Lack of Exercise & Causes of Dementia, Alzheimer's | Anti-Aging Blog
April 21, 2012
New research suggests that senior citizens with too much extra weight may well be at higher risk of loss of dementia.
Natural Diet Plans & Losing Weight Naturally | Natural Health Blog
March 29, 2012
Approximately one in three adults in France is overweight, and the rate is rising. Just between 2006 and 2009 the amount of overweight people in France rose by an astounding 11 percent, according to a 2009 study conducted by the National Health Research Institute.
High Protein vs Low Fat Diets | Secret To Weight Loss Health Blog
March 1, 2012
A recent study found that people on high fat diets gain less weight than people on high protein diets with equivalent calorie content -- but low-protein eaters store more than 90 percent of their weight as fat.
How to Burn Fat | Weight Loss Health Blog
February 21, 2012
Brown fat is body fat that burns energy, as opposed to the more typical white fat, which just stores the calories we have consumed. Scientists have discovered a hormone that appears to alter white fat, making it behave similarly to brown fat and increase the amount of energy we burn.
Nutrition & Fats | Natural Weight Loss Newsletter
February 13, 2012
When it comes to nutrition, the medical community and so-called scientific studies may be the greatest spreaders of myth and misinformation in the world today. And now they're at it again.
Meal Portions & Natural Weight Control | Health Podcast
January 20, 2012
Obesity statistics in the US convey a sad story: more than two-thirds of all adults over the age of 20 now qualify as overweight or obese. Yet, in spite of the endless array of available diet programs, products, and the constant media coverage highlighting the dangers of being overweight, we keep getting fatter and fatter, with obesity rates still on the climb. While many blame a willpower deficit for the failure of 95 percent of all diet attempts, a series of new studies has shed some light on a few other possible reasons that all the diet knowledge in the universe doesn't seem to be making a dent.
Children Taken Away For Weight Problems | Health Blog
January 19, 2012
Are people whose children have become grossly overweight unfit parents? That is one of the questions brought up by the recent removal of an Ohio third grader from his home by authorities.
Obesity Statistics & Women's Health | Natural Health Blog
January 12, 2012
New research has found that the U.K. was determined to be home to the highest number of obese women in all of Europe. But it still can't top the U.S.
Meal Portions & Natural Weight Control | Health Blog
December 27, 2011
According to a series of studies just published in the Journal of Consumer Research, people often opt for larger portion sizes because it makes them feel more important to do so.
Cell Transplantation Study | Alternative Weight Loss Blog
December 6, 2011
A new study out of Harvard University came to the surprising conclusion that it may indeed be possible to trigger new cell growth in parts of the brain by injecting the brain with healthy cells.
Weight Management | Natural Health Newsletter
November 14, 2011
A recent obesity study out of Australia has concluded that when people lose weight, their metabolism automatically slows down and they experience hormonal changes that increase appetite. The researchers theorized that these changes, not portion size, the types of food eaten, or lack of exercise, etc., explain why most dieters so quickly gain back what they lost.
Eating Disorders Articles | Men's Health Blog
November 12, 2011
Using data compiled from 21,743 men and 24,608 women who took a self-assessment of their health status, the scientists discovered that binge eating was almost as big an issue for men as it is for women -- about two men for every three women.
Weight Management & Control | Health Podcast
November 11, 2011
A recent obesity study out of Australia has concluded that when people lose weight, their metabolism automatically slows down and they experience hormonal changes that increase appetite. The researchers theorized that these changes, not portion size, the types of food eaten, or lack of exercise, etc., explain why most dieters so quickly gain back what they lost. Or to put it in simpler terms; being overweight is not your fault. It's biology.
Children's Health, Diet & Nutrition | Natural Health Blog
September 29, 2011
FoodCorps is an offshoot of Americorps -- the evolution of the old VISTA program -- will train a team of idealistic young adults to go into low-income communities to make a difference in how and what people eat.
Weight Management & Natural Weight Control | Health Blog
September 27, 2011
According to a new study that took place at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, North Carolina, cardiovascular exercise was found to burn the fat around the midsection off more effectively than a weight training workout -- and in particular visceral fat, the dangerous fat parked around your internal organs.
Public Policy | Natural Health Blog
September 17, 2011
Some experts calling on the federal government to start taxing unhealthy foods. Although debatable whether such a tax would actually work, the experts do raise a few good points.
Natural Anti-Aging, Diet & Nutrition | Natural Health Blog
August 23, 2011
To date, the research has found no undisclosed food, chant, or medicine responsible for the exceptionally long lives of centenarians. In fact, a recent study suggests that those who live the longest probably can eat whatever they want, forego exercise, and hit the bottle.
Brain Health | Natural Health Newsletter
July 25, 2011
Seemingly unrelated external events or circumstances can literally alter our brains for good or ill -- sometimes permanently, unless somehow deliberately changed back.
Weight Loss Procedures | Natural Health Blog
June 2, 2011
A new study at the University of Colorado in Aurora has found that liposuction is not permanent. One year post-surgery, for all of the women in the study, all of the fat that had been removed -- an average of 5.8 pounds per woman -- had come back. But curiously, it did not return to its original site on the body. Instead of on the thighs or lower abdomen from where it had originally been removed, the fat was redistributed to the subjects' upper abdomens or around the shoulders and triceps.
Children's Health | Natural Health Blog
April 23, 2011
A recent study that took place at Children's Hospital Boston found that formula-fed babies who are started on solid food before they are 4 months old have a greater risk of obesity than infants started on solids between 4 and 6 months of age. In addition, multiple studies have shown that baby fat in kids presages obesity in adulthood and can set off a variety of health issues, including enlargement of heart chambers.
