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Health And Nutrition Guide
Food for Potential Energy
FOOD (Macro-nutrients) One of the most important aspects of hill walking or trekking and adventure holidays is to maintain your calorie intake to keep pace with the terrain & amount of equipment you are carrying. The best ratio for active people is: CARBOHYDRATES 50-60% Simple carbs.
Substitutes for Butter
Instead of Butter: Use top quality, cold pressed, extra virgin olive oil, from the first pressing, or flaxseed oil. The taste of virgin olive oil is appealing to millions of people around the world, so why not adopt it to your taste? Flaxseed oil is prized for health reasons and not for its taste.
The Wonderful Benefits of the Mediterranean Diet
The Mediterranean Diet is now recognized as one of the healthiest in the world consisting as it does of large amounts of fresh fruit and vegetables, salads, nuts, seeds, omega-3 rich oily fish, olives, and olive oil and being comparitively low in dairy products and red meats. The people of the Mediterranean region, particuarly Greece and Spain, are very fortunate to live in an area where naturally healthy food is readily and cheaply available.
South Beach Diet - US vs. World
Diets concern especially Americans as they do have a 'national weight problem'. So it would only be natural that dieting issues be so over proportioned in the US.
WLS Patients Feeling Gassy & Bloated? Sugar Alcohol May Be To Blame
Sugar intake is a real concern for people who've had gastric bypass, in fact most patients fear sugar. The foremost fear isn't weight gain, it's dumping.
Physical Health is Attainable Through Proper Nutrition and Exercise
Obesity is epidemic in this country for both children and adults. The invention of television, video games, and convenient appliances help to influence us to be sedentary.
Clues for Fibromyalgia Relief
Fibromyalgia is a chronic and potentially life-altering disorder with symptoms such as extreme muscle pain, extraordinary fatigue and multiple tender and painful points. Fibromyalgia itself tends to be similar in many aspects to rheumatic diseases although it differs from arthritis in that there is no known inflammation or damage to the joints, muscles or tissues.
How Do You Know Your Nutrition is Working for You?
Please feel free to comment, so that the article may be developed. How would you like to know what is going on in you body? Are you healthy? How do you know? Is your lifestyle doing anything for you? Researchers at the Huntsman Cancer Institute have developed the Biophotonic Scanner.
Principles of The Zone Diet Plan
The Zone Diet has been around since around 1995, when fatty acids research scientist Dr. Barry Sears published the New York Times bestseller 'The Zone'.
Are You Lactose Intolerant?
Do you know anyone who can't consume milk or milk-based products? The condition is not uncommon and these people are classified as lactose intolerant. Lactose is the main carbohydrate or sugar found in milk, and in varying quantities in dairy products made from milk including yoghurt, ice cream, soft cheeses and butter.
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(AFP)
 AFP - Obesity continued to creep up in the United States last year and now affects more than one in four US adults, a US government report showed Friday.
Mississippi remains most obese state, CDC reports
(AP)
 AP - The South tips the scales again as the nation's fattest region, according to a new government survey.
U.S. Obesity Epidemic Continues to Grow
(HealthDay)
HealthDay - THURSDAY, July 17 (HealthDay News) -- Despite wide-ranging
efforts to encourage Americans to lose weight, the number of U.S. adults
who are obese increased almost 2 percent between 2005 and 2007, a new
report found.
More Americans obese, government finds
(Reuters)
Reuters - More than a quarter of all Americans
are now obese, the latest U.S. government figures show.
Study: Low-carb diet best for weight, cholesterol
(AP)
 AP - The Atkins diet may have proved itself after all: A low-carb diet and a Mediterranean-style regimen helped people lose more weight than a traditional low-fat diet in one of the longest and largest studies to compare the dueling weight-loss techniques.
Diet Plans Produce Similar Results
(HealthDay)
HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, July 16 (HealthDay News) -- New research shows that
Mediterranean and low-carb diets are just as good and just as safe as the
low-fat diet often prescribed by doctors, a revelation that should give
people more choices in eating well.
Obesity ups a woman's pancreatic cancer risk: study
(Reuters)
Reuters - Obese women who carry most of their
extra weight around the stomach are 70 percent more likely to
develop pancreatic cancer, an international team of researchers
reported on Tuesday.
Laparoscopic gastric bypass provides better results
(Reuters)
Reuters - Performing gastric bypass
surgery to reduce the weight of morbidly obese patients using a
laparoscopic method, rather than the conventional more invasive
"open" abdominal method, reduces postoperative complications,
the need for a second operation, and shortens hospital stays,
new research shows. Nevertheless, laparoscopic gastric bypass
is more expensive.
Newest fertility treatment may be a diet
(Reuters)
 Reuters - The newest low-tech fertility
treatment may be a diet, researchers said on Wednesday after
learning that obese men have more abnormal sperm and make less
semen.
Obesity levels in China rising fast, study finds
(Reuters)
 Reuters - Obesity levels in China are rising
fast, with more than a quarter of the adult population
overweight or obese. As people add more meat and dairy products
to their diet, serious health problems can develop, a new study
says.
Kids' Obesity May Lead to Epidemic of Adult Diabetes
(HealthDay)
HealthDay - TUESDAY, July 8 (HealthDay News) -- The current childhood obesity
epidemic in the United States may lead to large numbers of young adults
developing type 2 diabetes in the future, along with serious
diabetes-related health complications, warns a University of Michigan
researcher.
Quarter of Chinese adults are overweight, obese: US study
(AFP)
 AFP - Declining physical activity and a shift towards a Western diet are driving up obesity rates in China, with more than 25 percent of adults now considered overweight or obese, a study warned Tuesday.
Metformin may help obese teen girls lose weight
(Reuters)
Reuters - The addition of the type 2
diabetes drug metformin to a lifestyle modification program may
help female adolescents lose weight loss if they also make
dietary changes, according to a new study.
ADHD Might Raise Kids' Obesity Risk
(HealthDay)
HealthDay - MONDAY, July 7 (HealthDay News) -- Children with attention-deficit
hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) are at a 50 percent higher risk for being
overweight if they are not taking medication for the condition, a new
study finds.
Hardwired for fat: scientists identify obesity gene
(AFP)
 AFP - British and French scientists have identified several variants of a single gene that boost the risk of obesity, according to a study published Sunday in the British journal Nature.
Obesity may offer some protection after stenting
(Reuters)
Reuters - Paradoxically, obesity may
offer some protection against heart-related "events," like
heart attack, in people who have a stent placed to prop open a
clogged coronary artery, research shows.
Kidney stones a risk after stomach bypass surgery
(Reuters)
Reuters - Morbidly obese adults who
undergo a particular type of stomach bypass surgery called
Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (RYGB) appear to be at increased risk
of developing kidney stones earlier than previously thought.
The increase in stone risk was evident just three months after
the surgery.
Population-Based Strategy Urged to Cut U.S. Obesity Rate
(HealthDay)
HealthDay - MONDAY, June 30 (HealthDay News) -- Reducing the high rate of
obesity in the United States requires a comprehensive, population-based
strategy, says a new American Heart Association (AHA) scientific
statement.
Fatty Liver Disease Ups Heart Risks for Obese Kids
(HealthDay)
HealthDay - MONDAY, June 30 (HealthDay News) -- More than 6 million children
in the United States have a condition called nonalcoholic fatty liver
disease (NAFLD), which can boost their odds for heart disease, researchers
report.
Obesity may interfere with prostate cancer screen
(Reuters)
 Reuters - The test commonly used to
screen men for prostate cancer may be more likely to miss
tumors in obese men, a new study suggests.
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