that of adiponectin, meaning that a hormone produced in your fat (adiponectin) is also regulating blood sugar by helping insulin.
This type of new information …
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Freshman 15: College Weight Gain Is Real
Jul 28, 2009 Author: Mary | Filed under: WebMD
Jennifer Warner
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Louise Chang, MD
July 28, 2009 — Students headed off to college this fall beware: The infamous freshman 15 is for real.
A new study shows that nearly one in four freshmen gain at least 5% of their body weight, an average of about 10 pounds, during their first semester.
“Almost one quarter of students gained a significant amount of weight during their first semester of college,” researchers Heidi J. Wengreen and Cara Moncur of the department of nutrition and food sciences at Utah State University in Logan write in Nutrition Journal.
“This study provides further evidence that the transition to college life is a critical period of risk for weight gain, and college freshmen are an important target population for obesity prevention strategies.”
College Weight Gain Common
Although other studies have documented the phenomenon of the freshman 15 weight gain, researchers say few have examined the changes …
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The Health And Weight Loss Benefits of Magnesium
Jul 28, 2009 Author: Susan | Filed under: LifeTipsMagnesium is an important agent in so many physiological processes that its uses as a supplement range from depression to bone, muscle, and joint strengthening to blood vessels protection. The bone, muscle, and joint part seems to be the reason for your prescription.
Recent research in France showed the role of magnesium in the regulation of thyroid hormones, insulin, estrogen, testosterone, brain chemicals such as dopamine, catecholamines, serotonin, GABA, and body’s electrolytes.
Magnesium also controls the turnover of potassium and calcium in the body so deficit of magnesium causes calcium to be lost with the urine and deposited in the kidneys, arteries, joints, brain, where it is not welcomed.
Magnesium protects the cell from poisonous metals like aluminum, mercury, lead, cadmium, beryllium and nickel, which can contribute to Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s diseases multiple sclerosis, and learning retardation.
Magnesium glycinate is considered the preferred source of magnesium. …
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Snoozing May Help Women Shed Baby Weight
Jul 28, 2009 Author: Mary | Filed under: MedicineNetBy Karen Pallarito
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FRIDAY, July 24 (HealthDay News) — New moms who can’t zip up their pre-pregnancy jeans might not be catching enough zzzs.Getting a good night’s sleep, in fact, may be just as important as diet and exercise for shedding baby weight.One study of new mothers found that those who slept five or fewer hours a day six months after giving birth were three times as likely to hold onto those extra pounds as were women who got seven or more hours of sleep. Short sleep duration “stood out as an independent risk factor” for weight retention, said Erica P. Gunderson, a research scientist and epidemiologist at Kaiser Permanente in Oakland, Calif., who worked on the study.For many women, postpartum weight retention is a serious issue because it can lead to long-term weight gain. Some studies show that up to 20% of women retain at least 11 pounds at six to 18 months after giving birth, Finnish researchers reported. Lifestyle …
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Eating Habits in the Obese May Echo Drug Addicts’ Patterns
Jul 24, 2009 Author: Mary | Filed under: MedicineNetBy Amanda Gardner
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WEDNESDAY, July 22 (HealthDay News) — When it comes to weight control, it might not be the kind of snack that matters, but who eats it.When researchers gave similarly “sinful” snacks to obese and non-obese women, the healthy-weight women wanted less of the treat over time, but obese women kept wanting more.”Obese and non-obese women respond to high-energy, high-density snacks in different ways,” said Jennifer Temple, lead author of the study, which appears in the August issue of the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. “For us, this underscores a need for really doing detailed studies comparing obese and non-obese women in terms of how they respond to food to try to understand things that work better to improve healthy eating.”"You can’t take what you see in non-obese women and think it will automatically have the same effect in obese women,” added Temple, an assistant professor in exercise and nutrition science at the University at Buffalo, in New York.Such information could one day be useful in tailoring dieting strategies for different people.According to background information in the study, only 10% of people who lose weight through dieting and exercise manage to keep that weight off for five years.Scientists have postulated that one reason for the high failure rate is that people feel deprived of their favorite foods and end up …
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Instinct Diet Review
Jul 23, 2009 Author: Mary | Filed under: WebMD
Kathleen M. Zelman, MPH, RD, LD
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The Instinct Diet: What It Is
Understanding the five built-in food instincts that help control your eating habits is the secret of The Instinct Diet. Once you understand your eating instincts, the book says, you can learn how to control them — and lose up to 15 pounds in eight weeks.
The Instinct Diet focuses on typical problems that undermine dieters, like hunger, cravings, and feelings of deprivation. By making simple changes in your lifestyle, you can become more satisfied with the foods you eat and reduce cravings for high-calorie foods, says author Susan Roberts, PhD.
The Instinct Diet is based on more than 20 years of clinical research done by Roberts, a respected Tufts University nutrition researcher. In addition to her own studies, Roberts did a comprehensive review of the scientific evidence on weight loss.
The book aims …
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Young Black, Hispanic Women Tend to Develop ‘Love Handles’
Jul 23, 2009 Author: Mary | Filed under: MedicineNet
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TUESDAY, July 21 (HealthDay News) — Black and Hispanic women in their 20s tend to accumulate more fat in their midsection than their male and older counterparts, possibly putting them at a greater risk of developing type 2 diabetes, new research suggests.The study, by researchers at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem, N.C., found black and Hispanic young adults tended to pack on both visceral adipose tissue (VAT), the fat found in the abdominal cavity around internal organs, and subcutaneous abdominal tissue (SAT), the visible, pinchable fat known as “love …
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Weight-Loss Enzyme Identified
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TUESDAY, July 21 (HealthDay News) — Reducing levels of a brain enzyme may curb appetite and boost energy, thereby helping people to control their weight, says a new study. Prolylcarboxypeptidase (PRCP) regulates the alpha-melanocyte stimulating hormone (alpha-MSH), a body chemical that reduces hunger while revving up the body’s energy levels. If PRCP enzyme is blocked, alpha-MSH levels stay high and keep appetite in check. When researchers at Yale School of Medicine in New Haven, Conn., blocked PRCP in mice, the rodents lost weight, maintained their energy levels and reduced …
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