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Daily Weighing Helps People Lose Weight, Prevents Gain

Posted: Friday, December 02, 2005

The research team evaluated self-weighing practices of more than 3,000 people participating in either a weight-loss or a weight-gain prevention program. The study's key finding: “Higher weighing frequency was associated with greater 24-month weight loss or less weight gain.”

Unfit and Lean Have Fewer Cardiac Risk Factors Than Fit and Fat

Posted: Friday, December 02, 2005

Unfit and LeanLosing weight may be more important than exercise when it comes to being heart healthy in young adulthood Have Fewer Cardiac Risk Factors Than Fit and Fat

Fat Thighs Benefits Health

Posted: Thursday, August 18, 2005

For many people, mainly women, fat on legs, hips, and buttocks may actually help ward off heart disease and diabetes.

WELL Diet More Effective Than Regular Low-Fat Diet

Posted: Monday, June 13, 2005

A diet with specified targets for fruit, vegetable and dairy intake -- the WELL diet -- is more effective than a typical low-fat diet in reducing blood pressure

Eat Fat to Lose Fat

Posted: Friday, May 20, 2005

Fat consumption in the diet can lead to healthy blood levels of sugar and cholesterol, say researchers

Joslin’s New Nutrition Guidelines for Diabetes and Pre-Diabetes

Posted: Thursday, April 21, 2005

40-30-30 formula and 3 hours of activity a week + 50Gms Fiber can equal a modest weight loss of one pound every one to two weeks

Mediterranean Diet Reduces Mortality in Elderly

Posted: Thursday, April 21, 2005

Adherence to a diet relying on plant foods and unsaturated fats that resembles the Mediterranean diet is associated with reduction in overall mortality in elderly Europeans.

Have Low Blood Pressure? Drink Water

Posted: Wednesday, December 15, 2004

According to research published in the Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry, drinking two glasses of water can raise blood pressure, potentially providing a solution for patients with low blood pressure while standing, caused by autonomic failure.

Average American is 1 Inch Taller, 25 Pounds Heavier Than 40 Years Ago

Posted: Monday, November 08, 2004

Adults are roughly an inch taller than they were in the early 1960s, on average, and nearly 25 pounds heavier, the government reported. The country's expanding waistline has been well documented, though the report is the first to quantify it based on how many pounds the average person is carrying

Making It Through the Holidays

Posted: Monday, November 08, 2004

While controlling diabetes (or reducing one’s risk) is a yearlong effort, perhaps no other season poses as many temptations as the holidays.So how do you make it through? Here are suggestions, several from the Defeat Diabetes Foundation (www.defeatdiabetes.org), to help you keep focus.