Category: The Secrets of Weight Loss
Here’s How Stress Could Be Making You Fat
Are you stressed out? Is it hard for you to lose weight? Is there excess fat hanging around in your belly area?
Scrap the Scale, Banish BMI: This Number Is Far More Important
A new study found that a low BMI and high body fat percentage (not just high BMI) are independently associated with increased mortality in both men and women.
BMI Is Broken: System Mislabels 54 Million as Unhealthy
A recent study has revealed that using BMI to gauge health has incorrectly labeled an estimated 74,936,678 adults as healthy or unhealthy.
Incredible Things Can Happen When You Give up Sugar. Here’s How to Do It.
You have a lot to gain and nothing to lose (except perhaps some extra body fat) by reducing or eliminating added sugars from your diet. Here’s how to do it.
What You Don’t Know About Sugar Can Kill You
Evidence that sugar is damaging to health continues to accumulate. Here’s an overview of what research has discovered so far.
Do You Need a Reason to Stop Drinking Soda? Here It Is.
Drinking sugar-sweetened beverages every day is associated with an increase in a particularly nasty type of body fat that has been linked with diabetes, heart disease risk, and a multitude of other health issues.
Which Fat Is Far More Likely to Kill You – Trans or Saturated?
Researchers compared studies on trans fats and saturated fats and found that one is far more likely to kill you than the other.
Think Sugary Drinks Are Safe If You Are Not Obese? Think Again
We’ve long known that soda isn’t good for health. But it isn’t the only nutritional bad beverage to avoid. All kinds of sugary drinks can increase your risk of Type 2 diabetes – even if you are not obese.
Got the Midnight Munchies? Here’s Why – and How to Handle Them
Do you have insom-nom-nom-nom-nia? Here’s why, and how to handle those late night bingefest urges.
Why Humans Hate Dieting and What to Do Instead (Hint: Be a Diet Anarchist!)
Why do you keep failing at your weight loss efforts? New research says your brains is to blame. Here’s what to do about it.