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Now, a study may have found a way to tell if a person will maintain weight loss or gain it all back. Researchers from the Diet, Obesity and Genes (DiOGenes) study, an ongoing European study on weight loss, found that insulin levels and genetics can …
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Reuters – Obese older adults may be more likely than their thinner peers to suffer a potentially disabling fall — though the most severely overweight may be somewhat protected from injury, according to a U.S. study.
Reuters – Obese older adults may be more likely than their thinner peers to suffer a potentially disabling fall — though the most severely obese may be somewhat protected from injury, a new study suggests.
AP – The Washington state ferry service isn’t going to start turning away hefty passengers, but it has had to reduce the capacity of the nation’s largest ferry system because people have been packing on the pounds.
AP – The Washington state ferry service isn’t going to start turning away hefty passengers, but it has had to reduce the capacity of the nation’s largest ferry system because people have been packing on the pounds.
| Now more two years into her lifestyle changes, she has lost 120 pounds and has reached her goal weight of 160. "I had tried all sorts of things," she says. "But I credit my weight loss to diet and exercise and just making better choices. … See all stories on this topic » |
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SAN ANTONIO — Women concerned about breast cancer should worry less about cellphones and hair dyes and worry more about weighing or drinking too much, exercising too little, using menopause hormones and getting too much radiation from medical tests. …
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Fat-free foods could “work against dieters”, The Daily Telegraph has reported. … Health news stories unspun; Diet and nutrition; Obesity and weight loss …
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ContributorNetwork – COMMENTARY | In October, after years of promising myself and my family that I would do so, I stopped being part of the 17.3 percent of the American population who smokes cigarettes. According to the United Health Foundation’s annual report on America’s health, there are fewer smokers this year, down from 17.9 percent in 2010, and more than 25 percent fewer since 2001.
With moderate exercise (2.5 hours a week), modest weight loss (an average of 7 percent of body weight) and dietary changes to include more vegetables and fruit, prediabetics reduced their risk of getting the disease by 58 percent. …
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Health news stories unspun; Diet and nutrition; Obesity and weight loss …. Stop those highcalorie foods and swap them for a healthy balanced diet …
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| … a person to resist food temptations). "When exercise is added to a weight–loss diet, treatment of obesity is more successful and the diet is adhered to in the long run," Miguel Alonso Alonso, a researcher at Harvard University said in a statement. … See all stories on this topic » |
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