Wednesday, July 10, 2013

Cottage Cheese Helps Weight Loss

Cottage Cheese Helps Weight Loss: In order to lose weight, eating low-calorie protein is a must. Protein offers sustained energy, satiates your hunger, and curbs sugar cravings. Choosing low-calorie, low-fat protein sources is a must and while Greek yogurt has gained a lot of recognition, don't leave out the unsung hero of the protein world — cottage cheese. Here are some ways this simple food can help you drop pounds.

Saturday, July 6, 2013

Weight loss improves memory and alters brain activity in overweight women

Weight loss improves memory and alters brain activity in overweight women: Memory improves in older, overweight women after they lose weight by dieting, and their brain activity actually changes in the regions of the brain that are important for memory tasks, a new study finds.
The results were presented today at The Endocrine Society's 95th Annual Meeting in San Francisco.
"Our findings suggest that obesity-associated impairments in memory function are reversible, adding incentive for weight loss," said lead author Andreas Pettersson, MD, a PhD student at Umea University, Umea, Sweden.
Previous research has shown that obese people have impaired episodic memory, the memory of events that happen throughout one's life.

5 Quick and Easy Breakfast Recipes for Weight Loss Success

5 Quick and Easy Breakfast Recipes for Weight Loss Success: It has been documented in countless places that eating breakfast is a surefire way to speed up your weight loss, all thanks to breakfast’s satiating properties! Of course, it would be wrong to indulge in processed pancakes drenched in sticky syrup or glaze-dripping donuts. But that doesn’t mean you have to give up delicious breakfast treats.

How to talk about obesity and weight loss with your teen - CSMonitor.com

How to talk about obesity and weight loss with your teen - CSMonitor.com: Wondering how to talk to your teen about weight? Tread carefully, suggests a new study from the University of Minnesota published this week in the medical journal “Pediatrics."
Talking about weight loss and obesity might do more harm than good, the researchers found.
A survey of more than 2,000 adolescents and their parents revealed that while discussions of healthy eating and lifestyle can promote healthy choices, talking about it in terms of weight loss and obesity can drive kids to try dangerous methods of weight control, including diet pills, laxatives, fasting, and purging.

Give up grazing: Eating just TWO meals is better for weight loss than eating the same amount of calories in six | Mail Online

Give up grazing: Eating just TWO meals is better for weight loss than eating the same amount of calories in six | Mail Online: It has been fashionable for some time in the dieting industry to say that eating five or six small meals a day is the best way to lose weight and prevent hunger pangs.

But the new study has found that this approach could in fact be entirelywrong, with two meals being of more benefit - even if they contain the same amount of calories.

Avoidance of obesity is a personal responsibility | Bay State Banner | Serving the African American communities of Greater Boston since 1965

Avoidance of obesity is a personal responsibility | Bay State Banner | Serving the African American communities of Greater Boston since 1965: While it is true that some people can eat a meager diet of fruit and vegetables and still put on weight, that is not what normally happens. A lack of exercise and little dietary discipline conspire to cause people to graduate to the next clothes sizes.

The consequences of obesity are severe: heart disease, diabetes and an early death. No policy on obesity should induce people to lose sight of the fact that they are personally responsible for their good health by adhering to sound lifestyle practices.

The Best Cure for Obesity? Personal Responsibility | TIME.com

The Best Cure for Obesity? Personal Responsibility | TIME.com: You can bring disease on yourself, of course, like smoking-related lung cancer. Yet designating a state of being as an illness has a subtle distancing effect. It gently suggests that this turn of events is due either to outside forces or to weaknesses inherent in the body that are beyond your control. The AMA’s deeming alcoholism a disease in 1956 has encouraged some alcoholics to embrace Alcoholics Anonymous’ total abstinence and to recite at meetings, “I am an alcoholic,” not “I was.” For alcoholism is apparently not something you get rid of but something you have.

Tuesday, July 2, 2013

Almonds for Weight Loss

Almonds have a prominent role in the preserving the good health. It is a package of essential nutrients which are needed to the body. It is scientifically known as Prunus dulcis. The origin of almond is middle and south Asian regions. It is now cultivated in many regions around the world. The processed foods are turning egregious to the health; natural organic foods like almonds are gaining priority for preserving the good health.

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