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Cissus quadrangularis for Weight Loss, Heart Health and Metabolic Wellness
Nobody wants to be overweight. Aside from the obvious self-image issues, being overweight and obese is associated with various health issues including heart heath, and increased risk for metabolic syndrome/diabetes. Nevertheless, nearly one in three adults (30.7 percent) are overweight, more than two in five adults (42.4 percent) have obesity, and about one in 11 ...
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, ...
Do You Know What Else Your Body Is Saying Beyond Weight Concerns?
Losing weight is one of the most frustrating, talked about, marketed, confidence-boosting (when it does happen) concerns, and can bring up an even wider range of emotions both about ourselves and about others. It can affect our relationship with our body, with others, and what we feel like we can achieve in the world, especially ...
Research Review Shows Intermittent Fasting Works For Weight Loss, Health Changes
Intermittent fasting can produce clinically significant weight loss as well as improve metabolic health in individuals with obesity, according to a new study review led by University of Illinois, Chicago (UIC) researchers. “We noted that intermittent fasting is not better than regular dieting; both produce the same amount of weight loss and similar changes in ...
Aerobic Exercise Could Have the Final Say on Fatty Livers
A new study from Trinity College Dublin (Ireland) highlights that fitness may be a more important clinical endpoint for improvement in patients with fatty liver diseases during exercise trials, rather than weight loss. The findings have been published in the medical journal Alimentary Pharmacology and Therapeutics. Metabolic associated fatty liver disease (MAFLD) is a condition characterized ...
Can Supplements Help With Weight Loss?
For years, we have struggled to effectively help people to lose weight using diet and exercise alone. While the pharmaceutical industry has several drugs on the market that are approved to help with weight loss, none are overly effective, and many people don’t want to jump into taking a prescription medication. Instead, many individuals are ...
Opuntia ficus-indica Fiber for Weight Loss & Metabolic Syndrome
Opuntia ficus-indica, aka, “prickly pear,” is the most widespread and most commercially important species of cactus and is grown in agricultural economies throughout arid and semiarid parts of the world. Common names for the plant and its fruit are nopal, Indian fig opuntia, Barbary fig, cactus pear, prickly pear and spineless cactus, among others.1,2 In ...
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 ...
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 ...
How Weight Loss is Linked to Future Health for Older Adults
Studies describing the effects of weight loss on health rarely consider age. However, weight loss during middle age likely has different effects on your health than does weight loss when you’re 65-years-old or older—especially when you’re older than 85. Although some studies have found that weight loss in older adults is generally linked to an ...
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