Weight Loss Surgery Shows Potential to Reduce Risk of Diabetes and Heart Attacks
Bariatric surgery or weight loss surgery has shown to be effective against Type 2 diabetes and heart attacks, revealed a new study.Bariatric surgery delivered in routine clinical practice in the UK is...
View ArticleMothers Watch the Way You Discuss About Weight Loss With Your Daughters
It's better for mothers to discuss with their daughters about their own weight concerns to encourage them to lose weight, revealed a new study.While discussing issues of diet and weight with their...
View ArticleScientists Break the Most Common Myth Associated With Weight Loss
There are 3,500 calories in a pound of fat. So the most popular rule states if you create a deficit of that many calories, then you shed a pound. However, a recent study has shown there's more to the...
View ArticleThe Next Big Advance in Dieting and Weight Loss
Precision weight loss is the next big advance in dieting and weight loss. Experts say that the use of personal genetic data to customize physical activity plans and diets will result in successful...
View ArticleLow-Sodium Diet May Be Harmful For Heart Failure Patients
For years, doctors have advised heart failure patients to reduce their salt intake as a way to preserve their health. But a new study suggests that reducing salt intake may be harmful and potentially...
View ArticleFather`s Diet Affects the RNA of His Sperms, and Thus the Offspring
While we all know that an expectant mother's diet during pregnancy can have lasting effects on their children's health, two recent studies have revealed that a father's diet affects the levels of...
View ArticleLow-Calorie Diet Produce Factors With Anti-Diabetic Properties In The Blood
A new study found that factors in the blood from calorie-restricted rats can modify energy-producing mitochondria within the insulin-producing cells that regulate blood sugar levels. This has a...
View ArticleSocial Networks as Important as Diet And Exercise
A new study from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill reveals that the more social ties people have at an early age, the better their health is at the beginnings and ends of their lives....
View ArticleHigh-Fat DASH Diet Lowers Blood Pressure And Triglycerides
The Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) diet is designed to treat or prevent high blood pressure. The diet is high in fruits, vegetables and low in fat dairy foods. DASH diet significantly...
View ArticleMexican Immigrant Children's Diet Less Nutritious Than Their Mothers
A new study by Penn State sociologists found that the diet of Mexican immigrant children in the US is different from what their mothers eat and that may mean kids are trading in the generally healthy...
View ArticleDepression and Binge Eating More Prominent Among Weight Loss Surgery Patients
Post-operative complications of bariatric surgery were found to be mental health problems like depression and binge eating disorders, revealed a new study.A study published in iJAMA/i showed that...
View ArticleLow-Sugar Diet Helps Reverse Liver Damage Faster
Liver damage caused by a diet high in fat, sugar and cholesterol may be difficult to reverse even if diet is generally improved, says a new study. The research, published in iPLOS ONE/i by scientists...
View ArticleAge-old Scurvy Diagnosed in a Baby on Only Almond Milk Diet
A very rare disease dating back to centuries has resurfaced on an 11-month-old baby in Spain. The baby has contracted Scurvy, a condition caused due to vitamin C deficiency when his formula was...
View ArticleDiet Rich in Fiber may Reduce Lung Disease
Fiber-rich diet was found to cut the risk of developing lung disease, finds research published in iAnnals of the American Thoracic Society/i. Analyzing data from the National Health and Nutrition...
View ArticleWomen Can Avoid BPA-Associated Reproductive Problems With a Soy-Rich Diet
A soy-rich diet may protect women who are undergoing infertility treatment from poor success rates linked to bisphenol A exposure, revealed a new study. Bisphenol A (BPA) is an endocrine-disrupting...
View ArticleCholesterol Levels Improve With Weight Loss and Healthy Fat-Rich Diet
In the United States, 28% of adults over 40 of age use lipid-lowering drugs. Lifestyle changes that promote weight loss and reducing consumption of saturated fat have been associated with reducing...
View ArticleEating Fruits and Vegetables Linked to Weight Loss
A trip to the supermarket could sometimes be tedious, but one looks at the fresh produce section sticked with a wide array of colorful fruits and vegetables, is definitely a mood booster. . If the...
View ArticleHigh Fiber Diet May Help Reduce Breast Cancer Risk
Teenage girls who eat more high-fiber foods- especially fruits and vegetables- may have significantly lower breast cancer risk than those who eat less dietary fiber, says a new large-scale study led...
View ArticleEven a Low-Salt Diet can Raise Resting Blood Pressure
Scientists report that in the face of a disrupted circadian rhythm, a low-salt diet and a hormone known to constrict blood vessels have the same unhealthy result: elevated resting blood pressure and...
View ArticleWhen High-Fat Diet Can Alter Gene Function
High-fat diet during pregnancy and lactation leads to epigenetic changes in the offspring. These changes affect metabolic pathways regulated by the gut hormone GIP, whereby the adult offspring are...
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