Weight-Loss Research: Want to lose body fat? A study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association suggests that focusing on calories - not the balance of protein, fat and carbohydrate - is the key, the WSJ reports. Those on a low-protein diet did gain less weight than those on regimens with more protein, but body fat increased by about the sa...

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How much we weigh as adults is more influenced by the people around us during childhood than those we spend time with as adults, a new study suggests. The study compared the weights of 236 pairs of adolescent siblings who lived together, and 838 pairs of adult siblings who did not live together. In both groups, the body mass indices (BMIs) of siblings beca...

Women taking part in a weight loss study who ate a midmorning snack lost an average of 7 percent of their body weight over the course of a year, whereas women who did not snack before lunch lost 11 percent of their body weight. The urge to grab a snack during the relatively short time between breakfast and lunch could be a sign of generally less healthy ea...

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As the holiday season gets more hectic, all your good intentions can start slipping away. Maybe you hoped to drop another ten pounds before your office party, but the homemade goodies kept that from happening. Or you convinced yourself that you were NOT going to drink rum-spiked eggnog this year, but suddenly, you're enjoying a second cup of it. It's a tou...

To get the best results from your training, ensure that your post-workout drink or meal is up to par. After your workout, your body is most receptive to using amino acids to repair muscle tissue, while using carbohydrates to restore muscle glycogen. One of the best post-workout options is chocolate milk. Most prepared chocolate milk beverages are made with...

Thin people may be able to summon more mental defenses to resist tempting, high-calorie foods than obese people, researchers said on Monday. Brain scans of thin people who looked at pictures of high-calorie foods showed increased activity in a region of the brain used for impulse control, but obese people showed little activity in this region, the research...

The problem of obesity is spreading around the world and poses serious health threats. The finding is part of a new special report on obesity, and how to combat it in the medical journal the Lancet. The editor, Dr. Richard Horton, calls obesity a pandemic, and said it is one of the "huge threats facing governments which are likely to derail all their best...

Can a fat body be a healthy body? Using a new grading tool that takes health issues into account in addition to body mass index, it may be possible for healthy obese people to have the same lifespan as normal-weight people. The findings were released Monday in a study in the journal Applied Physiology, Nutrition, and Metabolism. Researchers looked at data o...

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Extensive sitting increases women's risk of pulmonary embolism, finds a new study in the current issue of the British Medical Journal. Women who reported the most inactivity were about twice as likely to experience pulmonary embolism as women reporting the least amount of inactivity. Extensive immobility, for example being confined to a hospital bed afte...

Two new studies have linked drinking diet soda to poorer health compared with those who don't drink the beverage. People who said they drank two or more diet sodas a day experienced waist size increases that were six times greater than those of people who didn't drink diet soda, according to researchers from the University of Texas Health Science Center at...

Yo-yo dieters were given new hope Tuesday after U.S. researchers said that losing and gaining weight was better for heavy people than not shedding any excess fat at all. Previous research suggested that constantly dropping and regaining weight could be harmful to health, but scientists from Ohio University found that a fluctuating body mass was better than...

A high salt diet isn't bad for you, it's good for healthy people, European researchers suggest. Jan A. Staessen, MD, PhD, of the University of Leuven, Belgium, led a study that measured urinary sodium levels in 3,681 healthy, 40-ish people and then followed their health for about eight years. Their finding: People with the highest sodium levels had a signi...

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