Archive for June, 2012
Study Finds Eating Nuts Helps Cholesterol
Eating about two and a half airplane snacks’ worth of nuts every day helps lower total cholesterol and “bad” LDL cholesterol, and improves the ratio of total cholesterol to “good” HDL cholesterol, a study reports. Researchers pooled the results of 25 clinical trials that involved 583 participants over all. The study reported that eating just 2.4 ounces of nuts of [...]
Effects of Raw Milk vs. Pasteurized Milk
Effects of Raw Milk vs. Pasteurized Milk on Lactose Maldigestion and Symptoms of Lactose Intolerance Among Lactose Intolerant Adults. Background: An increasing number of Americans are choosing to consume raw, unpasteurized milk rather than conventional pasteurized milk. Several health claims are made by raw milk enthusiasts. Many or most of those claims are anecdotal and remain [...]
How to Maximize Weight Loss with hCG
While the average user loses 1-2 pounds of fat per day during the hCG diet, there are certain tactics that can be used to speed up results and amplify weight loss. HCGBlog.com has combined the most effective strategies based on years of visitor feedback to create a guide to help users augment their overall results using the [...]
Raspberry Ketone Supplement Shown To Have Antiobesity Effect
Although published for many years the NLM National Institutes of Health study on the RK compound did not become popular until just recently when a popular daytime television Doctor exposed the RK compound for its weight loss properties. The study, “Raspberry ketone increases both lipolysis and fatty acid oxidation in 3T3-L1 adipocytes”, found herehttp://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20425690showed that [...]
Low-Carb Diets Can Raise Heart Risk
Bread lovers, rejoice: There’s yet another reason to skip a low-carb, high-protein, high-fat diet. Eating more fat and protein and less carbohydrates might lead to an increase in cholesterol and risk for cardiovascular disease, a 25-year study of 140,000 Swedish adults found. An effort to eat low-carb didn’t improve study participants’ body mass index (BMI), either: After adjusting for [...]
Study Finds Regular Consumption of Berries Slows Memory Decline
A recent study has found that people who include berries in their weekly diets show reduced rates of memory decline. Conducted by researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School and the first long-term, large-scale epidemiological study of its kind, the research discovered that consuming as little as one serving of blueberries per [...]
Lack of sleep associated with multiple health risks
The 30% of working adults who routinely sleep less than six hours a night are four times more likely to suffer a stroke, says a new study. The findings are the first to link insufficient sleep to stroke; they’re also the first to apply even to adults who keep off extra pounds and have no [...]
Study says too much running could be bad for your health
Plenty of people take up marathon running to stay in shape. But a new study finds, in some cases, too much running could be bad for your health. Alyssa Downing of Minneapolis was running around Lake Calhoun on Tuesday because she said, “I have a half marathon on the books in Chicago so I’m getting [...]
Eating White Fish Benefits Heart Health, Reduces Weight
Frequent consumption of white fish, such as hake, improves blood pressure, lowers cholesterol and reduces weight, according to a study conducted by researchers at the Nutrition & Obesity Unit of Hospital Ramón y Cajal in Madrid. Thirteen Spanish public hospitals participated in the study to examine whether white fish is an adequate source of dietary [...]
Study: To much Exercise Is Bad for Some People
Could exercise actually be bad for some healthy people? A well-known group of researchers, including one who helped write the scientific paper justifying national guidelines that promote exercise for all, say the answer may be a qualified yes. By analyzing data from six rigorous exercise studies involving 1,687 people, the group found that about 10 [...]
