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Diet, not exercise, ‘is the key to weight loss’
Changing dietary habits is the key to losing weight, not exercise, an expert has claimed. Speaking at the British Science Festival in Birmingham last week, professor John Speakman, director of the institute of biological and environmental sciences at the University of Aberdeen, suggested that people overestimate the effects of exercise. Professor Jonathan Pinkney, expert in….
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Sequence ‘alters people’s calorie estimations’
The sequence in which people are shown items of food affects the amount of calories they estimate are in each piece, a study has shown, which could interest those embarking on a diet to lose weight. Published in the Journal of Consumer Research, the study involved asking a group of people to guess how many….
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Healthy diet ‘can prevent kidney stones’
People who eat a healthy diet to lose weight may be unaware that they are also reducing their risk of developing kidney stones. Researchers from Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, and Maine Medical Center found that a diet that is high in fruits, vegetables, nuts and legumes, dairy products and whole grains but….
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Milk ‘helps dieters to lose weight’
People struggling to reach their weight loss goals should consider drinking more milk, a new study has suggested. The research, published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, took two years to complete and found that those who drank around two glasses of milk lost an average of nearly 12lbs in weight. More than 300….
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Hormone levels ‘could predict weight regain’
Many people know the frustration of putting weight back on after they have lost it, but a new study has shown that this could be predicted by measuring hormone levels. The results of work conducted by researchers from University of Santiago in Spain show how the hormones leptin and ghrelin affect weight regain after weight….
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People working long hours ‘tend to have poor diets’
People who have a job that requires them to work long hours tend to have poor diets and, therefore, could be physically unhealthy, Men's Health Forum has claimed. Peter Baker, chief executive of the forum, said that the end of the traditional lunch hour has had a negative effect on workers' physical and mental health…..
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One-size-fits-all diets ‘do not cater for individual needs’
One-size-fits-all diets do not fully cater for the varied needs of the individuals who are on them, according to Foods for Life. Yvonne Bishop-Weston, nutritionist at Foods for Life, also said that these mass-marketed diets rarely take into account any underlying medical conditions that people may have. These could include hidden digestive disorders, food intolerance….
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20% of women ‘are constantly on a diet’
Some 20 per cent of women have admitted to constantly being on one diet or another, recent research has revealed. Conducted by weight loss programme Jenny Craig, the study also revealed that 89 per cent of UK women have tried to lose weight at some point in their lives. A further 60 per cent of….
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Fatty foods ‘negatively affect sleep’
Those who eat fatty foods tend to sleep less than those who have healthier diets, a study has shown. Published in the September 1st issue of the journal Sleep, the research suggests that people who sleep for less than eight hours a night could have an increased obesity risk. A lack of sleep can cause….
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Baby-boomers ‘pass on bad lifestyle habits to grandchildren’
Baby-boomers are passing on bad lifestyle habits to their grandchildren, which is increasing the prevalence of obesity, an expert has suggested. Dr Melinda Sothern, a paediatric weight expert from Louisiana State University's Health Sciences Center, has published a paper on the subject. She claims that prenatal tobacco use, infant formula, and frequent pregnancies created "the….
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