Skip Breakfast, Get Fat

Jul 17, 2009 Author: Mary | Filed under: WebMD

Brain Craves High-Calorie Foods When You Skip Breakfast, Study Shows

By
Kelli Miller Stacy
WebMD Health News

Reviewed by
Louise Chang, MD

June 15, 2009 — Skipping breakfast is often a big no-no if you are trying to lose or maintain weight because it leads to high-calorie cravings later. Now researchers think they know why that happens.

Forgoing the first meal of the day actually tricks your brain into thinking you want higher-calorie foods — foods that can make you fat, or at least increase your risk for weight gain.
A team from Imperial College London presented the news at the Endocrine Society’s 91st annual meeting in Washington, D.C. The researchers used a scan called functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to look at how feeding behaviors affected the brain’s “reward” center, which plays a role in pleasures and the body’s response to them.
Functional MRI allows doctors to look at how blood flow increases in response to brain activity.
The study involved 20 healthy, non-obese people. They skipped breakfast before the fMRI exam. During …
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Detox Diets: Purging The Myths

Jul 17, 2009 Author: Mary | Filed under: WebMD

‘Cleansing’ diets may be worthless or even dangerous, experts warn.

By
Richard Sine
WebMD Feature

Reviewed by
Louise Chang, MD

Molly Davis lives a healthy lifestyle, but she decided recently that she wanted to help her body “perform optimally.” What she needed, she thought, was a flush of her system. So the Atlanta-based advertising director chose what might be the most popular “detox” regimen, the Master Cleanse.
For 10 days, she ate no solid food. Instead, she drank at least eight glasses a day of a concoction combining lemon juice, water, maple syrup, and cayenne pepper. In the mornings, she drank two full quarts of salt water. In the evenings, she drank a laxative tea.

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Walking Workout

Jul 17, 2009 Author: Mary | Filed under: About

Kick Your Walking Workout Up a Notch

By Jennifer R. Scott, About.com

Updated: November 10, 2008

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Walking is a great form of exercise for nearly anyone. It doesn’t require any special equipment, most people can do it regardless of their current weight, and you can do it anywhere.

But with this convenience comes a catch … if you want to keep losing weight, you probably won’t be able to keep following the same routine every day.

Since our bodies tend to adapt fairly quickly to any form of exercise we do regularly, routine workouts can actually keep us from losing weight…

So, if you see your weight loss stall — or you don’t feel very tired anymore when you’re done — you need to add some variety to your walking routine. Try one of these tricks: