Chewing gum can make you chubby
A new study has found chewing gum could make people fat since its minty taste makes sugary food more tempting.Scientists found people given to chew gum eat more high calorie sweet foods. This is because the chemical responsible for the minty flavour of gum makes savoury foods, especially fruit and v...
Summer is the best time to lose weight. The GUIDE chatted with experts to offer some handy tips to eat right this season.Dietitian Suman Agarwal, author of the newly-released book, Unjunked, says that eating healthy is a way of life. "One can eat all kinds of food but having them in a healthy way an...
Olive oil leads to satiety, shows a study that points out the mechanism behind it.Reduced-fat food products are gaining popularity. More and more people are choosing "light" products in an attempt to lose weight, or at least in the hope that they would not gain pounds.But whether these products are ...
Losing weight may help control osteoarthritis
Losing weight may help mitigate symptoms in patients suffering from osteoarthritis, a new study has found.Weight loss may prevent and significantly alleviate the symptoms of osteoarthritis, a progressive disease of the joints known as "wear and tear" arthritis, according to a literature review appea...
Eating lunch late leads to obesity, says study
Going in for a late lunch might actually make it harder for you to shed the pounds, according to researchers.Researchers from Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston and the University of Murcia studied 420 overweight people who followed a 20-week weight-loss treatment programme in Spain.Half of the gr...
Childhood obesity promotes hyperactivity, impulsivity: Study
High-fat diets tend to promote inattentiveness, over-activity, impulsivity in childhood, known as attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), and other learning disabilities, says a new study."We found that a high-fat diet rapidly affected dopamine metabolism in the brains of juvenile mice, tri...
Can brain trick you into losing weight?
Brain circuitry can trick your body into losing weight, says a study.Scientists from Sydney and New South Wales Universities, identified the brain circuitry that can trick the body into losing weight.Shu Lin, Yanchuan Shi and Herbert Herzog, professor and his team have been studying the complex proc...
Tummy tucks, the latest fad in Kerala
While food security and starvation are issues that dominate headlines, there are those queuing up in India's most literate state to tuck in their tummies, with a little help from the doctor.'Bariatric Surgery,' as the tummy-tuck procedure is medically known, reduces the size of the stomach so food i...
Pumping botox in belly won't help weight loss
Some of the obese are looking to botox shots for easy weight loss -- but now it is clear that they don't, according to a definitive study.Injecting botulinum toxin A (BTA), or Botox, into the stomach had been believed to delay emptying of the stomach, increase feelings of fullness and reduce body we...
To shed more fat, exercise before breakfast
Early risers who exercise before breakfast can burn up to 20 percent more body fat than others who exercised after having something to eat, says a study.Researchers sought to find out if the known benefits of exercising after an overnight fast were undermined by an increased appetite and eating more...
Emotions could interfere with weight loss
The findings of a survey in the US indicate that the inability to control emotions could throw weight loss programmes off kilter.In a survey conducted by the Consumer Reports National Research Centre, more than 1,300 licensed psychologists were asked how they dealt with clients' weight and weight lo...
Why January diets are doomed to fail
January is not the time to start a diet, it's a month to enjoy comfort foods. Save the salads for the summer, says Catherine Phipps.It is generally accepted that those who overindulge in stilton and roast potatoes during December will want to diet come January. By the time the twelfth day rolls arou...
Eaten too much over Christmas? Thinking of going on a diet, but not sure which to plump for? One man spent a week testing out weight-loss plans to find out which you can stick with.The first act of a new year is usually attempting to remove that pulsating tractor wheel of pudding and booze that's am...
Small changes in diet help shed extra pounds: Study
Making small changes in our diet over a stretch of 25 days or more every month, goes a long way in helping shed the extra pounds, says a new study.Led by Brian Wansink, professor at the Cornell University's Food and Brand Lab, researchers launched the National Mindless Eating Challenge (NMEC), an on...
Stick to a healthy diet for weight loss
Cutting down butter and cheese, biscuits, cakes and crisps and going in for low-fat diet could help shed pounds, according to a new research.In this way, people can get slimmer in six months without dieting. The more fat you stop eating, the more weight is lost, says a new research from the Universi...
'Weight-loss procedures lack standardization and proficiency'
None of the weight-loss solutions currently available in the country are functioning on any reliable logical science, leading to short term weight loss and several linked complications, experts said at the "National Conference on Tackling Nutritional Challenges Among the diabetic Young"."Lately, cen...
World's first anti-obesity shot promising
The world's first anti-obesity vaccine has shown promising results in boosting weight loss, according to a study.Keith Haffer from Braasch Biotech LLC, south Dakota, who developed the vaccines in two versions JH17 and JH18, derived from a peptide hormone somatostatin, tested them in two groups of di...
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