Category: obesity
Fewer carbs, fewer pounds?
If French fries come from potatoes, and potatoes are a vegetable, and vegetables are good for you, then what’s the harm in eating French fries?
By: Christopher Mele
Potatoes rank near the bottom of healthful vegetables and lack the compounds and nutrients found in green leafy vegetables, he said. If you take a potato, remove its skin (where at least some nutrients are found), cut it, deep fry the pieces in oil and top it all off with salt, cheese, chili or gravy, that starch bomb can be turned into a weapon of dietary destruction.
Pedal desks “could have the potential to achieve public and occupational health goals in sedentary work environments.”
Because of their high energy content, many people have believed the misconception that nuts cause unwanted weight gain, and avoid them altogether!
Genetically-modified humans: what is CRISPR and how does it work?
CRISPR, pronounced ‘crisper’, stands for Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeat. The name refers to the way short, repeated DNA sequences in the genomes of bacteria and other microorganisms are organised. An insight into the gene editing technique that could help eradicate health conditions and bring back the woolly mammoth.
Growing old and losing our freedom is something we as a whole dread.
In any case, specialists now guarantee they have discovered five “superfoods” that can help ladies through the maturing procedure.Researchers now realize that both organic and natural variables assume an imperative part by they way we create and age and even in deciding our danger of maladies like growth, cardiovascular sickness, and sort 2 diabetes. This quickly developing territory of logical study is alluded to as epigenetics.
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The ‘good’ life can help cut out tumor odds up to 45 percent and risk of cancer death up to 61 percent, study finds!
A healthy way of life that incorporates a good exercise schedule and eating nutritiously can bring down your danger of developing many cancers by as much as 45 percent, another study finishes up confirming this natural,strong evidence.
FDA bans trans fats-doughnuts, and baked goods including cakes, pie crusts, biscuits, frozen pizza, cookies, crackers, and stick margarines and other spreads
“A key concern is that many consumers may eat more than one serving of a food with minimal amounts of trans fat and that could add up to a signi cant amount,”
Are you living in a food desert?
“Food Deserts: Fellow Jon Caswell at AHA describes these as areas of low income in Unites States (urban neighborhoods) more than a mile from a supermarket, healthy options may be scarce.” A key goal of First Lady Michelle Obama’s “Let’s Move” campaign is to eradicate food deserts by providing incentives to encourage supermarkets to open in these neighborhoods.