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People who eat chocolate regularly tend to be thinner, new research suggests.
The findings come from a study of nearly 1,000 US people that looked at diet, calorie intake and body mass index (BMI) – a measure of obesity.
It found those who ate chocolate a few times a week were, on average, slimmer than those who ate it occasionally.
Even though chocolate is loaded with calories, it contains ingredients that may favour weight loss rather than fat synthesis, scientists believe. [Read more...]
Have you resolved to lose weight? Do you think thin = healthy = not eating? Get real! Eating right can help you knock off those extra pounds.
So have you taken care of your annual donation to the gym knowing that you’re never going to step into it? Paying that gym membership makes you think “I’ll make it some day”. But let’s face it; most of us can barely make the time to draw a deep breath, let alone find a couple of hours, that includes fighting traffic and finding parking space, to work out. Also many have a mental block about the gym and your body will never respond to anything you force it into. So what do you do? You learn to compensate. By eating; only this time correctly. [Read more...]
While there’s been anecdotal evidence floating around for a long time that exercise can help women achieve sexual satisfaction, a new study’s gone and proved it; exercising the core abdominal muscles alone can bring females to orgasm.
The research, conducted by Debby Herbenick from Indiana University, shows that these exercise-induced orgasms are most regularly associated with abdominal exercises, climbing poles or ropes, biking and weight lifting. Digging down into the data reveals that 20 per cent of women who experience orgasm brought about by exercise can’t control their experience, and the majority of them “were not fantasising sexually or thinking about anyone they were attracted to during their experiences”. [Read more...]
If you struggle to curb your chocolate cravings or can’t resist one more biscuit, forget working on your willpower. It could be time to look for another job.
Women who are over-worked or bored with their career are more likely to comfort eat, a study has found.
Fed-up females seek solace in emotional eating and “uncontrolled eating” – or in other words, not stopping until the last biscuit has gone from the packet.
The Finnish researchers claim that doctors trying to help women lose weight should assess whether their working life has left them burnt out before they start dishing out dieting advice. [Read more...]
Eating white rice could increase the risk of developing Type 2 diabetes, Harvard researchers claimed.
Each large serving of white rice was linked to an 11 percent increased risk, scientists from the Harvard School of Public Health concluded from an analysis of four studies carried out in China, Japan, Australia and the U.S.
The study authors wrote in the British Medical Journal, “We found that higher white rice consumption was associated with a significantly elevated risk of Type 2 diabetes. This association seems to be stronger for Asians than for Western populations.” [Read more...]
New research suggests high amounts of saturated fat may reduce semen quality in men
Everyone knows saturated fat is bad in high amounts — it might even kill you.
A new study suggests that fat may also damage semen quality among men.
A preliminary study published online in the medical journal Human Reproduction, suggests that men who intake higher amounts of omega-3 polyunsaturated fats, like the ones found in fish and plant oils, have better-formed sperm than those who don’t. [Read more...]
Diets high in saturated fat are bad for waistlines, but they can also have a negative impact below the waist. They may lower sperm count and sperm concentration, according to a new study published in the journal Human Reproduction.
Researchers from Massachusetts General Hospital, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School collected semen samples from 99 mostly overweight or obese men and assessed their diets by asking them how often over the previous year they had certain foods and beverages. [Read more...]