LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- If you like to work out, and want to cut more calories from your diet, you may try turning up the...
Coffee Break: Compound Brewing New Research In Colon, Breast CancerSource: Texas A&M AgriLife Communications Researcher says no concerns about drinking coffee at this point COLLEGE STATION A compound in coffee has been found to be estrogenic in studies by Texas AgriLife Research...
Fasting on alternate days may make dieting easierWEDNESDAY, Nov. 11 (HealthDay News) -- To get down to a healthy weight, obese and overweight people often struggle to cut their daily caloric intake by a necessary 15 percent to 40...
Teen Obesity Ups MS Risk in WomenBy Serena Gordon, HealthDay Reporter TUESDAY, Nov. 10 (HealthDay News) -- While there are plenty of good reasons to avoid obesity in your teens, a new study now suggests that extra weight in adolescence may increase your risk of multiple sclerosis (MS)...
Milk may not be as good as advertisedSkeptics try to steer us away from herd...
Green tea may help prevent oral cancerTHURSDAY, Nov. 5 (HealthDay News) -- A new study appears to add to growing evidence that green tea might help protect against cancer. U.S. researchers gave 41 volunteers with pre-malignant mouth lesions green tea extract for three months at doses of 500 milligrams per meter squared (mg/m2), 750 mg/m2 or 1...
TV Bombards Children with Commercials for High-Fat and High-Sugar Foods: Children s networks exposed young viewers to 76% more food commercials per hour than other networksChildhood obesity in the United States is reaching epidemic proportions. With more than one fourth of advertising on daytime and prime time television devoted to foods and beverages and continuing questions about the role television plays in obesity, a study in the November/December issue of the Journal...
Is smoking tougher on women?By Kathleen Doheny, HealthDay Reporter SUNDAY, Oct. 25 (HealthDay News) -- Women may be more vulnerable than men to the carcinogens and other noxious substances in cigarette smoke, a growing body of research...
Upping Fiber Intake Could Help Defeat Belly FatEating just a little bit more fiber could have a big impact in trimming the waistlines of America's young people, new research shows. Latino adolescents and teens who increased their fiber intake over a two-year period had significant decreases in the amount of fat around their waists, while young people...
Let kids sleep late on weekends to fight fat: study© iStockphoto.com/Michael Krinke By David Freeman, HealthDay Reporter WEDNESDAY, Oct. 28 (HealthDay News) -- Letting children sleep late on weekends and holidays might help them avoid becoming overweight or obese, a new study...