Year: 2016

King, 61, is down 27.7 lbs. since beginning Weight Watchers in September 2015. She began at 184.5 lbs., but as of Friday, is clocking-in at 156.8 lbs.
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The first ever experiment to test whether a calorie-negative food exists revealed eating celery is a powerful weight loss aid – burning up to double the …
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By Andrew M. Seaman (Reuters Health) – Drug labels sometimes warn that the medications may disrupt sleep, but a new study suggests these drugs don't cause troubled sleep for most people. The researchers found "barely" any link between medications that warned about potential sleep disturbances and actual sleep problems among thousands of people interviewed for the study. "Sleep disturbances are a frequent problem especially in older people and we wanted to find out whether this might be due to the intake of sleep disturbing drugs," said lead author Anna-Therese Lehnich, of the University of Duisburg-Essen in Germany, in email to Reuters Health.

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His top three tips for weight loss are simple, quantifiable, and easy to implement — starting now! It comes down to movement, sleep, and nutrition.
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Amnesty International said on Friday that Nigeria’s army last month killed at least 17 unarmed members of a group calling for secession from Africa’s most populous nation, but the military dismissed the allegations as unfounded. An army spokesman said Amnesty’s accusations, the latest in a series of allegations of impropriety leveled against Nigeria’s military in the last year, revealed a bias that undermined its credibility. Amnesty’s report — which it said was based on details from eyewitnesses, morgues and hospitals — says soldiers opened fire on members of the Indigenous people of Biafra (IPOB) and their supporters in the southeastern city of Onitsha during the build up to a march in late May. The human rights group said the killings took place during a security operation in the early hours of the morning shortly before the march when the military raided homes and a church where IPOB members slept.
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What I love is the fact that there's no dieting or counting calories, just slightly changing the way we eat. A recent report (in the American Journal of …
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Andrew Rodriguez was 15 years old when he smoked his first cigarette. He knows how addictive smoking can be and hopes a new California law raising the smoking age will discourage young people from taking up the habit.

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