So sorry to be the bearer of bad news but it seems another magic weight loss pill bites the dust. This time the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is warning us to stop popping a product called StarCaps and formerly known as TimeCaps. When are we gonna learn that the secret to losing weight the [...]
What’s the REAL lowdown on red meat’s role in your daily diet? Is it the source of all that is good and righteous in the world or the primary occupant of the devil’s freezer? The answer is probably both and neither. As with most topics as hotly debated as this one, there is no cut [...]
It goes without saying that exercise and proper diet are the best ways to lose weight. But it’s also true that there are a small percentage of people out there who have legitimately stuck with traditional diet and exercise routines and still can’t shed the extra poundage. Or maybe they have failed at diet after [...]
Yep, wine really is a health drink.
Back in the mid 90s researchers began to investigate the French Paradox to try and discover why people who ate so much cheese fat weren’t having more heart attacks. Turns out the credit goes to a moderate but steady national wine drinking habit. Research from all sorts of sources [...]
Sometimes late at night you lie awake and think, “There MUST be more to life than a weight set and treadmill. MORE than dumbbells and exercise balls.” Well, I’m sorry to say that…there is. Yep, there’s a whole world of non-traditional exercise equipment out there just waiting to send you to the emergency room from [...]
There is an ancient Chinese proverb that says, “Better to be deprived of food for three days, than tea for one.” I guess they like their caffeine. So is green tea really good for you or is it all a lot of hype and hooey? There must be something to it. Green tea has been [...]
This year I have decided to be thankful for ghrelin and peptide YY. No, these are not the two latest pseudo-angst ridden pop punk bands to emerge from around the country and take the flavor of the day charts by storm. What they are is two key appetite hormones that are suppressed when you work [...]
Here’s a newsflash. Are you sitting down? A recent study has deduced that regular exercise seems to reduce anger expression in overweight but otherwise healthy children. No sh**, Sherlock. How much of a grant did you need to decide that?
The first published study on the matter took 208 sedentary 7-11 year olds and either stuck [...]
Since when did video games become a vehicle for fitness, other than overdeveloped thumbs and fingers? Whoa, step back if you haven’t heard of Wii Fit. This brainchild from Nintendo bypasses the normal extremely low level of movement associated with video games and adds a level of physicality that causes researchers like Kansas State University’s [...]
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A potential weight loss drug called lorcaserin created by Arena Pharmaceuticals announced midstage study results in the Obesity journal which boasts significant weight loss in the 469 patients currently undergoing treatment in the blind study. The late stage [...]
