BBC - Future - Health - Does skipping breakfast make you put on weight?

BBC - Future - Health - Does skipping breakfast make you put on weight?: What happens when you turn the question round? Seven studies found that overweight children are more likely to skip breakfast. But this highlights the problem with these studies – they are cross-sectional. They take a snapshot in time. They don’t prove causation. We can’t know which came first – the excess weight or the breakfast-skipping. Perhaps these children are missing breakfast because they are already overweight and are trying to eat less.

Speed Up Your Weight Loss With ‘Fast Metabolism Diet’ Recipes - ABC News

Speed Up Your Weight Loss With ‘Fast Metabolism Diet’ Recipes - ABC News: What’s the secret? Keeping your metabolism guessing, which gets it to work faster, she says. Pomroy’s eating plan consists of three phases: Phase I (Monday-Tuesday) is lots of carbs and fruits; Phase II (Wednesday-Thursday) is proteins and veggies; and Phase III (Friday-Sunday) mixes all of the above, plus healthy fats and oils. Three full meals and at least two snacks a day are the norm.

Salt responsible for 2.3 million deaths worldwide, study suggests | Fox News

Salt responsible for 2.3 million deaths worldwide, study suggests | Fox News: A new study from Harvard Medical School has linked the overabundant salt intake to 2.3 million deaths worldwide in 2010 – from heart attacks, strokes and other heart-related problems, HealthDay News reported.

However, the study only showed an association between salt intake and heart-related deaths, not a cause-and-effect relationship.

ScienceDirect.com - European Journal of Pharmacology - Curcumin restores diabetes induced neurochemical changes in the brainstem of Wistarrats

ScienceDirect.com - European Journal of Pharmacology - Curcumin restores diabetes induced neurochemical changes in the brainstem of Wistarrats: Curcumin and insulin treatment restored the alterations and maintained all parameters to near control. The results show that diabetes is associated with significant reduction in brainstem function coupled with altered cholinergic, insulin receptor and GLUT-3 gene expression. The present study indicates beneficial effect of curcumin in diabetic rats by regulating the cholinergic, insulin receptor and GLUT-3 in the brainstem similar to the responses obtained with insulin therapy.

BBC News - Salt linked to immune rebellion in study

BBC News - Salt linked to immune rebellion in study: The amount of salt in our diet could be involved in driving our own immune systems to rebel against us, leading to diseases such as multiple sclerosis, early laboratory findings suggest.
Several teams of scientists have simultaneously published data in the journal Nature suggesting a link.

4 Ways To Workout Your Willpower For Weight Loss - Forbes

4 Ways To Workout Your Willpower For Weight Loss - Forbes: Most people think of willpower as a mysterious force that “lazy” people just don’t have enough of. In reality, willpower is more like a muscle – it can only take you so far. If your willpower is not trained, it can’t take on a heavy load. In fact, studies have shown that the brain has limited power to make decisions, and that minor decisions add up throughout the day, depleting our reserves. With your willpower depleted, you may find yourself stress-eating more frequently, or choosing a nap over a trip to the gym. The best way to change your habits, whether it’s waking up earlier or choosing a banana over a piece of pound cake, is to workout your willpower incrementally. Here are 4 ways to get started.

What’s Stronger than Willpower for Weight Loss? Cold, Hard Cash | TIME.com

What’s Stronger than Willpower for Weight Loss? Cold, Hard Cash | TIME.com: The chance to win or lose $20 a month enticed dieters in a yearlong study to drop an average of 9 pounds – four times more weight than others who were not offered dough to pass up the doughnuts.

Many employers, insurers and Internet programs dangle dollars to try to change bad habits like smoking or not exercising, but most studies have found this doesn’t work very well or for very long.

Feast and Famine: Controversial 'Fast Diet' Weight Loss Plan Is Eat for 5 Days, Fast for 2 - ABC News

Feast and Famine: Controversial 'Fast Diet' Weight Loss Plan Is Eat for 5 Days, Fast for 2 - ABC News: According to its creators, tons of Brits are losing tons of weight. But what's intriguing is that they're reportedly getting radically healthier by doing something that sounds truly unhealthy: Fasting.

Not every day, just two days a week. The other five days require zero willpower. Fast dieters can eat whatever they want, from cheeseburgers to croissants, in a guilt-free way, the backers of this diet claim.

6 Easy Ways to Speed Up Weight Loss - Forbes

6 Easy Ways to Speed Up Weight Loss - Forbes: Here are 6 tricks weight loss gurus use to peel off pounds more quickly.

It’s almost the end of February, and after two months of self-denial, your New Year’s resolution to lose weight is proving discouragingly difficult. You know what you need to do: Cut calories and up your activity level. And you’re on the right track – but the train seems to have slowed down to a crawl.

Why Some Employers are Paying Employees to Lose Weight | Fox Business

Why Some Employers are Paying Employees to Lose Weight | Fox Business: The obesity epidemic plaguing the country not only adds billions of dollars in costs to the nation’s health-care system, it also weighs on employees’ productivity. According to HealthyWage, workers dealing with obesity and other chronic health issues cost more than $153 billion a year in lost productivity due to absenteeism.

Weight loss helps to oust worms

Weight loss helps to oust worms: Scientists from the Manchester Immunology Group and the Institute of Inflammation and Repair studied the immune response system in mice that were lacking immune cells and feeding hormones.The mice were infected with the round worm parasite Trichinella spiralis.

