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How To Deal With A Slowing Metabolism As You Age
It’s well known that as you age, unless you take active steps to remain healthy and fit, you tend to gradually put on more fat and lose muscle mass. What is not so well known, however, is what those specific preventive steps really are.
True, a healthful diet and frequent, well-planned exercise can help thwart the [...]
Moderate Exercise Does Not Make Your Body Burn Fat For Hours
How often have you heard someone at the gym or on a late-night infomercial say that working out will help you burn fat for hours after you stop? Too many times to keep count? Well, Edward Melanson, an associate professor of medicine at the University of Colorado, Denver would beg to differ and he presents [...]
The Gene That Converts Carbohydrates To Fat
It’s all in your genes, folks. Researchers at the University of Berkeley have uncovered a gene called DNA-PK that is thought to be responsible for the regulation of the process in the liver that converts carbohydrates in the food we eat into fat.
What is amazing about this discovery is that when mice were treated to [...]
This Recession Could Be Injurious To Your Health
Back in November of last year, I wrote a short piece on how As The Economy Shrinks, Waistlines Could Expand. That article was almost entirely focused on the nutrition aspect of a recession and how reduced or missing incomes led families to look for cheaper foods which in most cases are unfortunately really bad for [...]
Fat People Just Want To Be As Healthy As They Can Be
One thing that everyone would surely agree with is that the overweight and obese are often not looked at in the best light by society. There is often an unspoken disdain, pity or even suspicion about how honest they are in their efforts to lose weight. Well, it looks like the affected people want to [...]
