Friday, December 30, 2011

Stories on diet, health, fitness, losing weight . . .

Diet patterns linked with brain health
CBS News
Older people who ate this way had less of the brain shrinkage linked with Alzheimer's disease and scored better on mental and thinking tests than those with poorer diets. Although previous studies have suggested that a heart-healthy diet is also good ...

Shift Work Leads to Poor Diet, Health
ThirdAge
“Obviously, diet is only one component in the pathway to diabetes, but, unlike the metabolic consequences of a deranged circadian rhythm, it is potentially amenable to easy intervention.” But getting people to engage in healthy behaviors can be ...

ThirdAge

Happy New Year 2012: Top 12 Diet & Weight Loss Apps to Help You Shed the Pounds
International Business Times
The intervals will gradually increase, building your fitness level. An audio coach will help you every step of the way. 10. Lose It! (Free) - The Lose It! app makes weight loss a success. Set your weight-goal and then plan a daily caloric limit to help ...

International Business Times

Red Meat Lovers Have More Kidney Cancer
Fox News
That was after accounting for other aspects of diet and lifestyle that could have influenced cancer risks, such as age, race, fruit and vegetable consumption, smoking and drinking and other medical conditions including high blood pressure and diabetes. ...

How do we diet? With apps, healthful foods and smaller portions
Los Angeles Times
Almost as many (75%) considered the health benefits of weight loss. A technique that worked best for the respondents was reminding themselves about the progress they'd made, and those those who did that tended to stay on their diets longer than those ...

Los Angeles Times

Best of weight loss tips in 2011
Times of India
Fasting is an extreme method of short-term weight loss and it will harm your health. Do men lose weight faster than women? Due to higher testosterone levels, men are more prone to build muscle tissue. This gives men an overall higher metabolic rate, ...

Trendy Foods With Serious Health Benefits
Everyday Health
These foods are not difficult to make and are a great way to preserve the bounty from the garden or farmers' market.” For more fitness, diet, and nutrition trends and tips, follow @weightloss on Twitter from the editors of @EverydayHealth.

Nutrient Patterns Tied to Brain Volume, Cognitive Function
Medscape
December 29, 2011 — A study of relatively healthy elderly adults found that those with diets rich in several vitamins or omega-3 fatty acids had better cognitive function and less brain atrophy associated with Alzheimer's disease than their peers with ...

The CareGiver Partnership Offers 3 Dietary Rules for Managing Incontinence
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
They may not only improve your overall health, but also may help you manage incontinence, according to Physician Assistant and Nutritionist Dianna Malkowski. Adopting healthy habits is a common New Year's resolution, but following a few simple dietary ...

How to use diet to supplement your workout routine
EMC Ottawa West
EMC Lifestyle - Men and women who have successfully adopted healthy lifestyles know full well that combining exercise with a healthy diet is the key to getting and staying healthy. Simply visiting the gym won't work if it's not coupled with a healthy ...

Focus on Better Habits Instead of Short-Term Weight Loss in the New Year
Diets In Review (blog)
Although initial weight loss may play a role, the healthy habits you learn while making thosedietary changes may be just as important, if not more so, in achieving long-term health success. Focus on these positive changes instead of the numbers on the ...

Dietary fibre, the missing nutrient in pig production
All about feed
These two challenges sometimes contradict each other, but the balance of a healthypig that is performing at its optimum level is often to be consolidated in the gut. Improving gut health can be assisted with the use of dietary fibre. ...

All about feed

Resolving to eat healthy foods in 2012
USA TODAY
Fortified brands supply and calcium and vitamin D, two nutrients that are lacking in thediets of children, teens, young adults, and women. Just one serving a day of fortified OJ helps boost immunity, iron absorption, and bone health. ...

USA TODAY

In the new year, find it in your heart to get healthy
Your Houston News
As American Heart Association (AHA) reports in this month's issue of its online journal, Circulation, 94 percent of US adults get a “poor” rating in heart health factors, including weight, physical activity,diet, cholesterol, and blood pressure levels ...

Advice wanted: Best (and worst) ways to lose weight?
The Grand Rapids Press - MLive.com
To me, there's no "diet" that has worked. A diet is something you do for a day or a week. Diets fail. I reframed my thinking about food five years ago and adopted ahealthy lifestyle. I removed 82 pounds through a medical weight loss program at first...

The Grand Rapids Press - MLive.com

Daily Fail: Calling Mischa Barton A Healthy-Looking Yo-Yo Dieter Isn't A ...
BlissTree
But their short history of Barton's difficult past is practically unfounded, and it's far from news: Barton hasn't been openly discussing her weight, diet or workout routine. She hasn't been discussing her career, depression, or arrest. ...

BlissTree

Diet But No Gym in 2012
Money High Street
He added: “For those exercise fanatics who commit to the gym and work out on a regular basis it is worth knowing there are life insurance and critical illness policies that reward a healthy lifestyle. “The same also applies for smokers who quit the ...

Study finds keeping diet a secret is better
ABC2 News
Do New Years resolutions to lose weight really work? A new study out of the Cleveland Clinic has a tip to help you meet your goal. Don't tell anybody. Experts say spilling the beans about your weight loss plans could have a detrimental effect. ...

ABC2 News

Detox your body in just 5 days with citrus fruits
Daily News & Analysis
Generalised detox diets not only have numerous health benefits but also leads to drastic (although temporary) weight-loss. Detoxification concepts can be traced back to the ancient Egyptian and Greek idea of auto-intoxication. Some food items consumed ...

Healthy goals
Tulsa World
Since many resolutions revolve around a healthier diet, we asked Mary Ann O'Dell, registered dietitian for Akin's Natural Foods, to identify some easy ways to make healthy diet changes for 2012. 1. Eat more greens:"We know that green food, ...

