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Weight loss: Diet doesn’t matter a lot

Posted: March 5th 2009 By editor1         under: Health News     Tags: , , , , , , ,

A new study says that no matter whether you are on low fat or low carb diet, they don’t seem to have any effect on weight loss if you don’t burn as much calories as you consume. The study has been published in the Journal Medicinewith

These new findings remind us of the Age of Enlightenment and the law of conversation of energy the concept that has lost now in this fad-diet world.

According to which all diets have not been created as equal. Frank Sacks, who is a professor at Harvard School of Public Health, led that study and he says: “We have found in this study that diets are not simply about losing weight.”

Cutting Calories Matter, Not Diet Type; Scientists Say

Posted: March 2nd 2009 By editor1         under: Health News     Tags: , , , , ,

A new study published in New England Journal of Medicine led by Harvard School of Public Health and Pennington Biomedical Research Center in Louisiana, scientists said that the diet type does not matter but the calorie cut. The study was published in the issue published on Thursday.

This research involved 811 overweight adults who were observed for 2 years. They were randomly put on four diets; one for each. These diets contained different levels of protein, carbohydrates and fats.

Director of the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, which funded the research, Dr. Elizabeth Nabel said, “The hidden secret is it doesn’t matter if you focus on low-fat or low-carb”. She also said that exercise is the key with limiting the calories and burning off more calories.

Can Antioxidants slow ageing

Posted: December 3rd 2008 By editor1         under: Beauty, Food and Fitness     Tags: , , , ,

There are a lot of such diets and creams available these days as claim to defeat ageing with their antioxidant constituents.

But according to a new study, antioxidant may do nothing good against ageing.

In their experiments on Nematode worms, the scientists gave higher antioxidant powers to avoid tissue damaging to them, but they found that despite doing that they couldn’t live longer.

Researchers from University College London say, there is not any clear evidence that show antioxidant can slow ageing.

Antioxidants have been hyped a lot in the health and beauty industries and people have been trusting in them because of this hype, but antioxidants age-fighting properties have been based on a theory that was presented in 1956.

Emotional Eating issues and ways to end it

Posted: November 3rd 2008 By editor1         under: Food and Fitness     Tags: , , , ,

If you consider yourself an emotional eater, you really need to look at some emotional eating issues in order to avoid it.

To stop emotional eating, here are some issues that you need to consider.

Do you think you are an Emotional Eater?

You may have an emotional eating problem if you are struggling with losing weight and diets don’t seem to work in this connection.

A lot of people have to struggle with this and they use food to tackle difficult stresses of life. Results of many studies show that more than 75% of overeating is because of emotional reasons and sometimes this sort of tackling turns into a habit that is hard to break.

Boredom, anxiety, depression, stress, hopelessness, anger and even excitement are some emotions that emotional eaters try to deal with using food.

If you have known this fact that you are an emotional eater, you need to think about a lot of emotional eating issues such as:

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