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Intermittent Fasting Shows Promise in Improving Gut Health, Weight Management
A new study by researchers from Arizona State University (ASU) and their colleagues highlights a dietary strategy for significant health improvement and weight management. Participants following an intermittent fasting and protein-pacing regimen, which involves evenly spaced protein intake throughout the day, saw better gut health, weight loss and metabolic responses. These benefits were notably greater ...
Obese and Overweight Children at Risk of Iron Deficiency
Children and young people who are overweight or obese are at significantly higher risk of iron deficiency, according to a study by nutritional scientists at the University of Leeds. Researchers from the School of Food Science and Nutrition examined thousands of medical studies from 44 countries involving people under the age of 25 where levels ...
Front-loading Calories Early in the Day Reduces Hunger But Does Not Affect Weight Loss
There’s the old saying in dieting that one must “breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, and dine like a pauper,” based on the belief that consuming the bulk of daily calories in the morning optimizes weight loss by burning calories more efficiently and quickly. But according to a new study published in Cell Metabolism, ...
A Heavy Shift to Whole Health
A major trend is that overweight or obese individuals are learning not to strictly diet for weight loss only, but they still need your expert guidance and proper supplementation. A mystery that remains and looms large is: with all the knowledge of diet and health, with the increasing availability of healthy produce and other foods, ...
Obesity May Lead to a Decline in Lung Function in Premenopausal and Postmenopausal Women
Obesity has been linked to a wide array of health problems. A new study suggests that abdominal obesity as measured by body mass index (BMI) and waist circumference, may result in a greater risk of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and asthma. Study results are published online in Menopause, the journal of The North American ...
Exercise During Pregnancy May Save Kids From Health Problems As Adults
Exercise during pregnancy may let mothers significantly reduce their children’s chances of developing diabetes and other metabolic diseases later in life, new research suggests. A study in lab mice has found that maternal exercise during pregnancy prevented the transmission of metabolic diseases from an obese parent—either mother or father—to child. If the finding holds true ...
Large Study Links Sustained Weight Loss to Reduced Breast Cancer Risk
A large new study finds that women who lost weight after age 50 and kept it off had a lower risk of breast cancer than women whose weight remained stable, helping answer a vexing question in cancer prevention. The reduction in risk increased with the amount of weight lost and was specific to women not ...
High Lead Levels During Pregnancy Linked to Child Obesity
Children born to women who have high blood levels of lead are more likely be overweight or obese, compared to those whose mothers have low levels of lead in their blood, according to a study funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and Health Resources and Services Administration. The study was conducted by Xiaobin ...
The Effects of Five Different Sweeteners on Weight Gain/Loss
By Prof. Gene Bruno, MS, MHS, RH(AHG) Huntington University of Health Sciences The public and health care professionals alike have always had a love/hate relationship with low-calorie sweeteners—especially artificial sweeteners. Many like that fact that these sweeteners have no calories but dislike the fact that they are synthetic. I do understand the sentiment. This is ...
Breastfeeding Reduces Hypertension Risk, Study Says
A study published in the American Journal of Hypertension indicates that women who breastfeed more children, and for longer periods of time, are less likely to suffer from hypertension after they reach menopause. This is less true of obese women, however. Elevated blood pressure is the greatest single risk factor for disease and mortality. Evidence from epidemiologic ...
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