Posts Tagged ‘health news’

Cereal Killers

Pouring yourself a bowl of yummy, crunchy cereal is a fast way to fuel up in the a.m.—and research shows that people who do so also consume more produce and whole grains during the day. The catch: You have to pick the right cereal. A sugar-packed bowlful can lull your metabolism back to sleep, and [...]

Going Overboard on Weight Loss: Pro-Eating Disorder Sites

The internet, unarguably one of the marvels of the twentieth century. It has changed the way we communicate, do research, shop and get the news. But it is both a blessing and a curse, allowing us to video chat with friends in foreign places and learn about the latest news on the BP oil spill, [...]

What is a protein

As a food group, the proteins in food and therefore your diet are a key player in the growth and repair of the various tissues that make up our bodies.
The unique protein strands that are found in human muscle help us to grow from children to adults, and, once we are grown, proteins in food [...]

The Scoop on Protein Supplements

It seems everywhere you turn these days, including the grocery aisles, new protein supplements are cropping up, some of them almost promising to make you look like a bodybuilder overnight.
Now Consumer Reports (CR) tells us that some popular protein supplements might contain unacceptably high levels of heavy metals. The CR report, which included results from [...]

Drug Makers Will Share Data From Failed Alzheimer’s Trials

Drug makers‘ attempts to find treatments for Alzheimer’s disease have produced scant results and a long string of busts. Now a broad effort is under way to learn something from those failures.
A group of major pharmaceutical companies will share pooled data from failed clinical trials in an attempt to figure out what is going wrong [...]

Common blood pressure drug ‘raises cancer risk’

A blood pressure drug used by millions of adults could be increasing their risk of cancer, a study has revealed.
The use of ARB drugs to treat hypertension is associated with a ‘modestly increased risk’ of new cancer diagnosis, scientists say.
Some 15million prescriptions are written for the drugs every year in the UK [...]

Consumer Reports Weighs In On Chicken Nuggets

Anything that is breaded and fried is bound not to be good for you, but in the case of chicken nuggets—a staple in many households with young children—there can also be the additional unhealthy amount of fat and sodium. Consumer Reports, the nonstop reviewer of all the things we use on [...]

Duke Diet

The Duke Diet is a self-care plan comprised of four components: diet, fitness, behavioral strategies, and medical expertise.
The Duke Diet is an online weight-loss program based on the established Duke Diet and Fitness Center Residential Program founded in 1969 in Durham, North Carolina. While it can cost in the neighborhood of $7,000 (plus accommodations) for [...]

How to get rid of Cellulite

That way you get rid of cellulite

8 glasses of water a day. You can drink even more water. In the summer, we are  a lot of fluid loss. So we are drink water everyday
Tea, coffee and caffeinated drinks like cola should consume less.
Stay away from alcohol and cigarettes.
Do not use [...]

Do Women Have a Hard-Wired Aversion to Obesity?

I think we have all long known what John Gray put down in words in his bestseller, Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus: There are differences between the sexes, not just physically, but psychologically. And a new study being published in the May issue of Personality Individual Differences reinforces [...]