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Exercise keeps dangerous visceral fat away a year after weight loss (w/ Video)

Medicine & Health / Health

created Oct 29, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

A study conducted by exercise physiologists in the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Department of Human Studies finds that as little as 80 minutes a week of aerobic or resistance training helps not only to prevent ...


Energy gap useful tool for successful weight loss maintenance strategy

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 04, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Americans continue to get heavier. Most weight control methods short of bariatric surgery are generally considered ineffective in preventing obesity or reducing weight. The term energy gap was coined to estimate the change ...


Alternate-Day Fasting Shows Promise for Obese Dieters

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 04, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (7) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Restricting daily calorie intake is a common plan to help obese and overweight people slim down to healthier weights. But the regime requires a daily 15 to 40 percent calorie reduction, which makes sticking ...


Pushing the brain to find new pathways

Medicine & Health / Research

created Nov 17, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Until recently, scientists believed that, following a stroke, a patient had about six months to regain any lost function. After that, patients would be forced to compensate for the lost function by focusing on their remaining ...


New study shows linkage between teen girls' weight and sexual behavior

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created Oct 29, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (4) | comments 1

A University of Pittsburgh study sheds new light on the relationship between race, body weight and sexual behavior among adolescent girls. The results suggest that a girl's ethnicity and her actual weight or perception of ...


Women can quit smoking and control weight gain

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 19, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Many women don't quit smoking because they are afraid of gaining weight. That's because nicotine suppresses the appetite and boosts a smoker's metabolism.


New tool promises more accurate antimalarial drug dosing

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Oct 29, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Scientists at LSTM have developed a tool to support the development of appropriate age-based dosing regimens for malaria drugs. Weight-based dosing is challenging in many malaria endemic countries because access to formal ...


Health-centered weight control method shows promise

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 04, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Most weight-control strategies emphasize energy-restricted diets and increased physical activity - and most are not effective over the long term. In a study of a "weight-acceptance" intervention, published in the November ...


Playing sport up to the end of pregnancy is healthy for the baby and the mother

Playing sport up to the end of pregnancy is healthy for the baby and the mother

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 12, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Contrary to more conservative customs, exercising up to the end of pregnancy has no harmful effect on the weight or size of the foetus. This is what has been indicated in a study carried out by researchers ...


Some obese people perceive body size as OK, dismiss need to lose weight

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created Nov 17, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Some obese people misperceive that their body size is normal and think they don't need to lose weight, according to research presented at the American Heart Association's Scientific Sessions 2009.



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