'Live Raw,' advises Ramona health-food advocate
North County Times
Mimi Kirk of Ramona has written a raw-foods cookbook, "Live Raw: Raw Food Recipes for GoodHealth and Timeless Beauty." Courtesy photo It sounds like a contradiction in terms: a raw-foods cookbook. But those who advocate eating a raw-foods diet do a ...

Kourtney Kardashian sticking to a 'bland' diet so far in her second pregnancy
TheCelebrityCafe.com
Kourtney Kardashian is known for being a healthy eater, which is especially documented on her reality series on E!, Kourtney and Kim Take New York. The mom to 2-year-old Mason Dash Disick is expecting another child with longtime boyfriend Scott Disick, ...

Beyonce's Lemonade Diet: I Tried It During Christmas
LA Weekly (blog)
The cleanse, also known as the lemonade diet, went mainstream when Beyoncé used it in 2006 tolose weight for her role in Dreamgirls. These days, buying 15 lemons, a jug of maple syrup and a canister of cayenne pepper in LA telegraphs exactly what ...

2 Connected Resolutions: Weight Loss and Bladder Control
EmpowHer
The women were randomly assigned to either an intensive six-month weight-loss program of diet, exercise and behavior modification or to a group that received information about diet and exercise but no training to help them change habits, ...

The New York Times Discovers It's Virtually Impossible To Keep Weight Off
Slate Magazine (blog)
The Health at Every Size movement, founded by researcher Linda Bacon, encourages fat people to pursue healthy behaviors (like eating a balanced diet and exercising) for the sake of health and well-being rather than weight loss, an approach that leads ...

Slate Magazine (blog)

How does your bone health stand up?
SouthCoastToday.com
What, then, is a healthy lifestyle? It means different things to different folks, but some things are basic. Diet and exercise count. A diet rich in fruits, vegetables and calcium along with adequate vitamin D is important to maintain bone health. ...

Times Colonist Health Club Challenge: A life-changing experience
Victoria Times Colonist
The 54-year-old Saanich woman was one of three participants in the 2011 Times Colonist HealthClub Challenge. All three plunged into a 12-week program of fitness, nutrition and counselling to put them back on a path of healthy living. ...

Diabetic Diet For People Suffering From Diabetes
EQuicknews
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Resolutions for the New Year
Monterey County Herald
Here is your 2012 financial checklist to post alongside your New Year's resolutions list, which might include "lose 10 pounds," "eat a healthy diet," "get more exercise," "clean out the garage," "go green" and "spend more quality time with family. ...

Mushrooms: A diet must-have
Baltimore Sun
Due to their high water content and fiber, mushrooms make a great weight-loss food choice. They help you to feel full and may have a glucose-lowering effect that also aids with satiety. You can pop them raw as a snack, toss them into salads and soups, ...

Baltimore Sun

Evidence found for brain injury in diet-induced obesity
HealthCanal.com
These interactions influence appetite and food intake and , in most obese people, conspire to prevent permanent weight loss. “Obese individuals,” said Schwartz, “are biologically defending their elevated body weight.” The mechanism for this phenomenon ...

94 pounds lighter, woman plans to keep weight off
La Crosse Tribune
Erik Daily If you're looking to lose weight, look beyond what you eat. Successful diet plans employ a three-part focus: healthy foods, movement and coping mechanisms. You'll probably have some success with a single-component diet, says Andrea Erickson, ...

Celiac ups depression risk for women
UPI.com
28 (UPI) -- Women with celiac disease, a disorder linked to a reaction to eating gluten, have an elevated depression risk even on a gluten-free diet, US researchers say. Josh Smyth, professor of biobehavioral health and medicine at Pennsylvania State ...

Vegan Diet Provides Many Health Benefits : Kevin Trudeau Show
“Properly planned vegan diets are healthy, nutritionally adequate and may provide health benefits in the prevention and treatment of many diseases,” said Vandana Sheth, a registered dietitian and nutrition educator in Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif., and a spokeswoman for the American Dietetic Association. Vegan diets are plant-based ... Research found that the people who follow a vegetarian or vegan lifestyle enjoy a number of health benefits. These include: -Lower cholesterol ...
Kevin Trudeau Show

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By Denise Williamson
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What a Healthy Diet Does to Your Body in 15 Minutes, 12 Hours, 12 ...
By admin
When trying to lose weight, you might be focused on fitting into that sexy black number hanging in your closet. But there are wonderful ... Diet and Fitness > Diet and Healthy Eating > What a Healthy Diet Does to Your Body in 15 Minutes, 12 Hours, 12 Weeks… Posted on December 29, ... After 12 weeks: Many significant health numbers—cholesterol, triglycerides (fat in the blood), blood pressure, glucose and insulin—should begin to, if not completely, normalize. After 6 months: You' ll ...
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Unhealthy Eating as Occupational Hazard
TIME
By Sora Song | @sora_song | December 29, 2011 | + If you've ever sat at your desk scarfing a vending-machine lunch, then you'd probably agree with the authors of a recent editorial in the journal PLoS Medicine, who wrote: “[U]nhealthy eating could ...
TIME

Is this diet healthy? - Yahoo! Answers
Is this diet healthy? So I plan on dieting, the healthy way. No,I'm not starving myself. No, I don't plan on throwing up my meal. But I would like to reduce my food ...
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Organic Diet Weight Loss
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Diet Healthy Lose Weight | The Most Healthy Diet
Effective And Healthy Weight LossThe Paleo Diet: Lose Weight and Get Healthy by Eating the Food You Were Designed to Eat by Loren Cordain (2002) 40.
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