Are you looking for a magic pill to lose weight? If so, you will most likely be sadly disappointed. WebMD reports on results from 30 trials that show people who took prescription weight loss medications lose only a small portion of the weight they wanted to lose. Plus, many of the people don’t even stick with the drugs.
Supplements have their place, but too many people look at them as a be all, end all, instead of paying attention to the actual meaning of the word: Supplement… in addition to.
Can eating fish make you smarter? It’s not a new hypothesis, but there are three new studies that continue to support this brain-boosting theory.
Studies from Norway, Holland, and New Zealand support that the consumption of omega-3 fatty acids in fish may improve cognitive performance. Even though the evidence is not absolutely conclusive that you will be smarter, it’s still smart to eat fish for its other health benefits, particularly its being a great lean protein source.
MSNBC.com has an interesting food quiz posted online. Steak vs. salmon, apples vs. bananas… Test your knowledge of how these foods and others stack up against each other. You’re issued a score similar to a conventional school grade.
When you’re looking to lose weight, what’s the first thing that you think of? How many calories do I need to get down to on a daily basis? Or, should I look to restrict my carb intake?
We usually think about what goes in our mouth. But it may be time to think about your mental health as well.
According to new research, emotional eaters usually lose less and have the hardest time keeping off whatever weight they do lose.
“Our results suggest that we need to pay more attention to eating triggered by emotions or thoughts as they clearly play a significant role in weight loss,” said Heather Niemeier of Brown University, whose study appears in the journal Obesity.
Niemeier and her colleagues focused on people who ate because of external influences (eating too much at parties) and internal influences (loneliness or using food as a reward).
Overeating is a complex set of circumstances that range from psychological to simple ignorance about the foods we eat. But, what if when it’s all said and done, doctors could simply turn off your hunger like a light switch?
The answer could lie in a molecule known as MIC-1.
Australian scientists have figured out how to switch hunger on and off using MIC-1. The discovery could stop weight loss in terminally ill patients or produce weight loss in the morbidly obese. MIC-1 is produced by cancers and targets receptors in the brain that switch off appetite.
Sam Breit at St Vincent’s Centre for Immunology, who originally cloned the MIC-1 gene, believes the findings could have a significant impact on a range of appetite-related disorders.
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