Football fans get FFITer and lose weight

An initiative that helps male football fans feel better and live a healthier lifestyle by losing weight, taking more exercise, and improving their diet has been a resounding success, according to new research published in The Lancet and BMC Public Health. The Football Fans in Training programme (FFIT) has run for three seasons at Scottish Professional Football League (SPFL) clubs. The research, led by a team at the University of Glasgow, UK, shows that FFIT has proved extremely popular with men, and its effectiveness and value for money...

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High-protein diets, like the popular Dr. Dukan diet, increase the risk of developing kidney disease in rats, study suggests

An experiment done in rats by scientists at the University of Granada, Spain, shows a high-protein diet increases the chance of developing kidney stones and other renal diseases. High-protein diets, like the popular Dr. Dukan diet, increase the long-term risk of developing kidney disease and have a negative effect on renal urinary and morphological markers, the study suggests. What's more, they may promote...

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Diet beverages no solution for weight loss

Overweight adults who believe drinking diet soda will help them lose weight, or keep weight off, should think again. Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health who examined national patterns in adult diet beverage consumption and calorie intake found that overweight and obese adults who drink diet beverages consume more calories from food than obese or overweight adults who drink regular soda or other sugary beverages....

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Study points to 'growing class gap' in US teen obesity

Although recent reports suggest the childhood obesity epidemic in the US may have abated somewhat, a new study finds that the overall trend masks growing socioeconomic disparities, with teens in poorer families showing increased rates of obesity. In August 2013, researchers reported how for the first time in 30 years, in all but one state of the US, obesity rates are holding steady. Meanwhile, also in August 2013, the Centers for Disease Control...

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Will 2014 Be the Year That the Paleo Diet Goes Mainstream?

The annual Google Zietgist list shows the top search terms each year, and this year the Paleo diet took the prize as the most googled diet term of the year.  To those of us that champion eating this way, this is FANTASTIC news.  I love hearing that more and more people are becoming curious about the way that humans are supposed to eat.  Even better,  media outlets like NPR, the Huffington Post, and even the skeptical  Daily...

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New Study to Explore Intervention to Help Reduce Weight in People With Schizophrenia

A group of researchers, led by Professor Richard Holt at the University of Southampton, are to investigate whether people with schizophrenia or first episode psychosis are able to reduce their weight through a structured education program. People with schizophrenia are two to three times more likely to be overweight or obese. As well as a range of adverse physical health consequences, such as diabetes and heart disease, weight gain may be an important factor that stops people taking their antipsychotic medication....

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The God Diet: Can It Really Perform Weight Loss Miracles?

The God Diet is the latest weight-loss craze, one that turns to a clean-eating strategy that stretches back thousands of years. The diet is based on two passages of the Bible pertaining to Daniel. In the first passage, Daniel fasted and ate only vegetables and drank only water to set himself apart for God. Later he fasts again, cutting out all meat, wine, and rich foods from his diet. Faithful followers who turned to the Bible for moral direction...

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Losing weight: Lifestyle changes trump any diet

What's the best diet for maintaining a healthy weight and warding off chronic diseases? Is it a low-carb diet, a high-carb diet, an all-vegetable diet, a no-vegetable diet? Researchers say you'd be better off just forgetting the word diet, according to an editorial published August 20 in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). Two researchers Sherry Pagoto of the University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester, Mass.,...

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Study Shows Keys to Successful Long-Term Weight Loss Maintenance

Researchers from The Miriam Hospital have published one of the first studies of its kind to follow weight loss maintenance for individuals over a 10-year period. The results show that long-term weight loss maintenance is possible if individuals adhere to key health behaviors. The study is published in the January 2014 issue of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine. J. Graham Thomas, Ph.D., is the lead author on a 10-year observational...

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Cholesterol Study Shows Algal Extracts May Counter Effects of High Fat Diets

Health Enhancement Products, Inc., in conjunction with Wayne State University's Department of Nutrition and Food Science in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, announces the publication of a scientific article in the Journal of Nutrition & Metabolism, "ProAlgaZyme sub-fraction improves the lipoprotein profile of hypercholesterolemic hamsters, while inhibiting production of betaine, carnitine, and choline metabolites." The...

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Acupuncture of the ear could hold weight loss key according to South Korean study

They found pricking five key places could help slash a person’s body mass index -a method that targets just one spot could cut it by a similar amount Fat people can lose weight by having acupuncture on their ears, experts claim. They found that pricking in five key places could help slash a person’s body mass index by 6.1%. A method that targets just one spot on the ear could cut it by 5.7%, researchers in South Korea found. They said: “The...

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Slow eating may reduce hunger but not calorie intake

Previous studies suggest that eating speed may affect how many calories the body consumes. But new research suggests that eating speed, rather than caloric intake, may have more of an impact on hunger suppression.   This is according to a study published in the Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. Investigators from the Department of Kinesiology at Texas Christian University say that previous research has mainly analyzed...

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How to Lose Weight as Fast as Possible With Zero Hunger

There are many ways to lose a lot of weight in a short amount of time. However, most of them require you to be hungry and unsatisfied. If you don’t have iron willpower, then hunger will cause you to give up on these plans quickly. The method I’m about to describe will: Kill your appetite. Make you lose weight fast, without being hungry. Improve your health at the same time. Rule 1 – Eliminate Sugars and Starches The most important part is to...

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7 Ways to Get Fit Fast: A Week of 10-minute Workouts for Year End Toning

You’ve got one week left to meet your 2013 New Year’s resolutions! No problem if you fell off the wagon sometime back in, oh, February. There’s no reason you can’t get fit(ter) by NYE! We searched far and wide for our favorite 10-minute toning routines and came back with these stellar seven. Do one each day between now and New Year’s and you’ll start 2014 stronger and slimmer than before! 10-minute Butt Lift with Rebecca Louise: The first 8-minutes of this lower-body routine are prop-free. The last two require an exercise ball and a resistance...

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