Health
Using contrasting colors to reduce serving sizes and lose weight
Choosing the right size and color of your bowls and plates could help you eat less, according to a new study in the Journal of Consumer Research.
Jan 17, 2012
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News tagged with calories
Neuroscience
Why a high-fat diet could reduce the brain's ability to regulate food intake
Regularly eating a high-fat/calorie diet could reduce the brain's ability to regulate calorie intake. New research in rats published in The Journal of Physiology has found that after short periods of being fed a high-fat/high ...
Jan 25, 2023
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Health
Eating a lighter lunch can prompt weight loss
Losing weight without dieting, going hungry or using an expensive high-protein liquid diet can be as simple as eating a smaller lunch, reports a new Cornell study that is online and will be published in the journal Appetite ...
Aug 23, 2011
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Medical research
Orally administered liquid salt helps prevent fat absorption and slow down weight gain in rats
Obesity, which affects more than one-third of American adults, is more than just an uncomfortable excess of weight—it is a driver of several, often fatal diseases like high blood pressure, diabetes, asthma, stroke, and ...
Nov 25, 2019
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Medical research
Anti-ageing drug breakthrough
Drugs that combat ageing may be available within five years, following landmark work led by an Australian researcher. The work, published in the March 8 issue of Science, finally proves that a single anti-ageing enzyme in ...
Mar 8, 2013
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Health
Sex to burn calories? Authors expose obesity myths
Fact or fiction? Sex burns a lot of calories. Snacking or skipping breakfast is bad. School physical education classes make a big difference in kids' weight.
Jan 30, 2013
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Cardiology
Cutting 250 calories daily and exercising may improve heart health in obese older adults
Cutting just 250 calories a day with moderate exercise reaped bigger rewards than exercise alone for older, obese adults. Among older adults with obesity, combining aerobic exercise with a moderate reduction in daily calories ...
Aug 2, 2021
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Health
How living like a hunter-gatherer could improve your health
Many of us want to live long, happy and healthy lives. Yet it's often confusing to know the best way to achieve this, and many aspects of modern, westernized living conspire to keep us from achieving this goal.
Jan 6, 2024
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Health
Scientists identify how fasting may protect against inflammation
Cambridge scientists may have discovered a new way that fasting helps reduce inflammation, a potentially damaging side-effect of the body's immune system that underlies a number of chronic diseases.
Jan 30, 2024
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Overweight & Obesity
Hunter-gatherers, Westerners use same amount of energy, contrary to theory
Modern lifestyles are generally quite different from those of our hunter-gatherer ancestors, a fact that some claim as the cause of the current rise in global obesity, but new results published July 25 in the open access ...
Jul 25, 2012
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