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Doubling up to limit weight gain: Improving diet and exercise together provides the more effective route, study finds
Improving diet and increasing physical activity levels together may be more effective at preventing weight gain-particularly harmful fat inside the abdomen-than just changing one of these behaviors, new research from the University of Cambridge suggests.
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Healthy Nordic diet good for both type 2 diabetes and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease
Although some of the beneficial effects of the healthy Nordic diet could be explained by the participants' weight loss, the researchers found that weight loss only explained just over half (56%) of the effect on liver fat.
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Metabolism, not just weight, improved when older adults reduced ultra-processed food intake
A controlled feeding study out of South Dakota State University shows that older adults who ate fewer ultra-processed foods naturally consumed fewer calories, lost weight and abdominal fat
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Do You Need to Take Supplements If You Eat a Healthy Diet?
Vitamin supplements are a big business, with Americans spending roughly $45 billion out of more than $177 billion worldwide on pills, gummies and powders meant to boost health.
How to Quit and Stay Off Vaping
Vaping is inhaling nicotine particles with an electronic cigarette, or e-cigarette. While vaping avoids many contaminants found in cigarette smoke, vaping still exposes you to risk, including exposure to harmful chemicals and toxins that can cause cancer. And it's not currently approved as a cigarette replacement.