Winning weight loss tips | Wausau Daily Herald | wausaudailyherald.com

Winning weight loss tips | Wausau Daily Herald | wausaudailyherald.com: If you’ve set out to lose weight and get healthy in 2013, but are not sure how to keep going another month, much less the rest of the year, take advice from registered dietitian Anika DeCoster, program manager of the 90-Day Challenge for Life Time Fitness, The Healthy Way of Life Co. In its third year, the national weight loss contest has helped a total of 58,000 people lose a cumulative 145,000 pounds.

Study: Dieters who ate lunch earlier lost more weight

Study: Dieters who ate lunch earlier lost more weight: "We should start to consider meal timing in addition to calories and meal composition when thinking about weight loss," says the study's senior author Frank Scheer, an associate neuroscientist at Brigham and Women's Hospital and an assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School.

Weight loss food: Benefits of garlic - The Times of India

Weight loss food: Benefits of garlic - The Times of India: Garlic is a key part of the Indian diet and many cuisines around the world. Remember your grandma asking you to eat a piece of garlic everyday? Well she was right! This natural medicine helps in lowering cholesterol as well as fighting cancer, hypertension, diabetes, arthritis, Alzheimer's disease, the common cold and even aids weight loss.

Obesity and Male Infertility

Obesity and Male Infertility: Obesity in men is associated with infertility in numerous studies, and the temporal trend for a decline in semen parameters parallels the increasing prevalence of obesity in the developed world. In addition to impaired semen quality, fertility among obese men may be affected by decreased libido and erectile dysfunction.

Top 5 fat-burning supplements for winter weight loss | Fox News

Top 5 fat-burning supplements for winter weight loss | Fox News: When you’re eating the right foods and exercising correctly, supplementation can give you that extra push in the right direction. With so many supplements and fat loss pills on the market it’s important to know you are making safe choices and not wasting money. I’d love to hear your favorites.

Weight loss helps to oust worms

Weight loss helps to oust worms: Scientists from The University of Manchester have discovered that weight loss plays an important role in the body's response to fighting off intestinal worms.

GI Dynamics launches weight loss device trial - Boston Business Journal

GI Dynamics launches weight loss device trial - Boston Business Journal: The device has been studied in 12 trials outside the U.S. and one in the U.S., with a total of more than 500 patients. The company says previous trials have shown that the device can rapidly reduce blood sugar levels and help patients achieve a weight loss of approximately 20 percent in 12 months.

Do-it-yourself diets beat commercial weight-loss plans in consumer satisfaction - The Washington Post

Do-it-yourself diets beat commercial weight-loss plans in consumer satisfaction - The Washington Post: The February issue of Shape magazine, which conducted the online survey of its readers in connection with SheKnows.com to learn how social media is affecting women’s health habits, found that nearly 60 percent of the women reported using apps to stay on track with their health goals.

Excessive fat can take your breath away - Health & Families - Life & Style - The Independent

Excessive fat can take your breath away - Health & Families - Life & Style - The Independent: The researchers were surprised to find that the fatty diet also impacted the effectiveness of asthma medications, like albuterol. Wood added, "This is the first study to show that a high fat meal increases airway inflammation, so this is a very important finding. The observation that a high fat meal changes the asthmatic response to albuterol was unexpected as we hadn't considered the possibility that this would occur."

Emotions Pose Obstacle to Weight Loss, Psychologists Say | LiveScience

Emotions Pose Obstacle to Weight Loss, Psychologists Say | LiveScience: Sure, portion size and exercise are important factors for losing weight, but psychologists say emotions often pose some of the biggest challenges for those trying to shed pounds.

Weight Loss and Other Benefits of Staying Hydrated | STACK

Weight Loss and Other Benefits of Staying Hydrated | STACK: When athletes set up a weight loss program, they typically take diet and exercise into consideration but neglect the important element of hydration. (See Elements of Proper Hydration.) Regardless of your personal goals, continually supplying your body with fluids is critical. Staying hydrated speeds results and turns you into a leaner and tougher athlete. Here's why you should never overlook your hydration levels.

Weight Loss and Other Benefits of Staying Hydrated | STACK

Weight Loss and Other Benefits of Staying Hydrated | STACK: When athletes set up a weight loss program, they typically take diet and exercise into consideration but neglect the important element of hydration. (See Elements of Proper Hydration.) Regardless of your personal goals, continually supplying your body with fluids is critical. Staying hydrated speeds results and turns you into a leaner and tougher athlete. Here's why you should never overlook your hydration levels.

Protein key to fighting and preventing obesity discovered

Protein key to fighting and preventing obesity discovered: University of Florida researchers and colleagues have identified a protein that, when absent, helps the body burn fat and prevents insulin resistance and obesity. The findings from the National Institutes of Health-funded study were published online ahead of print Jan. 6, in the journal Nature Medicine.

Anti-inflammatory Diet & Foods: Health Benefits

Anti-inflammatory Diet & Foods: Health Benefits: While each plan has its own twist, all are based on the general concept that constant or out-of-control inflammation in the body leads to ill health, and that eating to avoid constant inflammation promotes better health and can ward off disease, says Russell Greenfield, MD, a clinical assistant professor of medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a private-practice physician who studied under Weil.