Why Fat-Free Diets Do Not Make Us Thin

For several decades, Americans have been told to eat less fat to maintain a healthy weight. Take a look at any supermarket shelf and the effects of this advice are obvious – nearly every original food product has an adjacent low-fat or fat-free counterpart. However, recent research suggests that eating a diet deficient in fats [...]

Control Your Asthma by Controlling Your Weight

In the United States, up to 15 percent of children and 30 percent of adults are considered to be medically obese. It stands as a rapidly increasing epidemic, as many millions more can be termed as overweight. This is bad enough in and of itself. But a study from the Kaiser Permanente Center for Heath [...]

Facts about Fiber

Although we are frequently advised to eat a diet that contains more fiber, there is very little general understanding as to exactly what fiber is and the function it performs in the human body. Fiber performs an important function in the body, one that has an important influence on health. An understanding of what it [...]

Correlation between Obesity and Pediatric Epilepsy

Obesity is defined as being seriously overweight. This does not mean a few extra pounds, but rather overweight to a degree that it begins to seriously impact an individual’s health. Obesity in anyone is a matter for concern and in the West the incidence of obesity is rising. Childhood obesity is particularly concerning because not [...]

New Studies Confirm the Importance of Leptin for Weight Control

The World Health Organization has officially classified obesity as a disease, and in the developed world obesity is considered to be the greatest health problem of modern times. Obesity is not just simply a question of being overweight. It is known that the condition can cause many health problems including heart attacks and stroke, high [...]

The Annual Cost of the Obesity Epidemic

Obesity is no longer something that hides in the fog, waiting to be discussed over quiet dinners in shadowy corners. More than 26 percent of Americans are obese, with an additional 40 percent considered overweight, and the numbers have yet to level off. The latest research, published in the journal Health Affairs and presented at [...]

Do Men Have an Advantage over Women When It Comes to Losing Weight?

Weight loss is an obsession for an overwhelming number of Americans, largely due to the fact that roughly 70% of the population is considered overweight or obese. It is only natural that the population has become obsessed with an epidemic of such staggering proportions. Not only are there associated psychological issues such as embarrassment and [...]

Factors Impacting Your Inability to Lose Weight

There are few things more dispiriting and de-motivating than endeavoring to commence a vigorous exercise regime, adopting a healthy lifestyle and well-managed diet and … stubbornly refusing to shed any excess weight. While the experience of ‘weight loss plateau’ is a familiar one to anyone who has attempted to work off unwanted weight, there may [...]

Naturally Resistant Starch

NRS: What Is It? Naturally resistant starch can be defined as any type of starch that escapes digestion in the small intestine of healthy individuals. It is considered to be the third main type of dietary fiber, and it assists greatly in healthy natural digestion. It is found naturally in such foods as bananas, beans, [...]

Breakfast: The Most Important Meal of the Day

Breakfast Breakfast is the first meal of the day, and is a combination of the words break and fast, referring to the fact that since you have physically fasted since the previous day’s last meal, you are breaking the fast by eating at the start of a new day. While breakfast meals vary around the [...]

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