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Exercise beneficial to counteract harmful health effects of regaining weight

Exercise beneficial to counteract harmful health effects of regaining weight

By Health News Team • Mar 8th, 2010 • Category: General Health, True Health News, Weight Loss

Healthcare practitioners often prescribe exercise to help people lose weight and reduce their risk of weight-related diseases including diabetes, cardiovascular disease and the cluster of risk factors known as metabolic syndrome (MetS). But keeping the weight off is a challenge for many. Now, a new study suggests that exercising during weight regain can maintain improvements in metabolic health and disease risk.

Expert offers grocery store shopping strategy to control weight

Expert offers grocery store shopping strategy to control weight

By Health News Team • Mar 1st, 2010 • Category: Muscle Pain, True Health News, Weight Loss

Having a game plan when you enter a supermarket may help you stick to your list and buy healthier foods. Avoiding the aisles and shopping mainly around the perimeter of the store may help individuals with weight loss as well, according to registered dietician Gaye Lynn Hicks of the Methodist Weight Management Center in Houston.

New supplement has potential to burn calories

New supplement has potential to burn calories

By Mark Vavoulis • Feb 9th, 2010 • Category: True Health News, Weight Loss

A new weight loss supplement tested at the University of Oklahoma has the potential to burn as many calories as a 20-minute walk, according to researchers.

Study links drinking tea to smaller waistlines in men

Study links drinking tea to smaller waistlines in men

By Sandra Cooper • Feb 3rd, 2010 • Category: True Health News, Weight Loss

Men who want to trim down their midsection may want to consider swapping their coffee habit for tea, according to the findings of a new study.

Study suggests complex diets are harder to stick to

Study suggests complex diets are harder to stick to

By Mark Vavoulis • Jan 19th, 2010 • Category: True Health News, Weight Loss

Losing weight isn’t just a matter of willpower or dedication, according to a new study. Researchers have found that the perceived complexity of a diet plan’s rules and requirements can mean success or failure when it comes to weight loss.

Holistic weight loss may help individuals keep resolutions

Holistic weight loss may help individuals keep resolutions

By Mark Vavoulis • Jan 13th, 2010 • Category: True Health News, Weight Loss

Some health experts say that fad diets and other extreme measures some individuals use to lose weight simply don’t work. Instead, they say that taking a holistic approach to weight loss can help many people shed those excess pounds they’ve resolved to lose in the new year.

Can attitude affect weight?

Can attitude affect weight?

By Mark Vavoulis • Dec 9th, 2009 • Category: True Health News, Weight Loss

Like many things, gaining – and losing – weight may be a matter of mind over matter, according to the findings of a recent study.

Study identifies successful weight loss strategies for adolescents

Study identifies successful weight loss strategies for adolescents

By Sandra Cooper • Dec 7th, 2009 • Category: True Health News, Weight Loss

A new study has identified what really works when it comes to successful weight loss for young people.

Study finds fewer televisions at home important for weight loss

Study finds fewer televisions at home important for weight loss

By Mark Vavoulis • Nov 4th, 2009 • Category: True Health News, Weight Loss

A new study finds people with fewer televisions and more exercise equipment at home are more successful at losing weight and keeping it off.

Are podcasts effective for weight loss?

Are podcasts effective for weight loss?

By Mark Vavoulis • Oct 27th, 2009 • Category: True Health News, Weight Loss

It’s a modern-day approach to an old-fashioned problem: using a podcast to lose weight. And researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill say these high-tech advice dispensers can be effective, if they contain the proper information and present it in the right way.