Posts Tagged ‘Weight Gain’
Eating Ourselves to Death!
One of the greatest gifts we possess as humans is the power to choose, and we use it recklessly. We choose all kinds of things that are horrible for us. This has never been truer than when it comes to our daily nutrition choices. As Americans we have access to the best foods in the…
Read MoreEvidence Supports A New Year’s Resolution to Exercise!
A long-term plan to keep off excess pounds starts with regular physical activity in the years between young adulthood and middle age. Arlene L. Hankinson, from Northwestern University (Illinois, USA), and colleagues studied 3,554 men and women, ages v18 to 30 years at the study’s start, enrolled in the Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young…
Read MoreIs White Bread Making You FAT? The Answer is YES!
Exercise won’t offset the waist-inflating effect of white bread, according to a new studying in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. Among exercisers, those who ate refined grains daily had 12 percent more visceral fat – the most dangerous kind – than those who consumed less of the processed product. The researchers also found that…
Read MoreLow Vitamin D Levels Linked to Obesity!!!
New research adds to the evidence linking obesity with lower levels of vitamin D, and the finding could help explain why carrying extra pounds raises the risk for a wide range of diseases, researchers say. The study suggests that people who are obese may be less able to convert vitamin D into its hormonally active…
Read MoreCan Holiday Stress Cause Weight Gain?
The answer to this question is 100% YES! The hormone cortisol is produced in the adrenal cortex in response to adrenal cortical stimulating hormone (ACTH) produced in the pituitary gland. Cortisol plays an important role in regulating blood sugar, energy production, inflammation, the immune system and healing. If you have too little cortisol, you may…
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