Archive for September, 2010
Morbidly obese man achieves 200lb weight loss
A man who was diagnosed as morbidly obese has managed to lose 200lbs with the aid of a chocolate diet. Peter Ajello, who was 32 stone at his heaviest, shed half of his body weight in just 16 months. He used to eat around 24,000 calories a day but reduced this dramatically after he had….
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People ‘should be offered incentives to lose weight’
Offering incentives to people to lose weight would be an effective way of improving the general health of the UK's population, an advisory group has suggested. The majority of the members of the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence's (Nice) independent Citizens Council voted in favour of the introduction of such schemes. They did,….
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Sports beverages ‘hamper people’s weight loss plans’
Those who have adopted a regime of eating well and exercising regularly in order to lose weight are negatively impacting their health by drinking lots of sports beverages, a study has suggested. Researchers from the Michael & Susan Dell Center for Healthy Living at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) found….
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Consistent exercise ‘maintains metabolic health following weight loss’
People who have lost weight can find it hard to keep it off, but exercising regularly will help these slimmers to maintain the health benefits they gained by shedding the pounds, a study has suggested. Losing weight can reduce metabolic syndrome – a cluster of risk factors related to diabetes and heart disease – and….
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Anthony Hopkins loses 5st through dieting
Hollywood star Anthony Hopkins has managed to lose 5st in weight through sticking to a harsh diet. The Silence of the Lambs actor reduced his calory intake to 1,800 a day, which is 700 less than the recommended daily average. He also embarked on a strict fitness regime, hitting the gym six days a week…..
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Vitamin D ‘protects obese women from endometrial cancer’
Losing weight is one of the best ways an obese person can reduce their risk of developing cancer, but taking vitamin D supplements can also have the same effect, a study has suggested. Researchers from the Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center found that these supplements can prevent obese women from developing endometrial cancer. The scientists….
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Watching TV ‘makes teens overweight’
People trying to prevent their children from becoming overweight should stop them from watching too much TV, playing lots of video games and using the internet very frequently, a study has suggested. The University of Montreal and the Sainte-Justine Hospital Research Center evaluated 744 teenagers, recording their screen time and their level of physical activity…..
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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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